Collaborate with tier one customers, marketing, design, software, and applications teams to define the next-generation solutions products for consumer, industrial and automotive electronics markets
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 power converters, including charge pumps and switching power converters, as well as class AB/D amplifiers, DACs/ADCs, MCUs, and DSPs
Lead architecture reviews and participate in IC-level design reviews and board-level design reviews with design engineering, applications, validation and product test engineers
Work with Design Engineering, Advanced Technology, and IP teams on novel solutions to satisfy product and customer needs
Communicate ideas and specifications to technical audiences (internal and external customers)
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

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering and proven experience designing mixed-signal ICs and some experience performing IC architectural decisions
Good knowledge of either: analog and mixed-signal IC design techniques or digital design techniques (audio circuit design, codec architectures, low-power design techniques, silicon processes, transducers, etc.)
Broad system-level knowledge across the wider application space
Strong analytical and modeling skills

Systems Architect

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