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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:\nWe currently have an opening for a Senior Field Applications Engineer (FAE). It is a high-impact technical role for an experienced hardware, firmware, or embedded systems engineer seeking broader influence than a traditional development position. As a trusted technical advisor, the Senior FAE combines deep engineering expertise with customer engagement to help customers make architecture decisions, solve complex design challenges, and bring successful products to market. This role works closely with customers, sales, product management, and internal engineering teams to drive design wins, influence product direction, and create measurable business impact.\nWhy This Role Is Compelling:\nBroader technical influence across complete systems, architectures, technology selections, and customer design decisions.\nDirect visibility to business outcomes through design wins, revenue impact, and successful customer product launches.\nExposure to a wide range of customers, applications, and industries instead of working on a single internal product for years.\nContinuous learning across emerging technologies such as embedded systems, industrial networking, high-speed Ethernet, PCIe, CXL, SoCs, FPGA, security, AI edge, and connected designs.\nAutonomy, trust, and ownership of strategic customer relationships, technical strategy, and territory success.\nA career path that can grow toward Principal FAE, solutions architecture, technical marketing, or technical sales leadership.\nKey Responsibilities:\nAct as a trusted technical advisor to strategic customers, influencing system architecture, technology selection, and product integration decisions.\nPartner with sales teams to identify customer needs, shape technical strategy, and drive design-in and design-win opportunities.\nSupport customers throughout the product lifecycle, from early architecture discussions and proof of concept through production launch and post-sales support.\nConduct technical presentations, product demonstrations, and training sessions for customers and partners.\nAnalyze customer requirements and recommend optimal product usage, system architecture, software, firmware, interface, logic, IP integration, and implementation strategies.\nSupport customer discussions involving high-speed interface selection, SoC integration, IP blocks, FPGA or programmable logic development, and system-level trade-offs.\nProvide customer and market feedback to engineering, product management, and R&D teams to help influence product roadmaps and future solution development.\nTroubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues, escalating to engineering teams as needed.\nBuild trusted relationships with technical stakeholders, engineering leaders, and decision-makers at customer sites.\nStay current with emerging technologies, competitive products, industry standards, and market trends relevant to customer designs.\nMentor and provide technical guidance to junior FAEs and other team members.\nRequirements/Qualifications:\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field.\n7+ years of relevant design or applications experience in embedded systems, hardware, software, firmware, networking, Ethernet, FPGA, security, SoCs, or related semiconductor technologies.\nSolid understanding of high-speed digital technologies and interfaces such as Ethernet, PCIe, CXL, high-speed SerDes, SoC architectures, or related board- and system-level design considerations.\nAbility to understand customer requirements involving processor, memory, connectivity, acceleration, and peripheral integration within complex embedded or SoC-based systems.\nStrong track record of taking multiple hardware, firmware, software, or embedded systems designs from concept through production.\nExperience working directly with customers, suppliers, sales teams, or cross-functional stakeholders to explain technology, solve technical problems, or influence design decisions.\nComfortable presenting technical concepts, leading architecture discussions, and translating customer requirements into practical engineering solutions.\nExcellent problem-solving, analytical, and troubleshooting skills.\nStrong communication and presentation abilities, with experience engaging both technical and non-technical audiences.\nProven ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.\nWillingness to travel to customer sites as required.\nBilingual proficiency in English and French.\nIdeal Candidate Profile:\nAn experienced engineer who has delivered high-speed, embedded, networking, or SoC-based designs to production and wants broader ownership, customer exposure, and visible business impact.\nA strong communicator who enjoys explaining technology, solving varied technical problems, and influencing design decisions across multiple customers and industries.\nA technically curious engineer with interest in embedded AI, edge intelligence, acceleration, or applying advanced semiconductor technologies to real customer problems.\nA self-directed professional who values autonomy, trust, continuous learning, and a path toward senior technical or customer-facing leadership roles.\nPreferred Skills:\nExperience with product design cycles, customer architecture reviews, proof-of-concept activity, and customer design-in processes.\nFamiliarity with industry standards and protocols relevant to Microchip products, including Ethernet, PCIe, CXL, high-speed digital interfaces, embedded security, and SoC integration.\nExperience supporting logic development, FPGA-based development, IP integration, RTL-level concepts, or semiconductor design-in activity is a strong asset.\nInterest in embedded AI, edge computing, acceleration, machine learning at the edge, or AI-enabled embedded applications is considered a bonus.\nPrior experience mentoring or leading technical teams\nTravel Time:\n0% - 25%Pay Range:\nWe 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 IESPP program with a 6-month look back feature. Find more information about all our benefits at the link below:Benefits of working at Microchip\nThe annual base salary range for this position is $145,000 - $195,000.**Range is dependent on numerous factors including job location, skills and experience.\nOntario Accommodation:\nYour accessibility is important to us. If you would like to contact us about our website or need help completing the application process, please email us at .\nIn accordance with applicable laws (including human rights and accessibility legislation in Ontario), accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process. Let us know what type of accommodations you require to help remove barriers so that you can participate throughout the interview process.\nThis contact information is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.\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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