Graduate Virtual Development Platform Software Engineer

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Graduate Virtual Development Platform Software Engineer

Apply locations Ireland - Dublin time type Full time posted on Posted 4 Days Ago job requisition id R4904-23

Are you looking for a unique opportunity to be a part of something great? Want to join a 20,000-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.

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Job Description:

Department Descritpion:

The FPGA Division offers a broad portfolio of low and mid-range density FPGAs that lead the industry in their low power consumption, reliability, and security capabilities. Our devices are unique in their use of non-volatile, instant-on technology that enables our FPGAs to deliver 30 to 50 percent lower power than competing FPGAs, immunity to radiation, and unique security features. Our FPGAs, SoC FPGAs, and Radiation Tolerant FPGAs meet high-bandwidth connectivity and high-data throughput needs in applications such as Hybrid and Electric Vehicles, Communications IoT Infrastructure, Industrial Controls and Automation, Spacecraft, Commercial Aircraft, and Defense Equipment.

What will you do in this position:

Reporting to the Embedded Systems Solutions director, you will be part of the FPGA division’s Software and Systems Engineering group. As a Virtual Development Platform Software Engineer you will work on developing Microchip’s SoC.FPGA virtual platform development tools.

What’s attractive about this opportunity.

This role provides the opportunity to work on cutting edge technologies, creating virtual development platforms allowing to emulate/simulate complex RISC-V based SoC FPGA system as part of architectural explorations and pre-silicon embedded software development.

Key job responsibilities/duties include:

• Develop and upstream QEMU support for Microchip’s SoC FPGA

• Develop co-simulation tools allowing to develop embedded software targeting simulated hardware

• Adapt open-source and commercial tools to analyze SoC FPGA architectural options

Requirements/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Electrical / Electronics.

• Applications will be accepted from candidates who may not meet the educational requirements but have equivalent industry experience as demonstrated on their cv.

• Fluency in C#

• Fluency in Verilog

• QEMU internals

• Verilator

• QuestaSim or other commercial RTL simulation tools

• Knowledge of embedded systems and processor architectures

• Good communication and problem-solving skills

• Experience working with Git and Continuous Integration tools (Jenkins)

• RISC-V processor architecture experience is an advantage

• Security and encryption technologies is an advantage

• Familiarity with FPGA system design is an advantage

Travel Time:

No Travel

About Us

At Microchip, employees are our greatest strength. As one of the top performing semiconductor companies in the world, we are led by a set of guiding values and a mission to become the very best embedded control solutions company ever. We work tirelessly to create a company culture that highlights how important every employee is to our mission.