Engineer I - Applications

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Job Description:

The Networking and Connectivity Solutions (NCS) team within Microchip Technology Inc. is looking for a highly skilled Strategic Marketing Manager in our Chandler, AZ / Karlsruhe, Germany office who can drive market strategy and technical positioning for high-speed automotive networking solutions, including Multi-Gigabit Ethernet (up to 10Gbps) and advanced connectivity interfaces. The candidate should be a self-driven individual who is capable and excited to translate complex networking technologies into compelling market opportunities and customer solutions.

What's attractive about this opportunity.

This position will allow you to multiply your knowledge and experience while receiving support from the team as well as the organization.

Key job responsibilities/duties include:

• Promote existing and new solutions to global automotive and industrial customer base
• Solid customer engagement to drive new solution definition and technical requirements gathering
• Create technical demonstrations and proof-of-concepts
• Collaborate with other engineering teams inside and outside of our BU
• Develop technical collateral including application notes, reference designs or software examples
• Support customer evaluations with hands-on technical assistance and custom solutions
• Create early prototypes of future and market leading wired networking products derived from customer input.
• Bring early prototypes to live in an application context.
• Create, release and support firmware examples to support these products on our 8-, 16- and 32bit-MCU/MPUs plus competitor products.
• Create demonstrators to showcase key differentiators of our products together with the marketing and software team and present those in public events.

Requirements/Qualifications:

Qualifications and Technical Expertise

• Bachelors or Masters degree of Electronics, Computer Science or other related fields
• Strong skills in HW development including schematic, layout and procurement.
• Good knowledge and hands-on experience with standard lab equipment like oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, VNA and spectrum analyzers plus debugging capabilities
• Hands-on experience and strong knowledge of Automotive Networking protocols (CAN, CAN-FD, LIN, FlexRay, Automotive Ethernet) and standard network protocols (TCP, IP, UDP, etc.)
• Knowledge of Multi-Gigabit Ethernet Switches (1G/2.5G/5G/10G) and switching architectures are a plus
• Understanding of Linux-based embedded systems and automotive software platforms would be optimal

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