Senior RTL & Embedded Security Firmware Engineer (II)

About the role

Microchip Technology is hiring a Senior RTL and Embedded Security Firmware Engineer to work on the hardware design and low-level firmware of a secure FPGA-based programming and HSM platform built on PolarFire SoC devices. The role covers FPGA fabric RTL design, IP core integration and bare-metal / RTOS firmware, and owns the security-critical mechanisms such as tamper detection, zeroization, secure boot and secure field updates. It is a system-level position combining RTL design, embedded firmware, hardware bring-up and debug, and security architecture, with travel time of 0% to 25%.

Key responsibilities

• FPGA design and RTL ownership: design and own the secure FPGA architecture, RTL implementation and high-speed device communications.
• Security hardware mechanisms: develop tamper detection, key protection, zeroization and secure updates to meet certification requirements.
• Low-level firmware: create embedded firmware, bootloaders, drivers and self-test capabilities.
• Architecture, research and specification: evaluate design approaches and produce traceable specifications balancing security, performance, cost and maintainability.
• Hardware bring-up, validation and debug: validate platforms, troubleshoot hardware-software issues and support testing and certification.

Required profile

• 7+ years of experience in FPGA/RTL design and embedded firmware for production hardware.
• Ability to own a technical area end to end, from specification through implementation to validation, with minimal direction.
• Ability to produce clear, rigorous written specifications.

Required skills

• Strong RTL design in Verilog/SystemVerilog or VHDL, including synthesis, timing closure and bring-up.
• Bare-metal and/or RTOS embedded C development.
• Hands-on hardware debug: lab instrumentation, signal-level troubleshooting, board bring-up.
• Working knowledge of secure boot, key storage, tamper response, zeroization and authenticated/encrypted communication.