
Technical Staff Engineer - Applications
Allentown, PAJob$91–232K/yrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Microchip Technology seeks a Technical Staff Engineer - Applications to support tier-one customers and field teams with FPGA/SoC design and debugging. The role includes advanced technical consulting, design reviews, product characterization, training, and development of customer-facing technical materials. The successful candidate will bring extensive FPGA-based architecture experience, embedded processor expertise, and strong technical communication and problem-solving abilities.
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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. Visit our careers page to see what exciting opportunities and company perks await! Job Description: Microchip Technology Inc. is a leading provider of embedded control applications. Our product portfolio comprises general purpose and specialized 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit microcontrollers, 32-bit microprocessors, field-programmable gate array (FPGA) products, a broad spectrum of high-performance linear, mixed-signal, power management, thermal management, radio frequency (RF), timing, safety, security, wired connectivity and wireless connectivity devices, as well as serial Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM), Serial Flash memories, Parallel Flash memories, and serial Static Random Access Memory (SRAM). We also license Flash-IP solutions that are incorporated in a broad range of products. Microchip Technology Inc. has a Technical Staff Engineer - Applications opening based in San Jose, CA .The successful candidate will be responsible for the below actions. 1. Engage with our tier1 customers and our field teams to help with pre and post Sales support on design/debug of FPGA/SoC designs. 2. Provide advanced-level consulting and technical support (remotely and on-site) to tier1 customers through product demonstrations, creation of design examples and reference designs, presenting advanced FPGA/SoC design and timing-closure techniques, debugging hardware bring-up issues. 3. Demonstrate authority on all or most phases of FPGA/SoC design, including requirements analysis, HDL code development and simulation, embedded hard and soft processor system design, synthesis optimizations, place-route and timing constraints, timing closure, board-level schematic reviews, and FPGA hardware development and debug tools. 4. Lead/participate in cross-functional teams across the BU, present proposals and get buy-ins to improve existing solutions or to develop solutions for future products. 5. Participate in functional block reviews, product characterization and rollout, tools' ease-of-use discussions with senior Engineering and Marketing experts in the BU. 6. Train field & technical support engineers with new Microchip FPGA/SoC products & tools. 7. Drive early adoption & evaluation of advanced debugging & software flows, IP cores, and kits in the team. 8. Create customer-facing collateral, application notes, reference designs, white papers on advanced interfaces and solutions for Microchip FPGA/SoC products. Requirements/Qualifications: 1. Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering/Science; Mas ers degree is preferred 2. 12+ years of relevant industry experience with FPGA-based architecture definition, design, and support, including Embedded Processor and High-Speed Serial IO. 3. 5+ years of experience with lab equipment such as oscilloscopes and signal analyzers. 4. Advanced level domain expertise in one or more FPGA/SoC design/debug expertise - DDR memory interfaces and protocols, Transceiver and high speed serial interfaces, timing closure techniques, FPGA synthesis and simulation, Embedded Cortex or RISC-V processor/microcontrollers etc, Serdes and high-speed serial interfaces and protocols. 5. Must have in-depth experience with FPGA devices and eco-systems from at least 1 major FPGA supplier (Microchip or Xilinx or Altera) 6. Must have embedded processor experience with knowledge of C, development on Linux, and software debug tools such as Keil, IAR or Eclipse. 7. Experience with Libero, or Vivado or Quartus Design Software, as well as EDA tools for FPGA design is required. 8. Board level experience including power supply decoupling, high speed signal terminations and routing. 9. System level debug with the ability to dig into system level issues to assist clients in identifying the root cause. 10. Expert level experience with VHDL/Verilog, C. 11. Excellent communication & problem-solving skills, and ability to independently drive issues to closure. 12. Hard-working and committed; ability to handle stress and multi-task in a dynamic customer-centric environment. 13. Must be a self-starter and an excellent team-worker. Travel Time: 0% - 25% Physical Attributes: Feeling, Other, Seeing, Talking, Works Alone, Works Around Others Physical Requirements: 10% sitting, 10% walking, 80% sitting, 100% in doors; Usual business hours Pay Range: We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive base pay, restricted stock units, and quarterly bonus payments. In addition to these components, our package includes health benefits that begin day one, retirement savings plans, and an industry leading ESPP program with a 2 year look back feature. Find more information about all our benefits at the link below: Benefits of working at Microchip The annual base salary range for this position, which could be performed in the US, is $91,000 - $232,000.* *Range is dependent on numerous factors including job location, skills and experience. Microchip Technology Inc is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information on applicable equal employment regulations, please refer to the Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal ... For full info follow application link. Microchip is an Equal Opportunity/Af
How this job compares
Set against the 4,159 open Technical Support jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$91–232K/yr
- Pennsylvania median$64–108K/yr33 salary ranges
- US median$72–116K/yr1,378 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $162K, is 88% above the Pennsylvania median midpoint ($86K) — in the top quarter of Technical Support salary ranges in Pennsylvania.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 124 open Technical Support jobs in Pennsylvania and 4,159 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 12 years of experience — more than three in four Technical Support postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 2,593 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 336 of the 4,159 open Technical Support jobs (8%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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