Technical Staff Engineer – Applications

Microchip Technology Inc.

Technical Staff Engineer at Microchip, specializing in FPGA/SoC design and pre/post-sales support to tier1 customers. Engaging in technical consulting and training while driving product development and adoption.

Posted 6/24/2026full-timeSan Jose • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $91,000 - $232,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Linux

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Engage with our tier1 customers and our field teams to help with pre and post Sales support on design/debug of FPGA/SoC designs
Provide advanced-level consulting and technical support (remotely and on-site) to tier1 customers through product demonstrations, creation of design examples and reference designs, presenting advanced FPGA/SoC design and timing-closure techniques, debugging hardware bring-up issues
Demonstrate authority on all or most phases of FPGA/SoC design, including requirements analysis, HDL code development and simulation, embedded hard and soft processor system design, synthesis optimizations, place-route and timing constraints, timing closure, board-level schematic reviews, and FPGA hardware development and debug tools
Lead/participate in cross-functional teams across the BU, present proposals and get buy-ins to improve existing solutions or to develop solutions for future products
Participate in functional block reviews, product characterization and rollout, tools' ease-of-use discussions with senior Engineering and Marketing experts in the BU
Train field & technical support engineers with new Microchip FPGA/SoC products & tools
Drive early adoption & evaluation of advanced debugging & software flows, IP cores, and kits in the team
Create customer-facing collateral, application notes, reference designs, white papers on advanced interfaces and solutions for Microchip FPGA/SoC products

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering/Science; Masters degree is preferred
12+ years of relevant industry experience with FPGA-based architecture definition, design, and support, including Embedded Processor and High-Speed Serial IO
5+ years of experience with lab equipment such as oscilloscopes and signal analyzers
Advanced level domain expertise in one or more FPGA/SoC design/debug expertise - DDR memory interfaces and protocols, Transceiver and high speed serial interfaces, timing closure techniques, FPGA synthesis and simulation, Embedded Cortex or RISC-V processor/microcontrollers etc, Serdes and high-speed serial interfaces and protocols
Must have in-depth experience with FPGA devices and eco-systems from at least 1 major FPGA supplier (Microchip or Xilinx or Altera)
Must have embedded processor experience with knowledge of C, development on Linux, and software debug tools such as Keil, IAR or Eclipse
Experience with Libero, or Vivado or Quartus Design Software, as well as EDA tools for FPGA design is required
Board level experience including power supply decoupling, high speed signal terminations and routing
System level debug with the ability to dig into system level issues to assist clients in identifying the root cause
Expert level experience with VHDL/Verilog, C
Excellent communication & problem-solving skills, and ability to independently drive issues to closure
Hard-working and committed; ability to handle stress and multi-task in a dynamic customer-centric environment
Must be a self-starter and an excellent team-worker

Benefits

Comp & perks

health benefits that begin day one
retirement savings plans
industry leading ESPP program with a 2 year look back feature
competitive base pay
restricted stock units
quarterly bonus payments

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Hard Skills & Tools

FPGA designSoC designHDL code developmenttiming closure techniquesembedded processor designVHDLVerilogC programmingsystem level debughigh-speed serial interfaces

Soft Skills

communication skillsproblem-solving skillsteamworkself-starterability to handle stressmulti-taskingindependent issue resolutionleadershipcross-functional collaborationtraining and mentoring

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Electrical EngineeringBachelor's degree in Computer EngineeringBachelor's degree in Computer ScienceMaster's degree in relevant field