Job Description

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.
People 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-recognized Leadership 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.
Our 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.
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This position is in the Advanced Development team of Microchip's FPGA Division. Microchip is a major supplier of low-power and highly-reliable field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), a type of programmable logic chip. Our FPGAs are used in a wide variety of applications, including: embedded vision; digital signal processing; machine learning; industrial and medical equipment; and satellites.
Microchip is also a pioneer in embedding RISC-V processors in FPGAs. The successful applicant will work as part a core team that develops future FPGA fabric architectures and collaborates with design engineering to develop, verify, and integrate the fabric architecture with other device components such as 10, hard IP blocks, configuration, and security.
Responsibilities will include a mixture of the following:Learn about development of FPGA fabric architectures that support a range of applications across embedded control solutions, communications, industrial, and aerospace. Contribute to evaluation of logic and routing for future FPGA architectures, and help drive speed, power, and cost targets. Develop example FPGA application benchmarks, either by coding them in Verilog and high-level synthesis tools, or by programming generation algorithms to generate designs automatically. Develop and contribute to unique software tools to support our efforts, applying graph algorithms, statistical modeling, and combinatorial optimization. Analyze and share your data with various groups within the company, including Software Engineering, Circuit Design, Marketing and Application Engineering. This broad organizational exposure will provide an unusual opportunity for learning and advancement within Microchip.

Requirements/Qualifications:
We value articulate, creative, and self-motivated people. This role will contribute to future product directions and so previous experience with FPGAs is desirable. Demonstration of analysis and design implementation in adjacent disciplines such as ASIC design may also be acceptable.Bachelor/Masters/PhD in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Statistics or Physics. 0-3 years' relevant research or work experience in programmable architectures, applications implementation, or other relevant experience. Practical coding experience in Verilog and Python or C/C++, demonstrated in research projects or in prior work or intern experience. Familiarity with engineering development on Linux. Familiarity with at least two of these areas, coupled with a desire for on-going new learning: digital logic design; data structures and algorithms; linear algebra; digital signal processing; processor architecture; use of compiler tools and compilation techniques. Outstanding oral and written communication skills, willingness to document work products.

Travel Time:
0% - 25%
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 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
The annual base salary range for this position is $76,000 - $114,000. Range is dependent on numerous factors including job location, skills and experience.

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