Principal Engineer

Principal Engineer – Applications

Join Microchip Technology Inc. as a Principal Engineer – Applications. This role focuses on designing and advancing data‑center solutions, including PCIe Switches, Smart Storage Controllers, RAID Controllers, SAS/SATA IO Controllers, SAS Expanders, and NVMe Controllers. You will work closely with product development, validation, marketing, and sales teams to enable our storage/data‑center customers to bring solutions to market.

Microchip’s 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 a rapidly growing DCS unit serving cutting‑edge server, storage, and hyperscale data‑center customers in applications ranging from Big Data capacity storage to AI and machine learning.

Our Applications Engineering Team collaborates with product development, validation, marketing, and sales to enable our customers to bring their solutions to market. We work with leading‑edge technology deployed in data center, machine‑learning/AI, and storage applications, engaging with customer engineering teams to assist in design wins, product ramps, and system production. The role offers a challenging, dynamic environment with opportunities to make substantial contributions to business success.

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

• 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 firmware development with lightweight embedded kernels (Thread
  
  X, VxWorks, eCos, etc.)
• Strong debugging skills and experience with kernel (Windbg), JTAG, and serial port debugging
• Experience with board‑level debugging and 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 such as multimeters, oscilloscopes, and Linux utilities

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We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry, including competitive base pay, restricted stock units, quarterly bonuses, health benefits, retirement plans, and an industry‑leading IESPP program. The annual base salary range for this position is $86,000–$186,000, dependent on job location, skills, and experience.

• Health benefits that begin on day one
• Retirement savings plans
• Comprehensive benefits package (details found on our careers page)
• Industry‑leading IESPP program with a 6‑month look‑back feature

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