Technical Staff Engineer - Emulation

Job Description

Microchip’s Data Center Solutions (DCS) Business Unit offers industry-leading performance, reliability, and security for Storage Controllers, PCIe Switches, and NVMe solutions. As a Technical Staff Emulation Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for our Enterprise Flash Controller product line. You will be responsible for architecting and executing emulation strategies for complex $300M+$ gate devices that power next-generation data centers and accelerators.

Responsibilities

• Develop our next generation Data Center Storage products, including enterprise class NVMe Solid State Drive (SSD) controllers and other PCIe based products
• Provide technical leadership through all phases of silicon ASIC development
• Work with industry standard protocols such as PCIe, ONFI, AMBA AXI, SAS and DDR4/5 and third party Accelerated Verification IPs (AVIPs)
• Evaluate emulation platforms and provide recommendations
• Build and maintain emulation platforms with design variants
• Support emulation activities in pre and post silicon development phases
• Stay current on the latest SOC trends and innovations and incorporate them into emulation flows
• Develop Simulation Acceleration testbenches using Cadence Palladium flow
• Support emulation bring up and post silicon debug
• Develop C based testcases at full chip and review of architectural and micro architecture specifications
• Develop synthesizable Bus Functional Models (BFM) for various protocols and interfaces used in SoC design and emulation
• Debug and root cause design, testbench and emulation platform related issues

Requirements/Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer engineering (Master’s degree preferred)
• 12+ years of relevant industry experience in ASIC development, emulation
• Excellent problem solving and debugging skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Teamwork and time management skills, setting direction, the ability to work under pressure and the desire to excel in a competitive environment
• Experience with all aspects of the SoC/ASIC emulation, and verification flow
• Experience with PCIe based Enterprise Flash Controller design
• Experience with emulation platforms, preferably Cadence Palladium and Protium emulation platforms
• Experience with ARM, RISC-V and/or MIPS CPUs is an asset
• Experience with PCIe, DDR, and ONFI/Toggle NAND is desired
• Experience with on-chip interconnect and cache coherency

Physical Attributes

• Finding, Hearing, Other, Seeing, Talking, Works Alone, Works Around Others
• Sitting: 80%, Walking: 10%, Standing: 10%

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.

Benefits

• Health benefits that begin day one
• Retirement savings plans
• An industry leading ESPP program with a 2 year look back feature

Equal Opportunity Employer

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 Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal Poster.