Engineer I - Product

Are you looking for a unique opportunity to be a part of something great? Want to join a 20,000-member team that works on the technology that powers the world around us? Looking for an atmosphere of trust, empowerment, respect, diversity, and communication? How about an opportunity to own a piece of a multi-billion dollar (with a B!) global organization? We offer all that and more at Microchip Technology, Inc.

People come to work at Microchip because we help design the technology that runs the world. They stay because our culture supports their growth and stability. They are challenged and driven by an incredible array of products and solutions with unlimited career potential. Microchip’s nationally-recognized Leadership Passage Programs support career growth where we proudly enroll over a thousand people annually. We take pride in our commitment to employee development, values-based decision making, and strong sense of community, driven by our Vision, Mission, and 11 Guiding Values; we affectionately refer to it as the Aggregate System and it’s won us countless awards for diversity and workplace excellence.

Our company is built by dedicated team players who love to challenge the status quo; we did not achieve record revenue and over 30 years of quarterly profitability without a great team dedicated to empowering innovation. People like you.

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Job Description:

Microchip has been consistently recognized as one of the best places to work by prestigious publications like Forbes, Bay Area News and Phoenix Business Journal. The FPGA Business Unit (formerly Actel, with a 35+ year uninterrupted legacy of providing programmable logic solutions) is one of the largest and most profitable BUs inside Microchip. We have revolutionized the FPGA industry with the industry’s most awarded FPGA families - the PolarFire FPGA family and the first RISC-V based PolarFire SoC, delivering class leading power efficiency, reliability and security. With this portfolio, we have enabled commercial applications like the world’s most innovative AI-enabled embedded vision and smart automation products, the world’s most secure and reliable 5G communications networks, as well as the world’s most sophisticated aerospace products that have delivered payloads to Mars and beyond. If you are looking to be a part of a team that is transforming the world of low power compute whilst delivering exceptional top line growth rates, you will be challenged to find a better place to contribute, grow your career and learn to deliver truly remarkable solutions.

Microchip FPGA BU is looking for a talented, passionate and creative individual to join our new product development team. The candidate will support the Product Engineering group through the phases of releasing new products to the market from product validation to production ramp. The employee will be tasked with the following:

• Analyze production yields and yield limiters and solve manufacturing related issues.
• Manage production holds to enable customer production and revenue.
• Support Product Qualification of our next generation FPGA by testing and screening qualification lots.
• Statistical, electrical, and physical root cause failure analysis pre/post qualification.
• Validate on chip components such as micro-processors, high speed I/O’s (SERDES and DDR), eNVM, SRAM, charge pumps, PLL’s, and Analog I/O’s.
• Develop scripts and SOC designs to validate and test FPGA and SOC products.
• Analyze device behavior and characterize FPGA and SOC products in both production and engineering environment.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree/Master's degree in a related engineering discipline.
• 0-3 years experience in electrical engineering or computer science.
• Knowledge of solid state physics and microelectronics is required.
• Skilled with scripting languages like TCL/PERL/Python, C and C++ , and visual basic programming.
• Knowledge of RTL (Verilog or VDHL).
• Team player.
• Excellent communication.
• Result driven.
• Methodical and organized.

Travel Time:

0% - 25%

Physical Attributes:

Feeling, Hearing, Other, Reaching, Seeing, Talking, Works Alone, Works Around Others

Physical Requirements:

90% sitting 10% standing and 100% indoors.

Pay Range:

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive base pay, restricted stock units, and quarterly bonus payments. In addition to these components, our package includes health benefits that begin day one, retirement savings plans, and an industry leading ESPP program with a 2 year look back feature. Find more information about all our benefits at the link below:

Benefits of working at Microchip

The annual base salary range for this position, which could be performed in California, is $66,560 - $128,000.*

Microchip Technology Inc is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
For more information on applicable equal employment regulations, please refer to the EEO is the Law Poster and the EEO is the Law Poster Supplement. Please also refer to the Pay Transparency Policy Statement.