Intern - Applications Engineering

Microchip Technology Inc. is a global organization that designs technology powering the world. They are seeking an Applications Engineering Intern to assist the Applications team in various tasks including developing tools, debugging, and providing technical support.

What you'll do:

• Setting up lab equipment including installation of OS, Drivers, tools, debuggers, analyzers etc
• Bring-up and debug customer evaluation boards
• Develop and maintain customer collaterals, custom firmware and diagnostic tools
• Recreate, collect, analyze, debug and root cause customer reported problems in a lab environment
• Develop and provide product training to customers and internal teams
• Demonstrate new product features, capabilities in industry events and trade shows
• Performance and power measurement and analysis

What they're looking for:

• Currently enrolled in BS or MS Electrical/Computer/Computer Science Engineering program
• Basic understanding of computer architecture
• Programming experience in any one of the following: C, C++, TCL/Tk, Python, Java
• Good troubleshooting and debugging skills
• Good writing and communication skills
• Experience with installing OSes (Linux and Windows), setting up hardware and drivers
• Strong knowledge or experience in any one of the protocols or technologies (e.g. NVMe, PCI-Express, SAS, SATA, Fibre Channel, Ethernet, DDR, NAND Flash, UART, SPI etc.)
• Experience with board-level debug & bring-up
• Experience with HW design, schematics capture, and board layout
• Experience with driver development / embedded FW development

Benefits:

• Benefits of working at Microchip
• Microchip’s nationally-recognized Leadership Passage Programs support career growth where we proudly enroll over a thousand people annually.