Senior Engineer II Software Design

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.

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Job Description

A Great Place to Build Your Career

Microchip 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 incorporated in a broad range of products. At Microchip, we work every day to innovate and develop products that solve our customers’ technology challenges. Our team of more than 20,000 people worldwide is dedicated to delivering on the promise of working together to improve lives. Join our community of exceptional people doing incredible things.

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Benefits

At Microchip, our values system empowers our employees to develop and thrive in a supportive, collaborative, professional, global, and rewarding working environment. We embrace change and continuous improvement, driving both to the mutual benefit of ourselves and our clients.

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Be Part of a Winning Team

Microchip’s FPGA software engineering team develops the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) software used by our customers to program Microchip FPGAs. Customers perform their entire FPGA design flow using our software: from design entry, to synthesis, through place-and route, timing, power analysis, and simulation.

As part of a highly skilled and dynamic Software Engineering team, you will have an opportunity to work on DevOps, CI/CD and best quality tools to automate the process of build, release and deployment of Microchip FPGA products. You will be joining an agile, fast-paced engineering team, where you will solve highly challenging yet interesting problems.

About The Position

The candidate for this position will be required to work on CI/CD, developing and supporting software development environment and software regression framework. The candidate needs to have in-depth knowledge of the software build and release process, CI/CD tools and methodology, and scripting proficiency using Python, Perl, or shell scripting. Knowledge and experience with JIRA, Bugzilla, ClearCase, Subversion, Git, BitBucket. In this role, the candidate would work in Hyderabad, India and collaborate with software engineering teams in San Jose California and Armenia.

Job Location: You will join the FPGA Software Design team in Hyderabad.

Responsibilities

• Manage the release process of FPGA software products.
• Proficiency in packaging tools similar InstallAnywhere or QT installer framework
• Assist in the implementation of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) for FPGA software.
• Proficiency in Python, shell scripting, or any other scripting language is mandatory.
• Proficiency in DevOps tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS services is required.
• Automate day-to-day integration tasks.
• Contribute to other integration-related tasks.
• Offer technical guidance, support, and training to junior members of the team.
• Experience with Angular web framework (NodeJS, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch) is a significant advantage.
  
  

• BS/MS in CS/EE/CSE with 6+ years of experience related with software development, software DevOps, or software build and releases.
  
  

• Demonstrated proficiency in automation and experience with Linux/Windows platforms.
• A minimum of 5 years experience with shell scripting, Python, or any other scripting language is necessary.
• Expertise in DevOps and associated tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS services) is required.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline tools and methodology (Jenkins, JIRA, Git, Bitbucket) is highly desirable.
• Exposure to release tools such as the Qt Installer Framework or similar installer tools would be an added advantage
• Highly desirable to have experience with a popular web framework. Experience with the Angular web framework (NodeJS, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch) is an advantage.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, are essential.