Principal Engineer – Applications

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Job Description:

Microchips Data Center Solutions Business Unit (DCS) offers industry leading performance reliability and security for PCIe Switches Smart Storage Controllers RAID Controllers SAS/SATA IO Controllers SAS Expanders and NVME Controllers.

The candidate will join the rapidly growing Data Center Solutions (DCS) business unit at Microchip. DCS has a broad portfolio of products being broadly deployed today by the industrys cutting-edge server/storage OEMs and hyperscale datacenters. Customers deploy DCS solutions into applications ranging from Big Data capacity storage to artificial intelligence and machine learning that are helping to shape the next digital age. Our product portfolio includes SAS/PCIe/NVMe/CXL products that connect manage and secure the worlds information including Flash Controllers High Performance Switches RAID Controllers and Memory Controllers. Join a team where you can expand your skill set and drive key elements of the industrys technology leadership.

Our Applications Engineering Team is responsible for working closely with the Product Development Teams Product Validation Teams Marketing Teams and Sales Teams to enable our storage/data center customers to bring their solutions to the work with leading edge technology that gets deployed in data center machine-learning/AI and storage engage with customer engineering teams to assist in design wins product ramps and system production. We offer a challenging and dynamic working environment with opportunities to make substantial contributions toward the success of our business.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in EE CS or CE with 8 years of industry experience
• Strong software/firmware development and debug skills with focus on multi-threaded architecture
• Customer-facing experience with a focus on technical support and issue debug.
• C/C programming skills
• Experience writing test scripts using Perl/bash/python
• Good system level understanding from firmware-hardware interaction point of view
• Ability to effectively work and lead discussions in a cross-functional team environment across multiple geographical locations
• Experience with bench top equipment such as protocol analyzers/exercisers logic analyzers and other storage related test equipment
• Familiarity with storage networking concepts and protocols (PCIe SAS and SATA SCSI 10/100/1000 Ethernet TCP/IP)
• Strong technical leadership teamwork communication and presentation skills in a cross-functional global environment.

Desired Qualifications:

• Expertise in PCIe and SAS
• Experience with mass storage firmware and software
• Strong system design skills
• Experience working with Marketing and Sales teams
• Project management experience
• Experience with RISC based embedded processors (MIPS preferred)
• Past work with Unix & Wintel drivers and experience in FW development with light weight embedded kernels (ThreadX VxWorks eCos etc.)
• Strong debugging skills and experience with kernel (Windbg) JTAG serial port
• Experience with board-level debug & bring-up
• Experience in the Storage Industry
• Comprehensive knowledge of computer system design server and storage system architecture microprocessors I/O interfaces electronics hardware development and basic programming (Python C).
• Skilled in debugging using lab equipment like multi-meters oscilloscopes and Linux utilities.

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