Senior Engineer II - Product

Are you looking for a unique opportunity to be a part of something great? 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.

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Job Description:

Microchip has been consistently recognized as one of the best places to work by prestigious publications like Forbes, Bay Area News and Phoenix Business Journal. The FPGA Business Unit (formerly Actel, with a 35+ year uninterrupted legacy of providing programmable logic solutions) is one of the largest and most profitable BUs inside Microchip. We have revolutionized the FPGA industry with the industry’s most awarded FPGA families - the PolarFire FPGA family and the first RISC-V based PolarFire SoC, delivering class leading power efficiency, reliability and security. With this portfolio, we have enabled commercial applications like the world’s most innovative AI-enabled embedded vision and smart automation products, the world’s most secure and reliable 5G communications networks, as well as the world’s most sophisticated aerospace products that have delivered payloads to Mars and beyond. If you are looking to be a part of a team that is transforming the world of low power compute whilst delivering exceptional top line growth rates, you will be challenged to find a better place to contribute, grow your career and learn to deliver truly remarkable solutions.

Product Engineering within the New Products Group (NPI) is a fast-paced and collaborative team dedicated to new product rollout. The role involves daily interaction with a wide range of cross-functional partners, including technology development engineers, circuit designers, logic designers (customers), applications engineers, as well as component and quality engineers.

This position provides broad exposure to, and impact on, the entire product lifecycle-covering silicon definition, design, verification, manufacturing logistics, test coverage, product qualification, yield improvement, and customer support. The successful candidate will define product reliability experiments, execute qualifications for next-generation products, and lead the resolution of manufacturing challenges impacting product shipments.

Job Responsibilities:

• Hands on support for product reliability and qualification.
• Applied product level knowledge for statistical, electrical, and physical root cause failure analysis pre/post qualification.
• Solving release to manufacturing related issues and driving corrective actions.
• Define qualification designs, developing hardware, verifying experimental test conditions, and performing data analysis.
• Supporting production test flows by defining test limits, analyzing test coverage, performing root cause yield analysis, and ensuring datasheet compliance.
• Validating on chip components such as micro-processors, high speed I/O’s, eNVM, SRAM, PLL’s, and Analog I/O’s.
• Develop software for verifying and testing FPGA/SOC products.
• Analyzing device behavior of FPGA/SOC products in both a production and engineering environment.

Requirements/Qualifications:

Required Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• 6+ years knowledge of semiconductor product qualifications -JEDEC
• 3+ years knowledge of silicon reliability and process failure mechanisms
• 3+ years applied understanding of software and hardware
• 1+ years knowledge of package reliability and assembly failure mechanisms
• 2+ years hands-on experience with automation languages such as C, python, perl, java, visual basics
• Comfortable using ATE, bench, and wafer test systems

Additional Qualifications:

• Understanding of RTL (VHDL or Verilog)
• Ability to develop FPGA designs using EAD development tools and flows is a plus
• Quality and goal oriented
• Excellent communication and initiative
• Works well in collaborative environment
• Knowledge of AECQ-100/MIL-STD-883 qualification standards

Travel Time:

0% - 25%

Physical Attributes:

Feeling, Hearing, Other, Reaching, Seeing, Talking, Works Alone, Works Around Others

Physical Requirements:

70% Sitting, 15% Walking, 15% Standing, Usual Business Hours

Pay Range:

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive base pay, restricted stock units, and quarterly bonus payments. In addition to these components, our package includes health benefits that begin day one, retirement savings plans, and an industry leading ESPP program with a 2 year look back feature. Find more information about all our benefits at the link below:

Benefits of working at Microchip

The annual base salary range for this position, which could be performed in the US, is $70,304 - $163,000.*

*Range is dependent on numerous factors including job location, skills and experience.

Microchip 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.

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