Microchip Technology Inc.
Principal Engineer-Software
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Job Description
Microchip Technology Inc. has a Principal Engineer-Software opening based in Austin, TX. The Secure Computing Group (SCG) is seeking a highly motivated candidate to join the Applications Engineering team. This role will provide technical leadership for the architecture, development, integration, and deployment of embedded firmware and platform software solutions for Secure Computing products, with a focus on Embedded Controllers (EC), secure boot, root-of-trust technologies, TrustZone-enabled systems, and next-generation secure computing platforms.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field with 10+ years of relevant industry experience.
- Experience in embedded firmware and software development for microcontrollers, embedded processors, and secure computing platforms.
- Expert-level programming skills in Embedded C and strong scripting capabilities using Python.
- Strong understanding of ARM architectures, Linux environments, and command-line build systems.
- Experience developing software for Cortex-M based platforms including TrustZone-enabled architectures.
- Experience with Trusted Firmware-M (TF-M), PSA concepts, secure and non-secure partitioning, and trusted execution environments.
- Strong understanding of secure boot, root-of-trust, device attestation, cryptographic provisioning, key management, and firmware resiliency architectures.
- Experience with cryptographic technologies including AES, RSA, ECC, ECDSA, SHA and modern security frameworks.
- Experience with Zephyr RTOS, FreeRTOS, Chromium EC firmware, and embedded software architecture.
- Experience with communication protocols such as I2C, I3C, SPI, eSPI, UART, USB, and related embedded interfaces.
- Experience with embedded debugging tools, oscilloscopes, protocol analyzers, and system-level troubleshooting.
- Experience in software deployment, verification, validation, and customer product enablement.
- Strong problem-solving, technical leadership, mentoring, communication, and customer-facing skills.
- Proven ability to lead technical initiatives across geographically distributed teams and influence product strategy through innovation and architectural leadership.
Preferred Qualifications
- Understanding of DICE, CDI, SPDM, eROT, secure provisioning, firmware update, and recovery architectures.
- Experience with Embedded AI, TinyML, TensorFlow Lite Micro, CMSIS-NN, or AI inference deployment on resource-constrained systems.
- Knowledge of AI model optimization, secure AI deployment, and edge intelligence frameworks.
- Familiarity with cybersecurity standards, secure development practices, and emerging industry compliance requirements.
Skills & Technologies
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Employment Type
Full Time
Experience Level
Senior
Location
Austin, TX
Posted
3 days ago
Country
US