Principal Engineer-Verification

About Microchip Technology Inc.

Microchip Technology Inc. is a leading provider of microcontroller, analog, Smart Fusion mixed-signal, FPGA, and CPLD devices, as well as low-power RF and linear technologies. We are a multi-billion dollar global organization with over 17,000 employees worldwide. Our products are used in a wide range of applications, including automotive, industrial, communications, aerospace and defense, and consumer electronics.

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Job Description

Microchip’s Data Center Solutions (DCS) Business Unit offers industry-leading performance, reliability, and security for PCIe Switches and NVME Controllers. As a Principal Engineer-Verification, you will provide leadership in the highly successful PCIe Switch product line. These complex 800M gate+ integrated silicon devices enable top-tier data centers in next-gen storage, artificial intelligence, and automotive market segments.

Responsibilities

• Defining verification plans and building verification environments for chip/module level designs using System Verilog with UVM.
• Applying advanced verification techniques like constrained random generation, functional coverage, assertions, and formal verification.
• Simulations using Cadence Incisive Enterprise Simulator, and debugging using SimVision.
• Writing test cases, checkers, and coverage that implement the verification test plan.
• Support emulation, ASIC lab validation including lab debug and providing root-cause simulations and workarounds.

Requirements/Qualifications

• Minimum BSEE and 10 years of related proven verification or silicon design experience
• RTL verification using coverage-driven verification techniques
• Scripting in any language
• Proficient in HDL languages SystemVerilog, Verilog, or VHDL
• Familiarity with UNIX environment
• Good analytical, oral, and written communication skills
• Able to write clean, readable, and maintainable code
• Self-motivated, proactive team player

Preferred Experience

• Programming experience or coursework in C, C++
• Experience or academic knowledge of the design and verification of interfaces and controllers for high-speed serial protocols such as Serial Attached SCSI, Serial ATA, and PCI-Express
• Understanding of ASIC designs and verification methodologies
• Knowledge of MIPS or ARM, X86 system architecture

Travel Time

0% - 25%

Physical Attributes

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

Physical Requirements

100% inside, 80% sitting, 10% standing, 10% walking

Equal Opportunity Employer

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