Microchip Technology Inc. has a Software Engineer, FPGA Place and Route opening based in San Jose, California. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing new placement and routing algorithms. In this role, you will be working within the Physical Design team of other software engineers delivering high-performance place and route software. Our placement and routing tools are distributed commercially to a wide range of customers and are used internally for the exploration of new FPGA architectures. We research and implement sophisticated approaches for solving gigantic problems – like finding high-quality placements for millions of movable modules, or routing circuits whose graph representations contain hundreds of millions of edges. To do this, we draw from a variety of computer science domains including Machine learning, Graph Neural Network, Numerical optimization, Linear programming, Boolean satisfiability, Hyper-graph Partitioning, Stochastic search, Graph theory, and Traffic routing. You will work closely with other FPGA Software Engineering teams to help deliver a comprehensive software suite for designing Microchip’s FPGAs and managing the entire design flow from entry, to synthesis, through place-and-route, timing, power analysis, and simulation.