Principal Engineer - Product Marketing

Microchip Technology Inc.; Feuchtwangen; Vor Ort; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Microchip Technology Inc. is seeking a Principal Engineer - Product Marketing to own the product strategy, requirements, and business planning for our automotive wireless SoC portfolio—spanning BLE, UWB, and emerging standards. This is a high-impact role at the intersection of marketing, engineering, and the automotive ecosystem.

You will drive multiple lines from concept through launch, engage in industry consortia, and develop training and collateral to enable sales across global teams.

Qualifikationen

• 8+ years in semiconductor product marketing or product management defining wireless SoCs or RF ICs (BLE, UWB, Wi-Fi, SubGHz)
• Proven track record of driving business, revenue and releasing products
• Experience defining new product definitions and product business plans
• Demonstrated ability to engage technically with architecture, design and applications
• Familiarity with the competitive landscape in automotive connectivity semiconductors
• Strong financial acumen with revenue modeling and margin analysis for product lines
• Excellent communication skills; ability to influence cross-functional teams
• Willingness to travel (20%) for customer visits and consortium meetings

Aufgaben

• Own product strategy, requirements and competitive positioning for automotive wireless SoCs
• Define feature-sets and drive trade-offs across BLE, UWB and next-gen standards with engineering teams
• Build and maintain a data-driven product roadmap informed by customer needs and tech evolution
• Conduct ongoing competitive analysis and translate insights into differentiation strategy
• Participate in industry standards bodies and consortia and translate direction into actionable requirements
• Partner with global sales and field engineering to support design-ins and evaluations
• Coordinate across hardware, software, IP, and validation teams to meet milestones
• Drive buy-vs-build decisions for key wireless IP blocks with engineering leadership

Kenntnisse

Wireless SoC marketing

Product strategy

Cross-functional leadership

Competitive analysis

Business planning

Technical communication

Ausbildung

MSEE or MSCS

MBA is a plus

Jobbeschreibung

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.

Job Description

About the Role

Microchip’s Wireless Solutions Group is defining the next generation of wireless system-on-chip (SoC) products for the automotive market among other durable segments. We are seeking an experienced Principal Engineer - Product Marketing to own the product strategy, requirements, and business planning for our automotive wireless SoC portfolio — spanning Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), Ultra-Wideband (UWB), and emerging connectivity standards.

This is a high-impact, high-visibility role. You will drive multiple concurrent product lines from concept through definition and launch, working at the intersection of marketing, engineering, and the broader automotive ecosystem. You’ll represent Microchip in key industry consortia and shape the wireless roadmap for durable, long-lifecycle markets.

What You’ll Do

Product Strategy & Definition

• Own product business plans, product requirements documents, and competitive positioning for automotive wireless SoCs targeting digital key, vehicle access, and adjacent applications.
• Define feature-sets and drive trade-off decisions across BLE, UWB, and next-generation connectivity standards in close collaboration with Systems, RF IP, digital & analog IP engineering teams.
• Build and maintain a data-driven product roadmap informed by customer needs, competitive dynamics, and technology evolution.

Market & Competitive Intelligence

• Conduct ongoing competitive analysis of automotive wireless solutions from key competitors and translate insights into product differentiation strategy.
• Track and anticipate Bluetooth, UWB, and automotive connectivity standard evolution to inform forward-looking product definition

Industry Consortium & Ecosystem Engagement

• Actively participate in industry standards bodies and consortia (e.g., Car Connectivity Consortium, Bluetooth SIG, FiRa), contributing to working groups and monitoring emerging use-cases and specification changes
• Translate consortium direction into actionable product requirements and customer-facing positioning.

Customer & Sales Enablement

• Partner with worldwide automotive sales, field application engineers, and regional business development teams to support customer engagements, design-ins, and technical evaluations
• Develop training materials, competitive collateral, and demonstration strategies that equip the field organization to win.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Coordinate across hardware, software/applications, IP acquisition, and validation teams to ensure product definition milestones stay on track.

Drive buy-vs-build and architectural decisions for key wireless IP blocks in collaboration with engineering leadership.

Requirements/Qualifications

Required

• 8+ years in semiconductor product marketing or product management, with hands‑on experience defining wireless SoC or RF IC products (BLE, UWB, Wi-Fi, SubGHz, or similar).
• Proven track record of driving business, generating new revenue and releasing new products to market
• Experience driving new product definition and product business plans
• Demonstrated ability to engage at a technical level with architecture, design and applications
• Familiarity with the competitive landscape in automotive connectivity semiconductors
• Strong financial acumen, comfortable with revenue modeling, forecasting, margin analysis for semiconductor product lines.
• Excellent communication skills; able to influence cross-functional teams and leadership
• Willingness to travel (20%) for customer visits and consortium meetings

Preferred

• Direct experience in vehicle access, digital key, PEPS, or automotive body electronics product ecosystems.
• Experience managing product portfolios that span multiple technologies
• Familiar with industry standards bodies and alliances
• MSEE, MSCS, or equivalent technical degree; MBA is a plus.

Travel Time

0% - 25%