Technical Staff Engineer-Firmware
Microchip TechnologyBase Salary
$107k - $226k/yr
Responsibilities
- Analyze requirements and design, develop, integrate, debug, verify, and validate firmware, drivers, software components, unit-test frameworks, verification systems, and DevOps tools.
- Lead and participate in architecture, specification, design, implementation, code, and review activities.
- Collaborate with firmware, chip design, emulation, validation, and applications engineering teams on pre-silicon development and post-silicon bring-up, debugging, troubleshooting, and customer support.
- Investigate and resolve issues reported internally and by global customers in laboratory and field environments.
- Develop, review, and maintain engineering documentation and customer-facing technical materials.
- Mentor junior firmware engineers and contribute to process adherence and continuous improvement initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering.
- At least 15 years of Embedded Application Software or high-level Embedded Software development experience.
- Strong proficiency in C and at least one assembly language.
- Expertise in SoC, RTOS, multithreading, and SMP firmware development.
- Experience developing products using one or two high-speed protocols such as PCIe, CXL, InfiniBand, SAS/SATA, NVMe, Ethernet, or FC.
- Experience designing firmware for silicon products across emulation, validation, applications engineering, pre-silicon development, post-silicon bring-up, debugging, and troubleshooting.
- Strong research, analytical, problem-solving, documentation, communication, ownership, and collaboration abilities.
- Experience leveraging AI to assist firmware and software development is valued.
- Proven ability to lead cross-site teams and mentor engineers on complex firmware projects is valued.
Benefits
- Health benefits begin on the first day.
- Retirement savings plans and an employee stock purchase program with a six-month look-back feature are offered.
- The role requires 0%–25% travel.
- The package includes restricted stock units and quarterly bonus payments in addition to base pay.
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About Microchip Technology
Microchip Technology Inc. is a leading semiconductor supplier of smart, connected and secure embedded control solutions. Its easy-to-use development tools and comprehensive product portfolio enable customers to create optimal designs which reduce risk while lowering total system cost and time to market. The company’s solutions serve more than 125,000 customers across the industrial, automotive, consumer, aerospace and defense, communications and computing markets. Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, Microchip offers outstanding technical support along with dependable delivery and quality. For more information, visit the Microchip website at www.microchip.com. The content on our LinkedIn page may contain AI-generated imagery, performers and/or audio.