Hybrid Senior Systems Engineer – Audio Amplifiers, Consumer

at Cirrus Logic

• Job title: Senior Systems Engineer – Audio Amplifiers, Consumer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Austin, United States

About the role

• Senior Systems Engineer designing integrated circuits for consumer audio products at Cirrus Logic. Responsibilities include collaborating with customers, defining specifications, and supporting product roadmaps in Austin, Texas.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with tier 1 customers and internal engineering teams to define system and performance requirements, feature set, and architecture definition for complex IC designs which may be composed of integrated sub-blocks such as ADCs, DACs, Class D amplifiers, general-purpose sensor monitors, Digital Signal Processing (DSP), analog and digital filtering, clocking, analog and digital interfaces, and inter-device communications.
• Gather and consider product requirements such as customers' requirements, system-level components and signals that interface with the IC, digital/analog process technologies, packaging options, design/system constraints and trade-offs and propose viable solutions as a part of the IC specifications and functionality.
• Work directly with marketing, sales, and customers on developing consumer product audio and haptic amplifier roadmaps.
• Communicate ideas and specifications to internal and external technical audiences.
• Author and present IC and system level use cases to the cross-functional silicon development team.
• Generate and author systems requirements and specifications to be used by design, emulation, and test teams.
• Review verification and validation test plans.
• Participate in architecture reviews, IC-level design reviews and board-level design reviews with design engineering, applications, validation and product test engineers.
• Evaluate the ICs in the lab alongside the bring-up, applications, and test teams.
• Perform thorough competitive analysis including lab investigations.
• Participate in industry conferences and forums to ensure device compatibility with adopted standards.
• Travel domestically and internationally approximately 2 – 5 weeks per year to work with customers.
• Autonomously manage contending customer- and project-related priorities.

Requirements

• BS in Electrical Engineering with 5+ years of experience in applications engineering or product definition supporting low/mid power audio amplifiers, Class D amplifiers, or mixed-signal integrated circuits for audio processing in portable electronic products such as smartphones, tablets, laptops, desktop PCs, pro audio, audio accessories (e.g., headphones), etc.
• MS in Electrical Engineering with 5+ years of experience.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Professional development opportunities