Senior Technical Staff Engineer - Design

FHLB Des Moines; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Microchip Technology Inc. in Bengaluru leads the Data Center Solutions group and seeks a senior architect to drive architecture, RTL design, and complex IPs from concept to silicon. You will partner with verification, physical design, DFT, and system teams to ensure robust, high‑performance outcomes.

With 15+ years in ASIC/SoC digital design, you will apply SystemVerilog, low‑power strategies, and high‑speed interfaces. Cadence environments are a plus, and travel of 0–25% may be required.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in ASIC/SoC digital design.
• Strong SystemVerilog RTL design and micro-architecture development.
• Experience with Lint, CDC, formal verification, logic synthesis, and static timing analysis.
• Understanding of physical design interactions including timing, power, and congestion.
• Experience with low-power design methodologies and flows.
• Knowledge of DFT, including scan, testability and DFT sign-off.
• Scripting in Tcl, Perl, or Awk.
• Hands-on with PCIe, CXL, NVMe, SAS/SATA or similar interfaces.
• Cadence-based ASIC design environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and micro-architecture definition for complex IPs, subsystems, or full‑chip designs.
• Drive end‑to‑end RTL design execution from concept through synthesis, sign‑off, and silicon bring‑up.
• Serve as the technical authority for digital design to ensure high quality, performance, power and area (PPA).
• Collaborate with verification, physical design, DFT, system, and product teams to ensure robust delivery.
• Mentor Senior and Staff engineers and provide architectural reviews and direction.
• Define design methodologies, sign‑off criteria, and best practices across projects.

Skills

SystemVerilog RTL design

Micro-architecture development

DFT & verification

Scripting (Tcl/Perl/Awk)

High-speed protocols (PCIe/CXL/NVMe/S@

Cadence ASIC design environments

Education

Bachelor degree in Electronics or Electrical Engineering

Tools

Cadence-based ASIC design environments

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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Job Description: Role Overview

The candidate will join Microchip’s rapidly growing Data Center Solutions (DCS) business unit, delivering high‑performance silicon solutions used by leading server and storage OEMs and hyperscale data centers. DCS products enable workloads ranging from cloud and big data storage to AI/ML acceleration, shaping the next generation of data center infrastructure. DCS portfolio includes SAS, PCIe, NVMe, and CXL infrastructure products, Flash Controllers, High‑Performance Switches, and advanced memory infrastructure solutions. This role provides a unique opportunity to drive architecture, design excellence, and methodology innovation in complex data center‑class ASICs.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and micro‑architecture definition for complex IPs, subsystems, or full‑chip designs.
• Drive end‑to‑end RTL design execution, from concept through synthesis, sign‑off, and silicon bring‑up support.
• Serve as a technical authority for digital design, ensuring high standards in quality, performance, power, and area (PPA).
• Resolve complex, cross‑domain design and EDA tool challenges impacting schedule or silicon quality.
• Collaborate closely with verification, physical design, DFT, system, and product teams to ensure robust and predictable delivery.
• Guide low‑power, high‑performance design strategies suitable for data center workloads.
• Influence protocol and platform roadmap decisions, particularly in PCIe, CXL, NVMe, SAS, and related interconnects.
• Mentor and technically guide Senior and Staff engineers, providing architectural reviews and design direction.
• Represent the design organization in technical reviews with senior leadership and cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to apply data driven approaches to improve design quality, efficiency and time‑to‑market.
• Define and enforce design methodologies, sign‑off criteria, and best practices across projects.
• Champion AI/ML‑assisted automation and intelligent workflows that scale across teams and projects.

Requirements/Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Electronics or Electrical Engineering minimum 15+ years of experience in ASIC or SoC digital design.
• Bachelor degree in Electronics or Electrical Engineering minimum Strong expertise in SystemVerilog RTL design and micro‑architecture development.
• Proven success delivering multiple complex tape‑outs in high‑performance or data center‑class silicon.
• Deep hands‑on experience with Lint, CDC, formal verification, logic synthesis, and static timing analysis.
• Strong understanding of physical design interactions, including timing, power, and congestion considerations.
• Solid experience with low‑power design methodologies and flows.
• Mandatory knowledge of DFT, including scan, testability considerations and DFT sign‑off interactions.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Tcl, Perl, and/or Awk.
• Hands‑on experience with high‑speed protocols such as PCIe, CXL, NVMe, SAS/SATA, or similar serial interfaces.
• Hands‑on experience with Cadence‑based ASIC design environments is an assset.

Travel Time: 0% - 25%

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