Principal Engineer - Firmware

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Job Description:

Microchip Data Center Solutions(DCS) Group vision is to connect, manage and secure the world's information by delivering innovative solutions for storage, memory & compute connectivity and end-point solutions aligned to market transitions.

Our mission is to be the preferred partner for storage, memory, connectivity and end-point storage solutions for the world's data centers including AI infrastructure.

Microchip being one of the major suppliers of  SAS/SATA Expanders and SAS/SATA/NVMe Storage controllers, is seeking for highly skilled and experienced firmware development engineer, who will be joining a team of professionals in developing software and Real-Time Firmware solutions for state-of-art System-on-Chip (SoC) devices with embedded MIPS processors.

Successful applicant will report to Manager of Firmware Engineering and will collaborate with Cross Geo teams to design, develop, debug and support a wide variety of Storage controllers and expanders.

Key Responsibilities:

Your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to the following:

• Design and Develop firmware/device drivers/software for MIPS processor powered solutions using C and assembly language.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex software problems in embedded real-time systems.
• Participate in detailed design and code reviews of implementations by team
• Participate as a senior technical member of the team in the technical analysis and designing of storage software solutions involving SAS/SATA expanders, SATA/SAS/NVMe RAID controller technologies and Network Storage architectures.
• Work in collaboration with other Microchip sites to design solutions and resolve customer issues
• Support current product and guide next generation product to production.
• 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.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Electronics/Computer Science Engineering or related technical majors

• 10+ years of firmware development experience in embedded systems.

• 8+ years of experience with one or more storage protocols such as NVMe and thorough knowledge of PCIe interface.

• 8+ years of experience in for Storage technologies or demonstrated comparable experience.

• Extensive working knowledge of storage firmware design and implementation.

• Demonstrated ability to conceive, design, implement and document complex firmware systems.

• Experience in developing device drivers for peripheral protocols like GPIO, I2C, SPI, etc

• Experience in GreenHills probe is added advantage.

• Demonstrated knowledge in use of protocol analyzers and debug tools.

• Exposure to Storage Security features (Encryption algorithms, SPDM, Hash algorithms) are added advantage

• Exposure to Network protocols are added advantage

• Effective communicator of technical ideas using verbal as well as written skills

• Effective Team Player

• Highly motivated, sets personal goals, and achieves goals without supervision.

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