Technical Staff Engineer - Applications & Systems - TX - Addison, United States
Applications & FAE
Originally posted 14 October 2026 by the employer.
The Timing & Communications Group (TCG) Systems and Applications Engineering team supports a broad portfolio of clocking and timing solutions, including oscillators, clock generators, jitter attenuators, and network synchronization products.
About the role
The Technical Staff Engineer-Applications & Systems role combines applications engineering (customer support) and systems engineering (product definition) for Microchip’s clocking and timing products.
What you'll do
- Maintain up-to-date industry knowledge related to clock & timing
- Author product definition specifications
- Lead technical trade-off decisions (such as power, size, cost, jitter)
- Author product datasheets and application notes
- Perform competitive analysis and create competitive analysis reports
- Solve technical problems with customer’s system related to clock & timing
- Debug and troubleshoot product operation using specialized clock & timing equipment in Microchip’s lab
What you'll need
- USA citizenship
- USA residency
- Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with 12.5+ years of relevant industry experience
- Strong knowledge of clock & timing technology
- Strong knowledge of clock & timing products and product operation
- Knowledge of specialized clock & timing equipment (such as phase noise analyzers) and the control thereof (such as writing python or TCL scripts)
- Working knowledge of embedded C programming language
Skills: applications engineering, systems engineering, clock & timing, customer support, product definition