Engineering Testing Manager

Are you looking for a unique opportunity to be a part of something great Want to join a 17000-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!) People come to work at Microchip because we help design the technology that runs the world. 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 its won us countless awards for diversity and workplace excellence.

we did not achieve record revenue and over 30 years of quarterly profitability without a great team dedicated to empowering innovation. Microchips Data Center Solutions Business Unit (DCS) delivers industry leading performance reliability and security in Storage Controllers Memory Controllers NVMe SSD Controllers PCIe Switches and SAS Expanders that are applied in Cloud Storage and Compute Data Centers and Storage Area Networks.

As a System Validation Engineer you will join a group of world class talented system integrators responsible for the bring-up integration and validation of cutting-edge System on a Chip (SoC) products for the Data Center Solutions Business Unit.

This includes working with emulation platforms proto-ICs validation boards FW and SW to bring an entire system level solution to life and enable functional testing and FW development.
Develop execute and document a series of feature tests that will fully validate the operation of the SoC and its various functional HW blocks and FW to ensure all components and the overall SoC is functioning per design specs achieves expected performance and meets industry requirements and standards.
Architecting building and maintaining validation infrastructure through the development of boards FPGAs embedded software device drivers and test bench scripts.
Developing block subsystem and system level test FW and scripts and further integrating them in to best-in-class test automation suites.
Leading small technical team activities in area of expertise.
Architecting comprehensive test plans for area of expertise.
Leading complex test execution and conducting investigations in a lab environment on-site and remotely.
Help grow and train the validation team.
Effectively presenting technical information to internal and external groups.

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering or Computer Science.

• Experience leading a small technical team.
• Experience working in a lab environment and knowledge of relevant test equipment and protocol analyzers.
• Strong knowledge of digital system and computer architecture.
• Strong knowledge of Data Communication and Digital Design theory.
• Strong knowledge of scripting language such as Python or Tcl/Tk proficiency in C/C programming.
• Experience in defining comprehensive test coverage at sub-block and system level utilizing design specification feature requirements and industry standards.
• Ability to develop and execute functional validation plans and necessary validation software and scripts.
• Familiarity with CXL DDR I2C SPI protocols is an asset.
• Experience testing and debugging high-speed SERDES.
• SoC performance validation and performance tuning experience is an asset.
• Experience working in Linux and Windows based OS environments.
• Familiarity with FPGA based emulation environments - deployment of test coverage for pre-silicon test is an asset.

Experience in high-speed digital designs board designs PCB layouts signal integrity concepts and manufacturing process is an asset.
Programming FW in C/C
In depth Linux OS architecture and driver knowledge.
Linux or Windows host driver development.
Knowledge of FPGA layout tools and VHDL/Verilog coding.
Travel Time:

It consists of competitive base pay restricted stock units and quarterly bonus addition to these components our package includes health benefits that begin day one retirement savings plans and an industry leading IESPP program with a 6-month look back feature.