SoC Design Engineer

Location: Canada - Burnaby

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.

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Join the Design Engineering team as Principal Engineer-Design supporting semiconductor architecture, RTL and circuit design, integration, verification, performance, power, area, documentation, and product lifecycle. This role is best suited for candidates with 10 or more years of relevant experience in semiconductor or electronic design, RTL, digital or mixed-signal circuits, architecture, simulation, synthesis, integration, or a closely related area.

In this role, you will define advanced technical direction, architectures, methodologies, and reusable solutions within an approved domain, partner with relevant technical and business stakeholders, and help deliver reliable, high-quality engineering or service outcomes and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Develop and sustain semiconductor architectures, RTL, circuits, IP, interfaces, subsystems, and design collateral.
• Translate product, system, performance, power, area, reliability, test, manufacturing, and schedule needs into design requirements and plans.
• Analyze specifications, simulations, timing, power, area, integration, defects, risks, dependencies, and technical tradeoffs.
• Debug design, simulation, integration, verification, implementation, and product issues; lead root-cause analysis within approved scope.
• Review requirements, architectures, RTL, circuits, models, constraints, results, changes, and release evidence for technical quality.
• Drive design reuse, automation, quality, reliability, efficiency, and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate outcomes across architecture, design, verification, DFT, implementation, package, product, test, manufacturing, and CAD teams.
• Maintain specifications, design records, review evidence, configuration, and lifecycle documentation.

Requirements/Qualifications

Minimum qualifications