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Want to join a 17,000-member team that works on the technology that powers the world around us? Looking for an atmosphere of trust, empowerment, respect, diversity, and communication? How about an opportunity to own a piece of a multi-billion dollar (with a B!) global organization? We offer all that and more at Microchip Technology Inc.\nPeople come to work at Microchip because we help design the technology that runs the world. They stay because our culture supports their growth and stability. They are challenged and driven by an incredible array of products and solutions with unlimited career potential. Microchip’s nationally-recognizedLeadership Passage Programs support career growth where we proudly enroll over a thousand people annually. We take pride in our commitment to employee development, values-based decision making, and strong sense of community, driven by our Vision, Mission, and 11 Guiding Values; we affectionately refer to it as the Aggregate System and it’s won us countless awards for diversity and workplace excellence.\nOur company is built by dedicated team players who love to challenge the status quo; we did not achieve record revenue and over 30 years of quarterly profitability without a great team dedicated to empowering innovation. People like you.\nVisit our careers page to see what exciting opportunities and company perks await!\nJob Description:\nHelp define the next generation of Microchip's precision analog and mixed-signal products. The Mixed Signal & Linear Division builds the complete precision signal chain: op amps, comparators, voltage references, current-sense amplifiers, ADCs, DACs, and digital potentiometers. One applications team supports all of it.\nAs a Principal Applications Engineer, you'll drive device specifications, work with design engineering on architecture trade-offs, and bring a system-level view of the customer to products that ship for 10+ years. We're looking for depth in either precision linear/analog or data converters, and an understanding of how the two work together. Depending on your background, your initial focus will be either ADCs (primarily SAR) or linear products such as op amps, comparators, voltage references, and current-sense amplifiers. From there you'll have room to broaden across the signal chain and a clear path to product-family ownership.\nThe position works closely with product marketing, architecture, design engineering, product engineering, validation, and test throughout the new-product-development lifecycle. It also supports sustaining and lifecycle activities for assigned devices.\nCore responsibilities\nDefinition\nAuthor and maintain device specifications for assigned new products and derivatives. Drive them through defined milestones, capturing product goals, key features, specifications, and application requirements.\n\nTranslate customer needs, market input, and application use cases into clear requirements and key specification parameters, including the specs that can't be compromised.\n\nWork with design engineering during early specification phases to evaluate architecture trade-offs and refine block-level definitions.\n\nApplication evaluation and system enablement\nPerform hands-on application-level evaluation of new silicon, testing device functionality in real-world use cases and reference circuits from the customer's perspective. Feed findings back to design, validation, and product teams ahead of release.\n\nDesign, review, and bring up reference and evaluation hardware, with a focus on complete signal-chain solutions (sensor front end, amplification, reference, conversion).\n\nDevelop application collateral: application notes, design guides, reference designs, and evaluation board documentation. Support simulation-model releases (SPICE macromodels, behavioral models) for accuracy in application use.\n\nWrite and review datasheets and spec-derived collateral for technical accuracy and consistency ahead of product release.\n\nCustomer and team\nResolve complex, escalated design issues with customers and field applications teams.\n\nDeliver technical training on product operation and system-level signal-chain design.\n\nProvide technical guidance to junior applications engineers.\n\nRequirements/Qualifications:\nMinimum Qualifications\nBSEE, MSEE, or PhD with 10+ years of experience in analog/mixed-signal applications, design, validation, or systems engineering\n\nDeep hands-on expertise in at least one of the following:\nPrecision linear/analog: op amps, comparators, voltage references, current-sense amplifiers. Includes stability and compensation, noise, offset and drift, input/output stage trade-offs, and capacitive-load behavior\n\nData converters: SAR and/or delta-sigma ADCs, DACs. Includes input drive and settling, reference design, anti-aliasing, and converter metrics (INL/DNL, ENOB, SNR/SFDR/THD)\n\nWorking knowledge of the other area as it applies to precision signal-chain design (for example, how amplifier and reference choices affect converter performance)\n\nExperience contributing to product requirements or device definition\n\nSolid bench evaluation and debug skills with standard lab instrumentation; experience with PCB design and hardware bring-up\n\nProficiency with SPICE simulation and tools for circuit analysis and design verification\n\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, including technical documentation such as datasheets and application notes\n\nAble to manage multiple projects, work independently, and collaborate across teams\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nDepth in both linear/analog and data converters\n\nEmbedded programming for MCU-based device evaluation over standard serial interfaces (e.g., SPI, QSPI, I2C, I3C)\n\nData analysis or lab automation (Python, MATLAB)\n\nAnalog mixed-mode simulation (AMS), behavioral modeling, or SPICE macromodel development\n\nDirect technical engagement with customers (design-in support, requirements discovery, training)\n\nPublished application notes or articles, or experience delivering technical workshops\n\nDomain knowledge in an end market such as industrial, energy metering, medical, or automotive\n\nTravel Time:\n0% - 25%Physical Attributes:\nHearing, Seeing, Talking, Works Alone, Works Around OthersPhysical Requirements:\n10% Standing 90% Sitting 100% InsideMicrochip Technology Incis an equal opportunity/affirmativeaction employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.\nFor more information on applicable equal employment regulations, please refer to the Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal Poster.\nTo all recruitment agencies: Microchip Technology Inc. does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our recruiting team or other Microchip employees. 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