Embedded Applications Engineer

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.

We are Silicon Labs. We are the leading provider of silicon, software and solutions for a smarter, more connected world. 
 
We hire the most innovative talent in the world to solve the industry’s toughest problems, providing our customers with significant advantages in performance, energy savings, connectivity and design simplicity. Silicon Labs’ software and mixed signal engineering teams create solutions for customers in the diverse markets of the Internet of Things (IoT). Our solutions are in products from the market leaders in home automation, electric vehicles, green technology, smart TVs and home voice control automation. We take pride in our products and in our people, and that’s one of the many reasons we continue to be awarded Most Respected Public Semiconductor Company by the Global Semiconductor Alliance. 

What does the Home & Life Embedded Applications Engineering team do? 
Silicon Labs applications engineers are utilizing their domain specific expertise to provide engineering technical collateral like documentation, code examples, and customer technical support related to our IoT products, including multi-protocol wireless SoC’s, and ARM Cortex-based MCU’s. Silicon Labs wireless portfolio includes many different transceivers and wireless MCUs for applications like Bluetooth, Zigbee/Thread, Z-Wave, Wi-Fi, and proprietary wireless radios. Our devices simplify design effort and accelerate time to market for a wide range of communications applications. 

The Embedded Applications Engineering team at Silicon Labs is a critical link between our products and the end customer’s success, and its primary function is to support our customers’ rapid prototyping and development of their systems using our products. We are application and product experts who provide our customers with technical guidance and contribute to the knowledge base and technical documentation for the products. 

Learn more about our wireless solutions here: https://www.silabs.com/products/wireless 

What You Will Do 

In this role you will be working with world leading IoT customers integrating Silicon Labs products into their next-generation wireless products shaping the world of tomorrow. Primary activities include providing advanced technical support to customers, creating technical collateral and documentation and working with internal teams on improving software quality and developer experience via early feedback from the customer perspective. A wide range of technical activities is involved in this role: 

• Providing technical support on complex MCU and peripheral related issues, which involves analyzing the system (architecture, code, execution), reproducing issues, and narrowing down to system parameters or embedded software component via gathering further evidence and designing additional tests (debugging). 

• Developing proof of concept designs and example code to showcase the competitive advantage of our products in different application fields. Developing tools to optimize and streamline repetitive tasks. 

• Creating and reviewing technical collaterals, including knowledge base articles, quick start guides, application notes, and code examples. 

• Collaborate with IC design, software engineering and marketing teams on product evaluations and new product definition 

Education and Skills for Success: 

• BSc or MSc degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent 

• Strong embedded C programming skills: Ability to troubleshoot and debug code, devices, and systems 

• Understanding of embedded system concepts (e.g. memory management, interrupt handling, build process), as well as sub-systems and peripherals (e.g. energy and clock management, timers, ADC, DAC, SPI, I2C, UART) 

• Experience with using instruments for debugging (e.g. multimeter, oscilloscope, logic analyzer) 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English 

Bonus Skills and Experience 

• Experience with embedded or real-time operating systems (e.g. FreeRTOS, Zephyr, Micrium) 

• Experience with bootloaders 

• Experience with hardware design, prototyping 

• Experience with customer-facing technical interactions and working in distributed teams 

Benefits and Perks at Silicon Labs 

Not only will you be joining a highly-skilled and tight-knit team where every engineer makes a significant impact on the end product, we also strive for good work/life balance and to make our environment welcoming and fun. 
 
You can also look forward to the following benefits: 

• Annual Budapest travel card or parking in the office garage 

• Great cafeteria system 

• Opportunity to join Employment Stock Purchase Plan 

• Private health care access 

• Life and accident insurance for every employee 

• Contribution to a voluntary private pension fund 

• AYCM card option 

• Possibility to meet with the executive team regularly 

Supportive and multicultural office with enthusiastic, hard-working colleagues 

We prioritize the time for social activities, competitions, after work dinners and so much more! 

Silicon Labs is an equal opportunity employer and values the diversity of our employees. Employment decisions are made on the basis of qualifications and job-related criteria without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.