Engineer II - Validation

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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 has been consistently recognized as one of the best places to work by prestigious publications like Forbes, Bay Area News and Phoenix Business Journal. The FPGA Business Unit (formerly Actel, with a 35+ year uninterrupted legacy of providing programmable logic solutions) is one of the largest and most profitable BUs inside Microchip. We have revolutionized the FPGA industry with the industry's most awarded FPGA families - the PolarFire FPGA family and the first RISC-V based PolarFire SoC, delivering class leading power efficiency, reliability and security. With this portfolio, we have enabled commercial applications like the world's most innovative AI-enabled embedded vision and smart automation products, the world's most secure and reliable 5G communications networks, as well as the world's most sophisticated aerospace products that have delivered payloads to Mars and beyond. If you are looking to be a part of a team that is transforming the world of low power compute whilst delivering exceptional top line growth rates, you will be challenged to find a better place to contribute, grow your career and learn to deliver truly remarkable solutions. The successful candidate will be responsible for the following, Use FPGAs to create systems level designs to bring up and debug use models in the lab. Architecture definition and FPGA design creation utilizing all hardware features and IP cores targeted to existing and future Microchip products. System and FPGA design must exercise all the use models targeted for each product mimicking end applications in a customer setting. Develop high level system and product level validation plans for new and existing silicon products and projects, execute per plan. Review dependencies, estimate effort and identify and communicate risk. Understand hardware architectures, define use models and execute / oversee system level design implementations required to utilize the silicon features. Be an effective contributor in a cross-functional team-oriented environment. Write high quality code in Verilog, VHDL and C code. Maintain existing code. Support regression and re-use. Learn new system designs and validation methodologies. Understand FPGA architectures. Collaborate with cross-functional managers/teams to identify and resolve inter-dependencies. Define and improve processes followed in the department; follow quality metrics and assess per project. Must be willing to take late night or early morning calls to interface with engineers working in India Standard Time zone, when and if required. Requirements/Qualifications: Bachelors in EE/CE with 2.5+ years of experience. Industrial experience of FPGA architectures is a must. Possess an understanding of hardware architectures, system level IC design implementation, and knowledge of how to create end use scenarios. Industrial experience in designing with RTL coding in Verilog or VHDL is a must. Industrial experience in using Simulation (ModelSim or Synopsys or Cadence) and Synthesis (Synplicity or Xilinx or Altera) tools. Industrial experience in silicon validation, failure analysis and debug. Industrial experience in embedded firmware development and bringup in the lab Industrial experience in board level debug capabilities in lab environment: hands-on troubleshooting skills for digital logic and analog circuit on PCBs using oscilloscopes, digital analyzers, protocol exercisers and analyzers, FPGA integrated logic analyzers (e.g. Synopsys Identify, Xilinx Chip scope, Altera Signalsco