Senior Technical Staff Engineer - Systems Validation

FHLB Des Moines; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Microchip Technology Inc. in Hyderabad, India, is seeking a seasoned FPGA validation lead to steer bring-up, validation, and sign-off of silicon features across RTL and embedded processor domains.

You will guide cross-functional teams in design, applications, systems, firmware, and global engineering, ensuring rigorous validation and timely milestones while mentoring a skilled team. This role emphasizes hands-on debugging, protocol expertise, and disciplined execution to deliver high-quality

Qualifications

• 13+ years of relevant industry experience in silicon validation.
• Experience leading silicon validation teams and cross-functional coordination.
• Strong hands-on FPGA validation, board bring-up, and lab debug.
• Proficiency with high-speed interfaces such as PCIe, USB, and JESD204B/C.

Responsibilities

• Lead FPGA silicon validation activities using standard design flows and lab-based debugging.
• Manage and mentor a technical validation team across multiple projects.
• Develop validation strategies, plans, and sign-off criteria.
• Drive RTL-based and Embedded C test design for feature validation and bring-up.
• Review specs, validation plans, board schematics, and test requirements.
• Lead board bring-up and debug of complex silicon functions using test equipment.
• Perform root-cause analysis and validate workarounds through experiments.
• Track and close bugs (Bugzilla/Jira) through sign-off phases.
• Provide status updates and risk assessments in reviews and meetings.
• Collaborate with global teams for deep-dive debug discussions and alignment.
• Document validation results and secure formal sign-off.

Skills

FPGA validation

Board bring-up

Lab debug

Embedded C

Protocol analysis

Team leadership

Mentoring

Education

BE/BTech or ME/MTech in electronics/related

Tools

Synopsys Identify

Xilinx ChipScope

Altera SignalTap

Lattice Reveal

Job description

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.

Job Description: About the Company:

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 industry's 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.

Job Description

The role will lead a technical validation team responsible for bring-up, validation, debug, and sign-off of FPGA silicon features and interfaces. This role requires strong hands-on silicon validation expertise, the ability to guide complex debug activities, and experience driving cross-functional execution across design, applications, systems, firmware, and global engineering teams. The position involves creating and using validation designs partitioned across RTL and embedded processor applications, testing silicon on boards using lab equipment and protocol analyzers, reviewing specifications and validation plans, and ensuring issues are root-caused, tracked, resolved, and closed before sign-off.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead FPGA silicon validation activities using Microchip FPGA design flows, validation methodologies, and lab-based debug practices.
• Manage and mentor a technical validation team across multiple projects, ensuring clear ownership, execution discipline, and timely delivery of milestones.
• Develop validation strategies, execution plans, test coverage goals, and sign-off criteria for block-level and subsystem-level features.
• Drive RTL-based and Embedded C-based test design development for feature validation, silicon bring-up, and system-level debug.
• Review specifications, validation plans, board schematics, and test requirements to ensure validation readiness and technical completeness.
• Lead board bring-up, feature validation, and debug of complex silicon functions using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol exercisers, protocol analyzers, and integrated logic analyzer tools.
• Perform root cause analysis for design, silicon, board, firmware, and system-level issues; validate workarounds and fixes through structured experiments.
• File, track, and drive closure of Bugzilla/Jira issues identified during design creation, validation, and sign-off phases.
• Provide clear status updates, risk assessments, dependency tracking, and action item follow-up in department reviews, project meetings, and stakeholder discussions.
• Collaborate with global teams, including teams in the US, for deep-dive debug discussions, technical reviews, issue resolution, and sign-off alignment.
• Document validation results, review findings with stakeholders, and secure formal sign-off for completed validation activities.

Requirements/Qualifications: Required Skills and Experience

• BE/BTech or ME/MTech in Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline with 13+ years of relevant industry experience.
• Proven experience managing or leading silicon validation teams, including planning, execution tracking, technical mentoring, and cross-functional coordination.
• Strong hands-on experience in FPGA silicon validation, board bring-up, lab debug, validation closure, and issue triage.
• Strong understanding of SERDES architecture, PMA features, equalization settings, eye capture, high-speed debug methods, and validation of data rates up to 100G.
• Hands-on validation experience in one or more protocols such as JESD204B, JESD204C, PCIe Gen4/Gen5, USB 3.2, 1588 PTP, MIPI, MACsec, or similar high-speed interfaces.
• Good knowledge of embedded processors and peripherals such as SPI, I3C, UART, NoC, Trace, and USB.
• Hands-on experience in C programming for embedded test applications, firmware-level debug, and validation automation.
• Strong capability to debug digital logic and analog behavior on PCBs using oscilloscopes, digital analyzers, protocol exercisers/analyzers, and integrated logic analyzers such as Synopsys Identify, Xilinx ChipScope, Altera SignalTap, or Lattice Reveal.
• Ability to handle complex use cases at block level and subsystem level, including test planning, failure isolation, workaround validation, and closure.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present technical status, risks, and recommendations clearly to engineering leaders and stakeholders.
• Strong commitment to quality, customer satisfaction, disciplined execution, and continuous improvement.

Travel Time: 0% - 25%