Technical Staff Engineer – Emulation

Microchip Technology Inc.

Technical Staff Emulation Engineer leading ASIC emulation strategies for Data Center Storage products at Microchip. Collaborating with internal teams and customers to innovate next-generation technology.

Posted 6/12/2026full-timeSan Jose • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $91,000 - $232,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Flash

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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.
Staying current on the latest SOC trends and innovations and incorporating them into emulation flows.
Develop Simulation Acceleration testbenches using Cadence Palladium flow and Support emulation bring up and post silicon debug.
Work on Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) based testbench architecture, test plan development, simulation and coverage.
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

What you’ll need

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

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive base pay
Restricted stock units
Quarterly bonus payments
Health benefits that begin day one
Retirement savings plans
Industry leading ESPP program with a 2 year look back feature

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Hard Skills & Tools

ASIC developmentemulationsimulation accelerationtestbench architectureBus Functional Models (BFM)C programmingdebuggingverification flowdesign variantsproblem solving

Soft Skills

communication skillsteamworktime managementability to work under pressuredesire to excel

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Electrical EngineeringBachelor's degree in Computer EngineeringMaster’s degree in Electrical EngineeringMaster’s degree in Computer Engineering