Senior Engineer II-Applications

Microchip Technology Inc; Town of Smithtown (NY); On-site; USD 70,304 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base pay

Restricted stock units

Quarterly bonus payments

Health benefits

Retirement savings plans

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

A leading technology company seeks a Senior Engineer II to support USB products. This role involves training sales engineers, debugging implementations, and developing hardware demonstrations. Candidates must have extensive experience in electrical engineering and strong communication skills. The position offers a competitive salary range from $70,304 to $205,000 depending on skills and location, alongside a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7.5 years of experience in a related field with a Bachelor's degree.
• Experience in Applications Engineering roles is required.
• Proficient in designing hardware systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct technical support to sales and field engineers.
• Work with marketing and customers to understand product requirements.
• Develop training materials and conduct training sessions.

Skills

Written communication skills

Silicon/System Architecture

Hardware design

Understanding of mixed signal systems

Software design basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering

Tools

Altium

Cadence

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.

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Job Description:

Microchip Technology Inc. has a Senior Engineer II-Applications opening in the Networking and Communications Group. The successful candidate will be responsible for enabling customers to be successful with USB products. Responsibilities include training sales and field engineers on the products, answering customer questions, debugging system implementation problems, writing documentation to make the products easy to use, and developing evaluation hardware to demonstrate the product features.

Responsibilities:

• Provide direct technical support to sales and field application engineers as well as key strategic customers.
• Work with product marketing and end customers to understand product requirements and end goals and steer new product development to ensure product goals are met.
• Advocate for new development of companion silicon products with peer business unit leaders to create Microchip total system solution.
• Coordinate with product marketers to initiate and maintain technical partnerships with other silicon vendors to provide joint collateral (e.g. reference schematics, evaluation & form-factor hardware designs) and collaborative pre-production customer support.
• Develop and present technical training such as webinars, hands‑on workshops, etc. to customers, sales and field application engineers.
• Developing collateral such as application notes, data sheets, reference designs, and other activities for new product development.

Requirements/Qualifications:

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or equivalent discipline with a minimum of 7.5 years of experience, or Masters degree in electrical engineering or equivalent discipline with a minimum of 5 years of experience.
• Strong written communication skills with the ability to produce good quality engineering documentation.
• Experience in Silicon/System Architecture, Applications Engineering, or Systems Engineering roles.
• Experience in designing hardware systems.
• Strong understanding of mixed signal systems and inter‑chip protocols.
• Basic understanding of software design.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience and schedule flexibility to effectively collaborate with USB & Networking group's de‑centralized global engineering teams.
• Experience in working with high‑speed interfaces including USB, PCI Express, Ethernet, etc.
• Experience in directly designing electrical circuits/system design/reference design schematic capture with software based PCB design tools (e.g. Altium, Cadence).
• Leader/direct contributor in technical role/s to bring three (3) or more silicon products to market.
• Embedded and/or application programming experience (e.g. C, Python, LabView etc.) including commercial products, personal and/or open‑source projects.
• Experience in troubleshooting hardware and software issues.
• Proficient with essential lab equipment including function generators, power supplies, multi‑meters and oscilloscopes.
• Debugging experience with serial protocol analyzers (inter‑chip protocols, USB, PCIe, etc.)
• Contributor or company liaison for international standards/special interest groups.
• Experience in working with hardware and microcontroller‑based designs.
• Experience in technical training development and presentation.
• Experience in direct customer service and support.

Travel Time:

0% - 25%

Physical Attributes:

Hearing, Seeing, Talking, Works Alone, Works Around Others

Physical Requirements:

Standing 20%, Walking 20%, Sitting 80%, Inside 100%, M-F 8-5 PM

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 ESPP program with a 2 year 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, which could be performed in the US, is $70,304 - $205,000.*

*Range is dependent on numerous factors including job location, skills and experience.

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