Chief Architect

Silicon Labs, a leading innovator in low-power wireless connectivity, is seeking a highly skilled Senior Staff Engineer to join its team. As a key member of the organization, you will play a crucial role in building embedded technology that connects devices and improves lives.

Your mission will be to merge cutting-edge technology into the world's most highly integrated System-on-Chips (SoCs), providing device makers with the solutions, support, and ecosystems needed to create advanced edge connectivity applications.

This position involves the development of complex SoC/chip architectures with multi-core, multi-threaded processor subsystems, AI accelerators, interconnects, memory architecture, and multi-level caches, multiple clocks and resets, high-speed interfaces, peripherals.

The chosen candidate would need to contribute to, and manage a team for, the development of architecture, microarchitecture, and design of SoCs which include RISC-V, ARM or proprietary processor designs, and high-speed interfaces for off-chip memories, along with the integration of wireless systems, power management, and mixed signal IP.

• Lead the development and execution of Wireless SoC's from definition, through execution, and into production.
• Definition and Planning
• Coordinate with product marketing teams to develop SoC requirements and provide necessary design collateral to support product approval gates.
• Develop and maintain SoC architecture or technical specification to meet product requirements, with a key goal to maximize IP reuse.
• Develop design schedule, including milestones and resource requirements. Coordinate with cross-functional teams on dependencies.
• Project Execution
• Coordinate with global design functional leads to track execution, triage issues, and perform prudent escalation.
• Represent design community to provide succinct weekly status and attend cross-functional meeting. Drive design action items to closure.
• Perform SoC Design Integration and maintain design collateral such as documentation, register libraries, and pinouts delivered to cross-functional teams.
• Follow established quality procedures and processes to achieve first tapeout.
• Validation to Production
• Actively support validation and product test teams during silicon bringup, validation, characterization, and qualification.
• Triage, track, and resolve issues reported during silicon evaluation. Execute metal or full layer revision if necessary.

• 12+ years experience in industry.
• Bachelor or Master's degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering.
• Capable of leading complex IP, SOC development projects execution. Experience coordinating with contractors a plus.
• Top-down planning and execution of SOC projects.
• Experience in full-chip development cycle.
• Able to build strong technical team.
• Hands-on experience in architecture, micro-architecture, digital design processes.
• Knowledge of high-speed interfaces like USB, PCIe, Ethernet, Mobile DDR, Quad/Octa-SPI.
• Knowledge of peripheral interfaces like SDIO, UART, I2S, I2C, PWM, CAN, etc.
• Knowledge of processors like RISC-V and ARM processors.
• Knowledge of design signoff flows including Lint, CDC, Formal Verification, Synthesis, Constraints and STA Timing Closure.
• Knowledge of DFT including Scan, ATPG, MBIST.
• Knowledge of low power design methodology (static/dynamic clock gating, power gating, dynamic voltage and frequency scaling).
• Knowledge of hardware accelerators.
• Knowledge of Verilog and System Verilog.
• Knowledge of scripting languages like Perl, Python, Tcl, shell.

As a Senior Staff Engineer at Silicon Labs, you will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects, collaborate with a talented team, and grow your career in a fast-paced and innovative environment.

Please note that this job description is not exhaustive and may change based on the company's needs.