Staff Engineer - High Speed Characterization

Microchip FPGA Product Group is the leading supplier of nonvolatile, low-power programmable technologies
Our mission is to manage power consumption at both the chip and the system level, leveraging the industrys lowest power FPGAs and unique mixed-signal FPGAs to offer system designers a competitive edge
Our Design Center in Hyderabad, India is a growing and vital member of the group

About this Position:

You will join the silicon characterization team to execute characterization of FPGA products
You will work closely with silicon design engineers, software engineers and technology development engineers to ensure that the company deploys new products with the highest quality and shortest time to market
This position will provide the opportunity to work on multiple projects supporting key functions within the organization
Based on the relevant years of experience and exposure, this position can provide opportunities to lead or manage a team

Primary Job Responsibilities:

• Technically lead the team in the area of FPGA characterization with emphasis on high-speed protocols
• Develop Characterization spec, plan, and documentation
• Characterization of Digital and Mixed-signal designs
• Associated design and firmware development
• Verification of Microchip s FPGA timing and Power analysis tools
• Correlation of pre-silicon results with silicon measurements
• Cross-functional team interfacing and collaboration in all activities

Requirements/Qualifications:

Required Skills and Experience:

• BSEE or MSEE
• 12+ years of experience in product characterization or silicon validation with emphasis on digital and mixed-signal circuits
• 5+ years of experience in characterization and/or validation of serial protocols (PCIe/10GBaseKR/XAUI/SATA/etc)
• Expertise in characterization of DDR, SoC, processors, PLL, Oscillators, etc
• Firmware Development on multi-core microcontrollers or processors (ARM/RISC-V or similar)
• Experience working in a laboratory environment, using lab equipment such as BERTs, logic analyzers, spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, function generators, etc
• Experience in evaluation of various laboratory equipment such as BERTs, Oscilloscopes, etc
• In-depth knowledge of electrical engineering fundamentals including CMOS device operation and characteristics
• Experience in board design fundamentals, signal and power integrity
• Experience with Verilog or VHDL
• Exposure to automated characterization flows to maximize use of equipment
• Initiative (self-motivated, self-confident, self-driven, self-learning, always striving for excellence)
• Commitment (responsible, responsive, commit to winning)
• Solid functional and technical skills
• Work quality ("do it right the first time", attention to detail, good documentation)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication, documentation and presentation skills
• Must have strong self-learning ability, leadership, and enjoy working in teams

Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge of JTAG protocol highly desirable
• Working knowledge of SOC and/or FPGA Architectures
• Knowledge of FPGA design synthesis and routing associated with Microchip (Libero), AMD/Xilinx (Vivado, ISE), or Intel/Altera (Quartus) tools
• Working knowledge of at least 1 of the following languages: Java/ C/C++, Visual Basic and/or Perl
• Analog and mixed signal circuit design
  Working experience with analog and/or digital systems is an advantage

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