Senior Engineer II - Product

FHLB Des Moines; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits beginning day one

RSU equity program

Annual bonus opportunities

Retirement savings plans

Job summary

Microchip Technology Inc. in the United States seeks a Product Engineer in the New Products Group to drive product reliability and qualification across silicon, testing, and manufacturing processes.

You will interact with development engineers, designers, and test teams to define qualification plans, analyze failures, and support production test flows while contributing to FPGA/SOC validation and RTL-related activities.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent is required.
• 6+ years knowledge of semiconductor product qualifications – JEDEC.
• 3+ years knowledge of silicon reliability and process failure mechanisms.
• 3+ years applied understanding of software and hardware.
• 1+ years knowledge of package reliability and assembly failure mechanisms.
• 2+ years hands-on experience with automation languages such as C, Python, Perl, Java, Visual Basic.
• Comfortable using ATE, bench, and wafer test systems.

Responsibilities

• Hands on support for product reliability and qualification.
• Applied product level knowledge for statistical, electrical, and physical root cause failure analysis pre/post qualification.
• Solving release to manufacturing related issues and driving corrective actions.
• Define qualification designs, developing hardware, verifying experimental test conditions, and performing data analysis.
• Supporting production test flows by defining test limits, analyzing test coverage, performing root cause yield analysis, and ensuring datasheet compliance.
• Validating on chip components such as micro-processors, high speed I/O’s, eNVM, SRAM, PLL’s, and Analog I/O’s.
• Develop software for verifying and testing FPGA/SOC products.
• Analyzing device behavior of FPGA/SOC products in both a production and engineering environment.

Skills

C

Python

Perl

Java

Visual Basic

Education

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent

Tools

ATE systems

Wafer test systems

Bench equipment

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. Visit our careers page to see what exciting opportunities and company perks await!

Job Description

Microchip has been consistently recognized as one of the best places to work by prestigious publications like Forbes, Bay Area News and Phoenix Business Journal. The FPGA Business Unit (formerly Actel, with a 35+ year uninterrupted legacy of providing programmable logic solutions) is one of the largest and most profitable BUs inside Microchip. We have revolutionized the FPGA industry with the industry’s most awarded FPGA families - the PolarFire FPGA family and the first RISC-V based PolarFire SoC, delivering class leading power efficiency, reliability and security. With this portfolio, we have enabled commercial applications like the world’s most innovative AI-enabled embedded vision and smart automation products, the world’s most secure and reliable 5G communications networks, as well as the world’s most sophisticated aerospace products that have delivered payloads to Mars and beyond. If you are looking to be a part of a team that is transforming the world of low power compute whilst delivering exceptional top line growth rates, you will be challenged to find a better place to contribute, grow your career and learn to deliver truly remarkable solutions. Product Engineering within the New Products Group (NPI) is a fast-paced and collaborative team dedicated to new product rollout. The role involves daily interaction with a wide range of cross-functional partners, including technology development engineers, circuit designers, logic designers (customers), applications engineers, as well as component and quality engineers. This position provides broad exposure to, and impact on, the entire product lifecycle—covering silicon definition, design, verification, manufacturing logistics, test coverage, product qualification, yield improvement, and customer support. The successful candidate will define product reliability experiments, execute qualifications for next-generation products, and lead the resolution of manufacturing challenges impacting product shipments.

Job Responsibilities

• Hands on support for product reliability and qualification.
• Applied product level knowledge for statistical, electrical, and physical root cause failure analysis pre/post qualification.
• Solving release to manufacturing related issues and driving corrective actions.
• Define qualification designs, developing hardware, verifying experimental test conditions, and performing data analysis.
• Supporting production test flows by defining test limits, analyzing test coverage, performing root cause yield analysis, and ensuring datasheet compliance.
• Validating on chip components such as micro-processors, high speed I/O’s, eNVM, SRAM, PLL’s, and Analog I/O’s.
• Develop software for verifying and testing FPGA/SOC products.
• Analyzing device behavior of FPGA/SOC products in both a production and engineering environment.

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent
• 6+ years knowledge of semiconductor product qualifications –JEDEC
• 3+ years knowledge of silicon reliability and process failure mechanisms
• 3+ years applied understanding of software and hardware
• 1+ years knowledge of package reliability and assembly failure mechanisms
• 2+ years hands-on experience with automation languages such as C, python, perl, java, visual basics
• Comfortable using ATE, bench, and wafer test systems

Additional Qualifications

• Understanding of RTL (VHDL or Verilog)
• Ability to develop FPGA designs using EAD development tools and flows is a plus
• Quality and goal oriented
• Excellent communication and initiative
• Works well in collaborative environment
• Knowledge of AECQ-100/MIL-STD-883 qualification standards

Travel Time

0% - 25%

Physical Attributes

Feeling, Hearing, Other, Reaching, Seeing, Talking, Works Alone, Works Around Others

Physical Requirements

70% Sitting, 15% Walking, 15% Standing, Usual Business Hours

Pay Range and Benefits

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 - $163,000.* *Range is dependent on numerous factors including job location, skills and experience.

Microchip Technology Inc is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information on applicable equal employment regulations, please refer to the Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal Poster.

At Microchip, employees are our greatest strength. As one of the top performing semiconductor companies in the world, we are led by a set of guiding values and a mission to empower innovation to enhance the human experience. We work tirelessly to create a company culture that highlights how important every employee is to our mission.