Senior Systems Design Engineer (DSP)

Silicon Labs•Austin, TX

23h•Hybrid

About The Position

Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB) is the leading innovator in low-power wireless connectivity, building embedded technology that connects devices and improves lives. Merging cutting-edge technology into the world’s most highly integrated SoCs, Silicon Labs provides device makers the solutions, support, and ecosystems needed to create advanced edge connectivity applications. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Silicon Labs has operations in over 16 countries and is the trusted partner for innovative solutions in the smart home, industrial IoT, and smart cities markets. Learn more at www.silabs.com. Systems Design Engineer (DSP) Austin, TX Our integrated hardware and software platform, intuitive development tools, unmatched ecosystem, and robust support make us the ideal long-term partner in building advanced industrial, commercial, home, and life applications. We make it easy for developers to solve complex wireless challenges throughout the product lifecycle and get to market quickly with innovative solutions that transform industries, grow economies and improve lives. Meet the Team Silicon Labs Systems Team’s mission is to ensure our products have the right features and technologies to win in our target market segments. The team is responsible for generating technical requirements for our products by researching system requirements from the application level to the SoC feature level. The Role This role entails researching targeted applications (E.g., Smart Appliances, Doorbells, E-Metering) or technologies (E.g., Dual Core Architecture, SW Modeling) and generates requirements to drive our IoT hardware and software roadmaps. Requirements are created via strong comprehension of various standards, tearing down end-applications, engaging our customer’s engineering teams, and performing feasibility studies of new system-level solutions or optimizations. These requirements are documented in our requirements management tool and used to develop our product roadmap. In addition to requirements generation and documentation, this role will identify and prototype high-value innovations, generate internal collateral, train internal audiences, and publish technical whitepapers.

Requirements

BSc or MSc in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent with 7+ years of industry experience
A strong understanding of embedded microcontroller architectures and features
A good understanding of embedded application design: requirement analysis, HW design, firmware and application development, bench evaluation, and debugging
Basic knowledge of wireless radios and protocols (e.g., Bluetooth, ZigBee, Wi-Fi)
Excellent written and oral communication skills in English. Must be comfortable explaining technical concepts to a wide range of audiences, including senior engineering leaders.
Experience using lab equipment: oscilloscopes, multimeters, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, etc.
Experience in use of modern project management tools (Confluence, Jira, Portfolio Manager, MS Project, etc.)

Nice To Haves

Experience in the semiconductor industry
Good understanding of hardware IP architecture, development and verification
Experience working with High-Speed Interfaces (USB, Ethernet, QSPI, or display buses)
Knowledge in mux configurations and planning on pin constrained packages
Knowledge in the IP Design process for analog or digital IP.
Basic knowledge of security and functional safety
Basic knowledge of HW accelerators, DSP algorithms and edge computing
Experience with one or more RTOS – Free RTOS, uc/OS, Zephyr preferred

Responsibilities

Collaborating with Product Marketing to guide our technical product roadmap
Collaboration with engineers at our driver customers
End-application teardown analysis
Technical research on standards and applications
Feasibility studies of potential system-level innovations
Ensuring our products have the right features and technologies to win
Using a requirements management tool to capture market and product requirements and track them through development
Helping to train internal audiences on new applications, features, and technologies
Providing the deepest level of technical support to customer-facing teams
Providing mentorship and guidance to less experienced team members
Develop and improve systems team processes

Benefits

Great medical (Choice of PPO or Consumer Driven Health Plan with HSA), dental and vision plans
Highly competitive salary
401k plan with match and Roth plan option
Equity rewards (RSUs)
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
Life/AD&D and disability coverage
Flexible spending accounts
Adoption assistance
Back-Up childcare
Additional benefit options (Commuter benefits, Legal benefits, Pet insurance)
Flexible PTO schedule
3 paid volunteer days per year
Charitable contribution match
Tuition reimbursement
Free downtown parking
Onsite gym
Monthly wellness offerings
Free snacks
Monthly company updates with our CEO