System Architect (#MREG4)

Cirrus Logic seeks a highly motivated, technically skilled System Architect to join our Systems Architecture team. Responsibility for defining and architect the next generation of Cirrus’s market-leading Mixed signal audio, haptic, power management, precision sensing, and other 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.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with tier 1 customers, marketing, design, software, and applications teams to define the next-generation solutions products for consumer, industrial and automotive electronics markets.
• Detail system and performance requirements generation for IC and accompanying firmware 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 power converters, 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.
• 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 and proven experience designing mixed-signal ICs and some experience performing IC architectural decisions
• Significant experience in architecting, specifying, and designing low-power, mixed-signal components for consumer, industrial, automotive or healthcare 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 application space
• Strong analytical and modelling 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