Senior Systems Design Engineer (DSP)

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, groweconomiesand improve lives.

Meet the Team

SiliconLabs Systems Team’s mission is to ensure our products have the right features and technologies to win in our target market segments. The teamis responsible forgenerating technical requirements for our products by researching system requirements from the application level to the SoC feature level.

The Role

This roleentails researchingtargeted 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 viastrong comprehension of variousstandards, tearing down end-applications, engaging ourcustomer’sengineering 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 torequirementsgeneration and documentation, this role willidentifyand prototype high-value innovations, generate internal collateral, train internal audiences, and publish technical whitepapers.

Whatyou’llbe doing

• 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

• Ensuringour products have the right features and technologies to win

• Using a requirements management tool to capture market and product requirements and track them throughdevelopment

• Helpingtotrain 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 

Minimum Qualifications

• BSc or MSc in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent with7+ years of industry experience

• A strong understanding of embedded microcontroller architectures and features

• A good understanding of embedded application design: requirement analysis,HW design, firmwareand applicationdevelopment, 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. Mustbe 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 inuse ofmodern project management tools (Confluence, Jira, Portfolio Manager, MS Project, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experiencein the semiconductor industry

• Goodunderstanding of hardware IP architecture,developmentand verification

• Experience working withHigh-SpeedInterfaces (USB, Ethernet, QSPI, or display buses)

• Knowledgeinmux configurations and planning on pin constrainedpackages

• Knowledge in the IP Design process foranalog or digital IP.

• Basic knowledge of security and functional safety

• Basic knowledge of HW accelerators, DSPalgorithmsand edge computing

• Experience with one or more RTOS – Free RTOS, uc/OS, Zephyr preferred