Lead Software Engineer

Meet the Team

Bluetooth Software represents one of the key strategic technologies and fastest growing businesses for Silicon Labs. Bluetooth is not just a standalone technology and business for Silicon Labs but it’s also a key technology part of Silicon Labs’ 802.15.4 and Proprietary multi-protocol solutions.

The Bluetooth team is at the forefront of Bluetooth, Direction Finding and Bluetooth mesh development and delivers first in the world, unique and secure solutions for global tier one customers. We work closely with the Silicon IC Design team to define the new features and functionality in our IoT ICs. We are also active in BT SIG, driving new Bluetooth specifications forward with ensured interoperability.

Responsibilities  

• Provide top-notch technical leadership to the team.

• Besides own work, technically mentor junior team members.

• Be one of the technical leaders on Bluetooth software development in Silicon Labs Hyderabad team, and contribute to prototyping, technical decisions, design, implementation, automated and manual dev testing, and technical reviews.

• Technically lead an agile team to deliver new features.

• Own products / features.

• Build plans for your team to deliver complex new features based on team capacity and productivity.

• Provide a fully transparent view on the status of the team and the deliverables to management.

• Coordinate deliveries and actions between the teams in global scale

• Balance innovation with execution to ensure that the projects are delivered in a timely manner.

• Drive new process changes within IoT Software organization to enable more efficient execution of our teams.

Skills You Will Need

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of hands-on embedded software development.

• Very substantial and proven C programming knowledge.

• Strong background in highly resource-constrained, real-time, embedded environments

• Professional working experience with embedded solutions, protocols, and products, related to Bluetooth (BTC/BLE).

• Detailed understanding and hands-on experience in software development lifecycle and methodologies, including traditional Agile and waterfall methods.

• Very good understanding and hands-on experience in continuous integration and test automation methodologies.

• Sound knowledge in Bluetooth and Low energy Link layer & Link manager protocols.

• Strong understanding of snoop & OTA logs.

• Experience in the use of modern project management tools (Confluence, Jira, Git, Gerrit etc.)

• Experience leading the interviewing and hiring of new full-time engineers and CWFs.

• Experience working within a global organization.

• Excellent communication skills

• Proven ability to work with cross-functional teams in different locations.

The following qualifications will be considered a plus:

• Experience working at a semiconductor company.

• Basic understanding of hardware IP architecture, development, and verification.

• Proficiency with electronics bench test equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, etc.

• Radio firmware experience at the PHY / MAC layers.

• Additional knowledge of BLE Audio.

• Additional knowledge of some IoT or other communication protocol stacks like Zigbee, Z-Wave, Wi-Fi, TCP/IP, or Wi-Sun

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

• Scripting experience in Python or equivalent language.

• Knowledge of assembly language.

• Knowledge of Open AI and other AI tools to increase the team’s efficiency.

• Experience in interfacing with Bluetooth SIG members.

• Knowledge of Audio DSP, Bluetooth codec.

Benefits & Perks

Not only will you be joining a highly skilled and tight-knit team where every engineer makes a significant impact on the product; we also strive for good work/life balance and to make our environment welcoming and fun. 

• Equity Rewards (RSUs) 

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) 

• Insurance plans with Outpatient cover 

• National Pension Scheme (NPS) 

• Flexible work policy 

• Childcare support