Digital Design - Senior Staff Architect (16+yrs of expereince)

We are Silicon Labs. We are a leader in secure, intelligent wireless technology for a more connected world. 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, grow economies and improve lives.

Meet the Team

The Digital Subsystems (DSS) team is responsible for the research and development of digital IP, Subsystem, and IC architectures from concept to production. We develop compute engines, processors, accelerators, peripherals, and system IP. We develop IC architectures for multi-core SoCs with an energy-efficient compute backbone for IoT connectivity, security, and sensing subsystems. We define system solutions along with Marketing, Systems, and Software teams with the Silicon Labs AI/ML, RISC-V, Vision, Audio/DSP, Display, Modeling, and Compute workstreams. Our activities include advanced research and development, high-level modeling, architecture, RTL design, timing/power/area optimization, and formal and UVM verification within an automated framework. We value innovation, simplicity, quality, and smart development processes within a highly collaborative and learning-driven team.

Responsibilities

As a technical leader within an advanced digital architecture team, you will be responsible for product definition through requirement gathering, consensus building, analysis, and modeling using your extensive knowledge of system, IC, and IP design. You will work closely with marketing, IC and IP design, modeling, and software teams. IPs include subsystems, accelerators, peripherals, system IP, advanced I/O, and processors. Upon joining Silicon Labs, your experience and resourcefulness will expand our wireless, AI, vision, display, and audio capabilities by optimizing compute, interconnect, and memory systems to produce the industry's most connected and energy-efficient IoT Wireless MCUs.

• Clearly defining architectures by authoring architectural specifications
• Exploring and investigating system solutions through hardware/software partitioning
• Analyzing usecases and mapping them into a proposed architecture
• Analyzing proposed architectures for power, performance, and area trade-offs
• Gathering, analyzing, and developing requirements
• Communicating and presenting your ideas
• Reviewing micro-architectural specifications

Skills You Will Need

Minimum Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience in building SoC interconnect, smart caches, and memory systems
• Demonstrated experience in defining and designing high-complexity designs (accelerators, processors, bus-fabric, DMA, complex I/O peripherals, etc.)
• Excellent understanding of embedded systems, their hardware-software partitioning, workloads, and features
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Good understanding of:
• Low power design, architectures, and strategies
• Asynchronous design, synchronization techniques, and strategies to minimize latency
• Security and isolation in areas such as root-of-trust, secure communication, bus level security, etc.
• Hardware powerup and secure software bootstrapping
• HDL-based RTL logic design
• Front-end design tools, methodologies, and flows
• Debug in simulation, FPGA, and silicon environments
• Design for Test and Manufacturing

Preferred Experience & Skills (any of the below):

• Experience with human-interface devices (microphones, speakers, cameras, displays, etc.)
• Experience in design of microprocessors (pipeline, execution units, buses, etc.)
• Experience in design of math-centric designs (security primitives, DSP units, AI/ML, etc.)
• Scripting skills (BASH, UNIX commands, TCL, Perl, etc.)
• Experience in high-level system modeling (Python, C++, SystemC, Renode, etc.)
• FPGA emulation

Benefits & Perks:

You can look forward to the following benefits:

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Insurance plans with Outpatient cover
• Flexible work policy

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.