Senior Systems 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.

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., BT/BLE, Thread and ZigBee Standards, 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.

What you’ll be 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

• Verify system features meet our customers' requirements

• 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

• Develop and improve systems team processes

Minimum Qualifications

• BSc or MSc in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent with 7+ years of industry experience

• Extensive knowledge of Bluetooth and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) protocols, covering all layers of the stack (PHY, MAC, Link Layer, L2CAP, GATT, GAP, etc.). or 802.15.4 networking stacks, such as Zigbee or Thread

• 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

• Hands-on experience with radio firmware development at the PHY and MAC layers.

• Proficiency in developing and debugging wireless communication protocols.

• Experience with IoT communication protocols such as Z-Wave, Wi-Fi, TCP/IP, or Wi-Sun.

• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English, with the ability to explain technical concepts to a wide range of audiences, including senior engineering leaders.

• Proficiency in using lab equipment such as oscilloscopes, multimeters, spectrum analyzers, and signal generators.

• Experience with modern project management tools (Confluence, Jira, Portfolio Manager, MS Project, etc.).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the semiconductor industry.

• In-depth understanding of hardware IP architecture, development, and verification.

• Experience in embedded software development, including firmware and peripheral handling.

• Knowledge of the IP design process for analog or digital IP.

• Proficiency with electronic bench test equipment such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers.

• Experience with one or more Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) such as FreeRTOS, uc/OS, or Zephyr.