Senior Engineer IIApplications

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-recognizedLeadership 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 Systemand 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.Visit our careers page to see what exciting opportunities and company perks await!Job Description:Microchip Technology Inc. has a Senior Engineer II-Applications opening in the Networking and Communications Group.The successful candidate will be responsible for enabling customers to be successful with USB products.Responsibilities include training sales and field engineers on the products, answering customer questions, debugging system implementation problems, writing documentation to make the products easy to use, and developing evaluation hardware to demonstrate the product features.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. Requirements/Qualifications: Job Requirements: * Bachelor's degree or Masters degree in electrical engineering or equivalent discipline with a minimum of 7.5 years of experience * Strong written communication skills with the ability to produce good quality engineering documentation. * Experience in Silicon/System Architecture, Applications Engineering, or Systems Engineering roles. * Experience in designing hardware systems. * Strong understanding of mixed signal systems and inter-chip protocols. * Basic understanding of software design.Preferred Qualifications: * Experience and schedule flexibility to effectively collaborate with USB & Networking group's de-centralized global engineering teams. * Experience in working with high-speed interfaces including USB, PCI Express, Ethernet, etc. * Experience in directly designing electrical circuits/system design/reference design schematic capture with software based PCB design tools (e.g. Altium, Cadence). * Leader/direct contributor in technical role/