Engineer II - Software

Location: India - Chennai

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

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:

The Solutions team is a fast-moving engineering group established to support tactical customer opportunities and rapid-turnaround development activities while offloading customer-specific customization work from the Product Development organization.

The team operates with high agility and close customer engagement to accelerate deployments, validate new use cases, support strategic accounts, and bridge short-term market requirements with the long-term product roadmap.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• Design and implement embedded software and firmware components in a fast-paced development environment.
• Rapidly prototype and validate customer-specific features, integrations, and enhancements.
• Develop quick-turn firmware solutions while maintaining software quality and reliability standards.
• Support customer feature requests, defect reports, and tactical opportunities with accelerated timelines.
• Work directly with customers and cross-functional teams to understand deployment and system requirements.
• Translate customer requirements into implementable firmware and embedded system solutions.
• Perform debugging, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions for customer and system issues.
• Verify software components at unit and integration levels and support embedded system integration activities.
• Own end-to-end technical deliverables while contributing to software architecture, coding standards, and development best practices.

• Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline from a university or equivalent institution.
• Strong experience in embedded software and firmware development.
• Strong programming experience in C/C++.
• Experience with object-oriented programming (OOP).
• Experience with RTOS, embedded Linux, or low-level embedded systems.
• Familiarity with Ethernet networking technologies and embedded communication protocols.
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with version control systems and software development workflows.
• Fluent English language skills (written and spoken).

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