Principal Engineer Applications

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Job Description:

Department Description

Microchip’s Automotive Information Systems Business Unit (AIS) delivers industry-leading communication semiconductors to support emerging vehicle systems and industrial automation architectures.

The Applications group consists of six teams distributed over the three sites: Austin, Karlsruhe, and Chennai. The department provides interfaces between customers, product marketing, design, validation, and verification teams. We participate very actively in all stages of a product’s life cycle – from early definition of required features to proof of design goals achieved and support of the customers towards their start of production.

What will you do in this position

Reporting to the Senior Manager Applications, you will be part of the Applications group. As a Principal Engineer Applications, you will have a technical and managerial role for the Software Applications team in Karlsruhe and a pure technical role for the team members in Chennai.

Your strong communication and writing skills will assist you while interfacing with various internal design, support, hardware, and marketing teams. You must be able to effectively communicate technical information to individuals with varying levels of expertise and use your technical knowledge to ask and answer customers\‘ questions.

What’s attractive about this opportunity

This position will allow you to multiply your knowledge and experience through your team while receiving support from the organization.

With your team you will:

1. Create early prototypes of future and market-leading wired networking products derived from customer input.
2. Bring early FPGA prototypes to life in an application context.
3. Create, release, and support firmware examples and drivers to support these products on our 8-, 16-, and 32-bit MCU/MPUs plus competitor products.
4. Define and create demonstrators to showcase key differentiators of our products together with the marketing and hardware team and present those in public events.

Key job responsibilities / duties include:

1. Develop and grow the potential in your team from all possible levels.
2. Planning, distributing, and tracking of work packages.
3. Collaborating between teams within the global organization to retrieve and provide necessary information.

Requirements / Qualifications:

1. A Master\’s or Bachelor\’s degree in Electrical Engineering or an equivalent field of study.
2. 7+ years of experience in embedded firmware programming.
3. Excellent motivational and leadership skills to drive distributed development teams.
4. Practical experience with MCU architectures including PIC, dsPIC, and ARM.
5. Very good C/C++ skills.
6. Knowledge of vehicle communications systems including CAN, LIN, Ethernet.
7. Strong spoken and written communication skills.
8. Understanding of automotive embedded system performance and robustness needs.
9. Knowledge of embedded software architecture and vehicle-related standards like AUTOSAR.

Travel Time: 0% – 25%

Application Engineer • Karlsruhe, Germany

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