Staff Digital Design Engineer – SOC Low Power, Clocking & Integration

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.

Staff Digital Design Engineer – SOC Low Power, Clocking & Integration
Austin, TX
 

Meet the Team  

The IoT Digital Design team is a state-of-the-art IC design team focused on producing world class Wireless MCU SoCs. The architecture specifications, design, verification, emulation, and implementation of the Wireless MCU SoCs are all the responsibilities of the IoT Digital team. These SoCs include an embedded CPU system with analog and digital peripherals, advanced security, advanced power management, and best in class radios to support a wide range of wireless IoT applications and standards. We strive to provide advanced technology solutions through innovation in custom RISC-V Cores and AI/ML components.
 

Responsibilities

The Role as a Staff Digital Design Engineer, you will develop world class, highly integrated, low power, System on a Chip device to serve the IoT wireless market. Responsibilities include the following:

• Develop complex SOC/chip Architectures with multiple processors, digital and mixed signal subsystems, multiple power, and clock domains with a goal towards optimizing power for specific customer scenarios.
• Define and implement SoC-level low-power architecture, including power domains, retention, isolation, level shifters, and power sequencing.
• Develop and integrate UPF/CPF-based power intent across subsystem and SoC hierarchies.
• Collaborate with architects to define power management strategies that meet performance, power, and area targets.
• Design and integrate clocking infrastructure, including clock generation, clock distribution, clock gating, clock muxing, reset architectures, and clock monitoring mechanisms.
• Drive RTL design and integration of power management controllers, clock controllers, reset controllers, and related infrastructure IPs.
• Prepare and hold architecture, design, and verification reviews with technical staff throughout project lifecycle
• Analyze and debug low-power and clocking issues identified during simulation, emulation, synthesis, and silicon bring-up.
• Architect and integrate SoC interconnects and bus fabrics, including AXI, AHB, APB, and other on-chip communication protocols.
• Lead small teams of design engineers to architect, design and verify digital subsystems.
• Drive subsystem and SoC integration activities, ensuring seamless connectivity between processors, memories, peripherals, accelerators, and third-party IPs.
• Drive RTL development and integration of infrastructure IPs, including clock controllers, reset controllers, power management controllers, DMA engines, and bus fabric components.
• Analyze and debug integration, clocking, power, CDC/RDC, and protocol-related issues throughout the development cycle.
• Validation/bring-up of designs on silicon, providing support to cross-functional teams
   

Skills You Will Need  

BS/MS in Electrical Engineering

• 10-20 years of professional experience in digital CMOS IC design
   

Minimum Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to lead small teams designing complex digital subsystems
• Strong RTL design expertise using Verilog/System Verilog.
• Solid understanding of SoC clocking architectures, clock domain crossing (CDC), reset domain crossing (RDC), synchronization techniques, and timing considerations.
• Extensive experience with low-power design methodologies, including UPF, power gating, retention, isolation, level shifting, and power-aware verification.
• Strong experience with industry-standard on-chip bus protocols such as AXI, AHB, APB, and related interconnect architectures.
• Experience integrating complex subsystems, processor clusters, memory subsystems, and third-party IPs into large SoCs.
• Knowledge of embedded processor systems and C coding
• Experience with logic simulators for both RTL and gate-level simulation, design/waveform browsers, and power analysis tools
• Experience with logic synthesis and timing constraints
• Experience in working with backend team to optimize design for power performance and area.
• Experience in working with analog and mixed signal designs, to support design integration and verification of these subsystems in SOC.
• Experience with scripting and automation. Knowledge of Python, Perl, and Tcl
• Experience with revision control and configuration management systems (such as Perforce, Git, Methodics)
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Demonstrated ability to generate high output in a self-driven manner

• Experience with artificial intelligence (AI) powered tools and technologies used to enhance productivity, analysis, and decision-making. 

Benefits & Perks 

You can look forward to the following benefits:   
 

• Great medical (Choice of PPO or Consumer Driven Health Plan with HSA), dental and vision plans
• Highly competitive salary
• 401k plan with match and Roth plan option
• Equity rewards (RSUs)
• Life/AD&D and disability coverage
• Flexible spending accounts
• Adoption assistance
• Back-Up childcare
• Additional benefit options (Commuter benefits, Legal benefits, Pet insurance)
• Flexible PTO schedule
• 3 paid volunteer days per year
• Charitable contribution match
• Tuition reimbursement
• Free downtown parking
• Onsite gym
• Monthly wellness offerings
• Free snacks
• Monthly company updates with our CEO

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The annualized base pay range for this role is expected to be between $143,150 - $265,850 USD. Actual base pay could vary based on factors including but not limited to experience, geographic location where work will be performed and applicant’s skill set. The base pay is just one component of the total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include an annual cash bonus, equity package and a comprehensive benefits package.

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.