Principal Engineer - Firmware

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Microchip Technology Inc. is a leading provider of embedded control applications. Our product portfolio comprises general purpose and specialized 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit microcontrollers, 32-bit microprocessors, field-programmable gate array (FPGA) products, a broad spectrum of high-performance linear, mixed-signal, power management, thermal management, radio frequency (RF), timing, safety, security, wired connectivity and wireless connectivity devices, as well as serial Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM), Serial Flash memories, Parallel Flash memories, and serial Static Random Access Memory (SRAM).

We also license Flash-IP solutions that are incorporated in a broad range of products.

• Participate as a senior/technical lead member of the team in the technical analysis and integration of storage software involving SAS expander, SATA/SAS/RAID controller technologies and Network Storage architectures.
• Lead and mentor junior members
• Program MIPS processors using C and assembly language to implement core software/firmware components as well as device drivers.
• Work directly with customers in the development of their software solutions using Microsemi devices and software/firmware components
• Work in collaboration with other Microchip sites to design solutions and resolve customer issues
• Participate in detailed design and code reviews of implementations by team
• Sustain current product and guide next generation product to production.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex software problems in embedded real-time systems.
• Analyze software performance (cycle counts, cache utilization) of firmware.
• Write comprehensive engineering documentation.
• Present technical information to small teams of engineers and technical marketing personnel.

• Bachelors in Electrical Engineering or Bachelors in Computer Science or Math with emphasis in embedded processing.
• 10+ years of relevant experience
• 8.5+ years of software/firmware system development for Network Storage technologies or demonstrated comparable experience.
• 3+ years experience with one or more storage protocols such as SAS/SATA/SCSI/NVMe and thorough knowledge of PCIe interface.
• Detailed working knowledge of storage software/firmware design and implementation.
• Demonstrated ability to conceive, design, implement and document complex firmware systems.
• Demonstrated ability to complete software product development (through commercial release).
• Knowledgeable in use of tool chains and debug tools.
• Effective communicator of technical ideas using verbal as well as written skills
• Works well in a small team.
• Willingness to set and meet deadlines.
• Highly motivated, sets personal goals, and achieves goals without supervision.

• Have worked in storage network technologies.
• Previous experience developing on embedded system architecture (MIPS/ARMS/PPC).
• Experience writing drivers for embedded microprocessor peripherals such as UARTs, I2C, SPI and GPIO.
• Knowledge of Embedded Linux development as well as RTOS constructs including processes, threads, scheduling, synchronization mechanisms, memory management.
• Familiarity with protocol analyzer and tools is a plus.

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