Senior Technical Staff Engineer - Emulation

About This Role

This role will provide technical leadership for the Enterprise Flash Controller product line, architecting and executing emulation strategies for complex gate devices that power next-generation data centers and accelerators within Microchip's Data Center Solutions Business Unit.

Responsibilities

• Develop next-generation Data Center Storage products, including enterprise-class NVMe Solid State Drive (SSD) controllers and other PCIe based products.
• Provide technical leadership through all phases of silicon ASIC development.
• Work with industry standard protocols such as PCIe, ONFI, AMBA AXI, SAS and DDR4/5 and third-party Accelerated Verification IPs (AVIPs).
• Evaluate emulation platforms and provide recommendations.
• Build and maintain emulation platforms with design variants.
• Support emulation activities in pre and post silicon development phases.
• Stay current on the latest SOC trends and innovations and incorporate them into emulation flows.
• Develop Simulation Acceleration testbenches using Cadence Palladium flow and support emulation bring-up and post silicon debug.
• Work on Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) based testbench architecture, test plan development, simulation and coverage.
• Develop C based testcases at full chip and review of architectural and micro architecture specifications.
• Develop synthesizable Bus Functional Models (BFM) for various protocols and interfaces used in SoC design and emulation.
• Debug and root cause design, testbench and emulation platform related issues.

Requirements

• 12.5+ years of relevant industry experience in ASIC development, emulation
• Excellent problem solving and debugging skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Teamwork and time management skills
• Ability to work under pressure and desire to excel in a competitive environment
• Experience with all aspects of the SoC/ASIC emulation, and verification flow
• Experience with PCIe based Enterprise Flash Controller design
• Experience with emulation platforms, preferably Cadence Palladium and Protium emulation platforms

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer engineering (Master’s degree preferred)
• 12.5+ years of relevant industry experience in ASIC development, emulation.

Nice to Have

• Master's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering
• Experience with ARM, RISC-V and/or MIPS CPUs
• Experience with PCIe, DDR, and ONFI/Toggle NAND
• Experience with on-chip interconnect and cache coherency

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits