Technical Staff Engineer-Applications
Microchip Technology2 days ago
Burnaby, CanadaStaff+
Base Salary
$86k - $186k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead customer platform enablement for Switchtec PCIe switch products across data-center and AI platforms.
- Partner with hyperscale AI and global storage customers to define technical requirements, manage deliverables, and support systems from board bring-up through production release.
- Provide advanced technical support, platform-level debugging, root-cause analysis, firmware updates, software tools, hardware guides, and reference designs.
- Deliver technical training and presentations to field teams and customer engineering groups, and mentor junior engineers.
- Lead customer engagements and technical discussions to optimize system design, performance, reliability, integration, and lifecycle management.
- Collaborate with hardware, software, QA, product management, marketing, sales, and distributed engineering teams.
- Troubleshoot firmware and system-level issues using data-center-class debug workflows and laboratory equipment.
- Travel to customer sites as needed to debug systems and support deployments.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering.
- 8+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Working knowledge of PCI Express (PCIe).
- Strong software and firmware development skills, including debugging multithreaded architectures.
- Proficiency in C and C++; experience writing test scripts in Perl, Bash, or Python.
- Experience with UNIX and Windows driver development and firmware development on embedded operating systems such as ThreadX, VxWorks, or eCos.
- Customer-facing engineering experience involving technical support, issue analysis, and root-cause debugging.
- Hands-on experience with protocol analyzers, exercisers, logic analyzers, and storage-related test tools.
- Strong understanding of system-level firmware and hardware interactions.
- Preferred qualifications include storage-industry experience; experience with RISC-based embedded processors, preferably MIPS; kernel debugging tools such as WinDbg, JTAG, and serial interfaces; server and storage architecture knowledge; and laboratory debugging with multimeters, oscilloscopes, and Linux diagnostic utilities.
Benefits
- Annual base salary range of $86,000–$186,000.
- Total compensation includes restricted stock units and quarterly bonus payments.
- Health benefits begin on day one.
- Retirement savings plans and an employee stock purchase program with a six-month look-back feature are available.
- Position is based in Burnaby, Canada, with 0%–25% travel to customer sites.
About Microchip Technology
Microchip Technology designs and sells embedded control semiconductors—8/16/32‑bit microcontrollers and processors, analog and mixed‑signal ICs, FPGAs, connectivity devices, memory—and the development tools engineers use to build them into products across industrial, automotive, consumer, and aerospace/defense markets. The company also licenses Flash memory IP and provides software and reference designs. Founded in 1989, it is headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, and is publicly traded on NASDAQ (ticker: MCHP).