Jobs at Silicon Labs

Defines and drives the digital IP portfolio roadmap, aligning product needs, architecture, design, applications, customers, and industry standards. Prioritizes IP development opportunities, coordinates global IP teams, manages change processes, evaluates technical feasibility and tradeoffs, and builds cross-functional alignment. The role requires deep semiconductor and RTL design experience, strong SoC knowledge, and the ability to guide roadmap decisions across a portfolio of more than 200 IPs.

Lead and manage the Software Quality Assurance function: define test strategy, establish QA processes and metrics, oversee test automation and CI/CD integration, coordinate with engineering and product teams to ensure release quality, mentor and grow the QA team, and manage hiring and resource planning.

Develop and maintain Python/Pytest automated tests for embedded wireless products, focusing on Bluetooth Low Energy features. Own test planning, strategy, coverage, CI execution, debugging, root cause analysis, and quality improvements. Collaborate with developers, product managers, application engineers, and global QA teams to resolve defects and communicate testing risks. The role also uses AI-assisted development tools, supports continuous integration, and validates firmware and embedded products.

Develop timing constraints and signoff methodologies for low-power wireless SoCs and IP. Improve static timing analysis flows, establish timing criteria, analyze reports using scripting, and drive timing closure across global design and multifunctional teams. The role addresses complex clocking, timing corners, aging, on-chip variation, signal integrity, mixed-signal IP integration, and functional and test modes.

Lead hardware product management for IoT wireless SoCs from concept through product definition and customer alpha. Define requirements, features, specifications, system KPIs, evaluation tools, and product roadmaps across wireless protocols and embedded technologies. Collaborate with IC design, software, validation, test, marketing, applications, operations, and sales teams. Conduct competitive and die-level analysis, develop technology investment business cases, manage product portfolios, and present strategic recommendations to executives.

Leads verification of complex digital RTL blocks for wireless modem baseband and PHY-layer IPs. Develops SystemVerilog/UVM environments, testbenches, verification plans, constrained-random tests, coverage models, and C-based reference-model integrations. Performs bit-exact verification, debugs RTL and testbench issues, verifies mixed-signal datapaths, and collaborates with design, systems, and SoC teams to resolve integration challenges and deliver reliable wireless SoCs.

Design and develop synthesizable RTL for wireless modem digital baseband and PHY-layer IPs. Define microarchitecture, implement DSP blocks, optimize power, performance, and area, and support verification, synthesis, lint, CDC, RDC, integration, and debugging. Collaborate with modem systems, verification, analog, and SoC teams to deliver high-quality wireless IPs for Wi-Fi and low-power IoT devices.

Plans and executes wafer fabrication, assembly, and test operations across outsourced semiconductor manufacturing partners. Manages production schedules, supplier performance, inventory, SAP and APS planning data, customer commitments, supply risks, and recovery plans. Collaborates cross-functionally on demand planning, procurement, logistics, quality, new product introductions, product transfers, and process improvements.

Provides technical leadership for complex wireless SoC development from product definition through architecture, design, integration, verification, tapeout, silicon bring-up, validation, and production. Owns chip-level technical decisions, execution planning, risk management, design closure, and cross-functional coordination. Leads resolution of architectural, implementation, and silicon issues while ensuring functional, performance, power, area, cost, and quality objectives are achieved.

Plans and coordinates semiconductor production cycles, wafer, assembly, and test releases based on demand and inventory. Monitors WIP, production output, customer orders, supplier delivery, cycle-time performance, purchase orders, inventory audits, and SAP transactions. Works with suppliers and contract manufacturers on materials, shipments, BOMs, and issue resolution. Participates in SAP and Adexa system enhancements as a planning domain expert.

Own the design, implementation, testing, release, and customer resolution of complex Bluetooth Low Energy stack features. Develop embedded C software and APIs, perform feasibility analysis, review designs and code, create automated tests, measure performance, support SDKs and CI tools, contribute to wireless specifications, and guide engineers through difficult technical decisions.

Engineering internship focused on wireless IoT development. Responsibilities include developing embedded applications, writing Python tools for automated testing and measurements, testing wireless systems, supporting hardware and software integration, analyzing results, and debugging with wireless test equipment. Candidates should study a relevant technical field, have C and Python programming experience, and be interested in embedded systems and wireless technologies. SDR, GNU Radio, RF fundamentals, wireless protocols, and electronics knowledge are preferred.

Develops and executes verification strategies for digital modem designs in low-power wireless products. Builds SystemVerilog/UVM test environments, test plans, benches, and stimuli; drives functional and code coverage; debugs design issues; collaborates with architecture, firmware, validation, and system teams; supports silicon bring-up and pre- versus post-silicon correlation; and improves verification automation and methodologies.

The description provides limited role-specific information, stating only that the Staff Platform Engineer position supports Silicon Labs’ embedded, low-power wireless connectivity and SoC technology initiatives. Responsibilities and qualifications are marked as “tbd.”

Develop and maintain low-level embedded software for low-power wireless MCUs and SDKs. Own features from requirements through release, optimize real-time firmware for performance and power efficiency, debug hardware-software issues, support silicon bring-up, develop automated testing, and collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams. The role also includes code reviews, technical design discussions, and mentoring engineers.

Designs digital circuit blocks and SoC infrastructure, including RTL implementation, IP integration, bus and memory interfaces, clocking, power and reset management. Verifies blocks and mixed-signal/RF integrations using directed, random, assertion-based, modeling, and cosimulation methods. Develops embedded firmware for SoC validation and contributes to architecture, design, verification reviews, technical specifications, reference manuals, and datasheets.

Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, build systems, test infrastructure, and release processes for embedded Wi-Fi software. Improve automation, developer productivity, monitoring, telemetry, cloud infrastructure, and operating costs. Establish software delivery standards, metrics, documentation, and workflows while collaborating with infrastructure, SRE, and cross-functional engineering teams.

Develops and executes verification plans for SoC, IP, and mixed-signal designs. Builds SystemVerilog/UVM testbenches, creates directed and constrained-random tests, drives coverage closure, develops assertions, analyzes regressions, and debugs RTL across simulation and emulation. Collaborates with architecture, design, firmware, and validation teams; improves automation and CI flows; supports pre- and post-silicon debugging; and mentors junior engineers.

Performs block-level and SoC verification for wireless MCU system-on-chips using directed, random, and assertion-based methods. Verifies mixed-signal and RF IP integration through modeling and cosimulation, develops embedded firmware for SoC validation, participates in design and verification reviews, and prepares customer-facing reference manuals and datasheets.

Develop and integrate synthesizable RTL for mixed-signal IPs, including ADC/DAC interfaces, PLL/DLL controls, power management, and sensor front-ends. Collaborate with analog, verification, architecture, and SoC teams on interface specifications, behavioral modeling, co-simulation, design reviews, lint, CDC, RDC, synthesis readiness, coverage closure, debugging, and full-chip integration. Improve automation, reusable design methodologies, and mixed-signal IP development flows.