Engineer II - Applications (Embedded Wireless Applications Engineer)

Microchip — Chennai

₹6–10 LPA (HireSetu estimate) · Entry level · Freshers eligible · Full-time · onsite

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Quick answer: An entry-level embedded role in Chennai where a big chunk of the week goes to solving other engineers' wireless problems, with the rest spent building demos and sample firmware. The wireless stack you actually know counts for more than a long peripheral list.

From Microchip's job posting

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Job Description

Microchip is seeking an entry-level Wireless Systems Applications Engineer to provide customer support and develop sample applications for

embedded wireless controllers and SoC products.

  • Develop innovative solutions to address design challenges and issues reported by global clients.
  • Collaborate with internal engineering teams and fellow applications engineers to implement new features and optimize solutions.
  • Create technical resources, including knowledge base articles, application notes, training presentations, and instructional videos, to educate customers and internal teams.
  • Design and develop demo applications and sample projects showcasing real-world use cases of wireless products in embedded systems.
  • Validate, test, and release SDKs and software framework packages to ensure high quality and reliability.

Requirements/Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Systems Engineering or a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Systems Engineering.

  • Embedded software development experience, including bare-metal and framework-based development
  • Strong hands-on experience in C and C++ programming
  • Solid understanding of wireless technologies and hands-on experience integrating and debugging protocol stacks, including
  • Good knowledge of protocol stacks and the OSI networking model, particularly for wireless systems Wi‑Fi, Bluetooth/BLE, and IEEE 802.15.4.
  • Experience with RTOS (e.g., FreeRTOS, Zephyr, or Linux-based systems)
  • Experience with 8/16/32-bit microcontrollers and peripherals such as ADC, DAC, PWM, RTC, WDT, and timers/counters
  • Knowledge of communication interfaces: I2C, SPI, UART, CAN, and USB
  • Exposure to hardware design concepts, including schematics and PCB layout (highly desirable)
  • Familiarity with Microchip microcontrollers/processors, wireless solutions, touch technology, and FPGA documentation is an added advantage
  • Proficient in using digital oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and protocol sniffers
  • Strong ability to debug complex system-level embedded issues
  • Execute reference designs, customer projects, and application notes to drive design-ins and design-wins
  • Assist customers in designing, developing, integrating, and troubleshooting embedded applications
  • Provide creative solutions and workarounds to resolve customer design and implementation issues
  • Collaborate with customers and internal teams to resolve open issues and meet design requirements
  • Ability to work effectively in a dynamic, global, and virtual team environment
  • Develop and deliver technical training for customers and field engineers
  • Excellent written and spoken English communication skills
  • Strong customer support, presentation, and interpersonal skills
  • Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and able to multitask with minimal supervision
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Good organizational and project management skills, including schedule and status reporting.

Travel Time

0% - 25%

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HireSetu's note

Debugging from a bug report

The customer-facing half is what freshers underestimate. You get a description, sometimes a partial schematic, sometimes just "it stops working after an hour", and you have to reproduce it, narrow it down and explain it back. That means reading code someone else wrote with a logic analyzer running. If every project so far has been code you wrote and fixed yourself, this is the step up.

Two wireless stacks, deeply

The requirements name Wi-Fi, Bluetooth/BLE and IEEE 802.15.4 together, because the team picks up whatever product lands on its desk. You do not need all three. One project where you brought a stack up, paired a device and read a sniffer trace carries more weight than a list of courses. Embedded C and C++ are the daily tools, and FreeRTOS or Zephyr shows up in most sample apps. Microchip's own IDE and code configurator are free to download, and a weekend with them is cheap preparation.

Two years in, the doors this opens

Applications engineering sits between the silicon and the customer. Two years in, you know one wireless family properly and have app notes with your name on them. That is a workable bridge into a silicon design team, a field applications role with more customer time, or product marketing. A good first job if you like explaining things and can live with interrupted work.

Sort the support model out early

Ask how customer requests reach you: a ticket queue, a field engineer, a distributor, a direct email from a design team. Ask which product line you would start on and who reviews your first app note before it goes public. Travel is listed at up to a quarter of the time, so find out where it goes, whether that is customer visits or training sessions. The answers tell you how much of the week is heads-down.

Drafted with AI from Microchip's job posting and checked by Prashanth Jakkula before publishing. See our Editorial Policy.

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