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 ofSAS / 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.

Travel Time : 0% - 25%

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