Job Description
Microchip’s Data Center Solutions (DCS) Business Unit offers industry-leading performance, reliability, and security for Storage Controllers, PCIe Switches, and NVMe solutions. As a Technical Staff Emulation Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for our Enterprise Flash Controller product line and be responsible for architecting and executing emulation strategies for complex $300M+ gate devices that power next‑generation data centers and accelerators.

Responsibilities

Develop our next generation Data Center Storage products, including enterprise class NVMe Solid State Drive (SSD) controllers and other PCIe based products

Provide technical leadership through all phases of silicon ASIC development

Work with industry standard protocols such as PCIe, ONFI, AMBA AXI, SAS and DDR4/5 and third party Accelerated Verification IPs (AVIPs)

Evaluate emulation platforms and provide recommendations

Build and maintain emulation platforms with design variants

Support emulation activities in pre and post silicon development phases

Stay current on the latest SOC trends and innovations and incorporate them into emulation flows

Develop Simulation Acceleration testbenches using Cadence Palladium flow and support emulation bring‑up and post silicon debug

Work on Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) based testbench architecture, test plan development, simulation and coverage

Develop C based testcases at full chip and review of architectural and microarchitecture specifications

Develop synthesizable Bus Functional Models (BFM)



for various protocols and interfaces used in SoC design and emulation

Debug and root‑cause design, testbench and emulation platform related issues

Requirements / Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Computer engineering (Master’s degree preferred)

12+ years of relevant industry experience in ASIC development, emulation

Excellent problem solving and debugging skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Teamwork and time‑management skills, setting direction, ability to work under pressure and desire to excel in a competitive setting

Experience with all aspects of the SoC/ASIC emulation and verification flow

Experience with PCIe based Enterprise Flash Controller design

Experience with emulation platforms, preferably Cadence Palladium and Protium emulation platforms

Experience with ARM, RISC‑V and/or MIPS CPUs is an asset

Experience with PCIe, DDR, and ONFI/Toggle NAND is desired

Experience with on‑chip interconnect and cache coherency

Travel Time
0% – 25%

Pay Range and Benefits
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 IESPP program with a 6‑month look‑back feature.

Benefits of working at Microchip

Annual base salary range for this position is $107,000 – $226,000 (Range is dependent on numerous factors including job location, skills and experience)

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📌 Technical Staff Engineer - Emulation (British Columbia)
🏢 Microchip Technology
📍 British Columbia