Our Applications Engineering Team is responsible for working closely with the Product Development Teams, Product Validation Teams, keting Teams, and Sales Teams to enable our storage/data center customers to bring their solutions to the ket. We work with leading edge technology that gets deployed in data center, machine-learning/AI, and storage applications. We engage with customer engineering teams to assist in design wins, product ramps , and system production. We offer a challenging and dynamic working environment with opportunities to make substantial contributions toward the success of our business.
Responsibilities:
- Lead customer storage platform enablement using Microchip Switchtec PCI Express switch products and drive system-level solutions.
- Collaborate with hyperscale and storage worldwide customers to define requirements, manage deliverables, and support platforms from initial board bring-up to production.
- Provide technical support, manage customer platform enabling issues, and develop product collateral, hardware guides, reference design package, firmware up , and software for PCIE switch products used in data center computing/storage integrated circuits.
- Provide product training and presentation to internal field engineers, customer engineering teams, and mentorship to ior engineers.
- Work independently and within cross-functional teams to solve complex engineering challenges.
- Travel to customer sites in Asia and North America as needed to debug systems and support PCIe switch products.
- Lead technical discussions and customer engagements to optimize system designs and platform implementation.
- Ensure seamless product integration and lifecycle management through collaboration with customers and internal teams.
- Continue learning on next generation PCI express bus protocol, storage architecture and Switchtec product from internal and external technical resources.
Requirements/Qualifications:
- Bachelor s degree in EE, CS, or CE with 12+ years of industry experience.
- Strong technical leadership, teamwork, communication, and presentation skills in a cross-functional, global environment.
- Expertise in circuit theory, PCB Schematics and Layout, high-speed signal fundamentals, and board-level debug & bring-up.
- Hands-on experience with protocol analyzers, exercisers, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, and other lab equipment.
- Understanding of system-level firmware-hardware interaction and good problem-solving skills.
- Customer-facing experience with a focus on technical support and issue debug.
- Familiarity with storage networking concepts and I/O protocols like PCIe, SAS, A, SCSI, Ethernet, and TCP/IP.
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams across multiple geographical locations to drive engineering excellence.
Desired Qualifications:
- Expertise in PCIe or any other high speed serial interface bus/SERDES architecture, signal integrity, and simulations (spice/IBIS AMI).
- Strong system design, hardware (board/chip-level) development & debugging and customer orientation skills.
- Comprehensive knowledge of computer system design, server and storage system architecture, microprocessors, I/O interfaces, electronics hardware development and basic programming (Python, C).
- Experience in the Storage Industry and familiarity with keting and sales collaboration.
- Skilled in debugging using lab equipment like multi-meters, oscilloscopes, and Linux utilities.
- Strong communication, presentation, and cross-functional team engagement abilities.