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 environment
- 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.

Advantages 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)

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