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Form of workCirrus Logic seeks a highly motivated, technically skilled System Architect to join our Systems Architecture team. Responsibility for defining and architecting the next generation of Cirrus’s market-leading power management, audio, haptic, and other high performance mixed-signal solutions. You will be involved in the complete life-cycle of product development, starting with a strong focus on requirements capture, analysis, concept feasibility study, and solution definition, working directly with design teams on key architecture aspects.
This is a key position in a lively, exciting, and dynamic environment, suited to a candidate with a growth mindset, a strong passion for learning, and a can-do attitude
Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with tier 1 customers, marketing, design, software, and applications teams to define the next-generation solutions products for mobile, consumer and automotive electronics markets.
- Detail system and performance requirements generation for IC and accompanying SW features.
- Determine hardware/software trade-off analysis for key features and requirements, defining the optimal system implementation.
- Establish architecture definition for complex IC/SoC designs involving a range of buck/boost converters, hybrid switch capacitor converters, LED drivers, class AB/D amplifiers, DACs/ADCs, charge pumps, and advanced Digital Signal Processors.
- Lead architecture reviews and participate in IC-level design reviews and board-level design reviews with design engineering, applications, validation and product test engineers.
- Drive domain expertise in Analog and Mixed Signal: lead AMS domain within the System Architecture team to be a technical authority to the wider Company.
- Work with Design Engineering, Advanced Technology, and IP teams on novel solutions to satisfy product and customer needs.
- Contribute significantly to business planning around the Analog and Mixed Signal technology function.
- Communicate ideas and specifications to technical audiences (internal and external customers).
- Be the technical voice of the customer back into the portfolio planning and product development processes.
- Understand finer details of customer architectures, road-maps, and likely evolution of said architectures and work with Marketing to propose the best technical solutions to enhance Customer products.
- Keep abreast of the competitive environment influencing the Customer
Required Skills and Qualifications:
- BEng / MEng in Electronics and Electrical Engineering or related field, and relevant experience designing mixed-signal ICs, including experience performing IC architectural decisions
- Significant experience in architecting, specifying, and designing low-power, mixed-signal components for mobile, consumer and automotive electronics markets
- Good knowledge of analog and mixed-signal IC design techniques (audio circuit design, codec architectures, low-power design techniques, silicon processes, transducers, etc.)
- Broad system-level knowledge across wider mobile application space
- Strong analytical skills
- Excellent commercial awareness
Preferred Skills and Qualifications:
- An innovative and creative problem solver
- Self-motivated and driven, with the ability to manage own workload
- Excellent attention to detail with a strong quality ethic
- Able to work to tight timescales
This role is based in our Edinburgh office in the United Kingdom.
This is a hybrid position and will follow a 2+ day in-office work schedule, with in-office days based on business needs and team preference. You must be based within commutable distance of the work location listed on the job posting, or willing to relocate prior to beginning employment with Cirrus Logic
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