Senior Engineer II, USB Applications & Tech Training

Microchip Technology Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 70,304 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Microchip Technology Inc. has a Senior Engineer II-Applications opening in the Networking and Communications Group.

The successful candidate will enable customers to be successful with USB products by training sales and field engineers, answering questions, debugging implementations, writing user-friendly docs, and developing evaluation hardware to showcase features. Candidates should have a strong engineering background, 7.5+ years, and experience in silicon architecture, systems engineering,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Masters in electrical engineering or equivalent discipline is required.
• 7.5+ years of relevant experience in engineering roles is expected.
• Experience in Silicon/System Architecture, Applications Engineering, or Systems Engineering.

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.

Skills

Strong written communication

Silicon/System Architecture

Hardware design

Inter-chip protocols

Software design understanding

Technical training development

Customer-service experience

Education

Bachelor’s or Masters in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Altium

Cadence

Oscilloscopes

Function generators

Power supplies

Multimeters

Job description

Microchip Technology Inc. has a Senior Engineer II-Applications opening in the Networking and Communications Group.

The successful candidate will enable customers to be successful with USB products by training sales and field engineers, answering questions, debugging implementations, writing user-friendly docs, and developing evaluation hardware to showcase features. Candidates should have a strong engineering background, 7.5+ years, and experience in silicon architecture, systems engineering,