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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 of SAS/SATA Expanders and SAS/SATA/NVMe Storage controllers, is seeking for highly skilled and experienced firmware architect, who will be leading designs and development of Storage firmware and Real-Time Firmware solutions for state-of-art System-on-Chip (SoC) devices with embedded MIPS processors.

Successful applicant will collaborate with Cross Geo teams to design, develop and 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
As a senior technical member of the team, participate 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 with Apps/Marketing team to help customers in the development of their Storage solutions using Microchip devices and software/firmware components
Understand customer requirements and drive them through the project management process
Work in collaboration with other Microchip sites to design new features/solutions and support customer
Analyze software performance (cycle counts, cache utilization) of firmware.
Analyze IO performance and finding ways to make the products yield better performance
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
15+ years of firmware development experience in embedded systems
10+ years of experience with one or more storage protocols such as SAS/SATA/NVMe and thorough knowledge of PCIe protocol.
10+ years of experience in Storage technologies or demonstrated comparable experience.
Good Hands-on Experience in Firmware security and networking protocols is added advantage
Extensive working experience of storage firmware design and implementation using C and ASM
Experience in developing device drivers for peripheral protocols like GPIO, I2C, SPI, etc
Experience in GreenHills probe is added advantage.
Demonstrated ability to conceive, design, implement and document complex firmware systems.
Demonstrated knowledge in use of protocol analyzers and debug tools.
Exposure to Storage Security features (Encryptions, SPDM, Hash algorithms) are added advantage
Effective communicator of technical ideas using verbal as well as written skills
Team Player and proven leadership skills
Highly motivated, sets personal goals, and achieves goals without supervision
Debugging technique using GHS. Probe.

Technical Staff Engineer-Firmware