Application Engineer II

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.

What does the Embedded Applications Engineering team do? 

 
Silicon Labs applications engineers areutilizing their domain specificexpertise to provideengineering technical collateral like documentation, code examples, and customer technical support related to our IoT products, including multi-protocol wireless SoC’s, and ARM Cortex-based MCU’s. Silicon Labs wireless portfolio includes many different transceivers and wireless MCUs for applications like Bluetooth, Zigbee/Thread, Z-Wave, Wi-Fi, and proprietary wireless radios. Our devices simplify design effort and accelerate time to market for a wide range of communications applications. 

The Embedded Applications Engineering team at Silicon Labs is a critical link between our products and the end customer’s success, and its primary function is to support our customers’ rapid prototyping and development of their systems using our products. We are application and product experts who provide our customers with technical guidance and contribute to the knowledge base and technical documentation for the products.  

We are committed toadapt AI tools andleverage the possibility bystate of the art technologies.  

Learn more about our wireless solutions here: https://www.silabs.com/products/wireless 

What You Will Do 

In this role you will be working with world leading IoT customers integrating Silicon Labs products into their next-generation wireless products shaping the world of tomorrow.Primary activities include providing advanced technical support to customers, creating technical collateral anddocumentation and working with internal teams onimproving software quality and developer experience via early feedback from the customer perspective. A wide range of technical activities is involved in this role: 

• Providing technical support on complex MCU and peripheral related issues, which involves analyzing the system (architecture,code, execution), reproducing issues, and narrowing down to system parameters or embedded softwarecomponent via gathering further evidence and designingadditional tests (debugging). 

• Developingproof of concept designs andexample codetoshowcase the competitive advantage of our products in different application fields.Developing tools tooptimize and streamline repetitive tasks. 

• Creating and reviewing technical collaterals, including knowledge base articles, quick start guides, application notes, and code examples. 

• Collaborate with IC design, software engineering and marketing teams on product evaluations and new product definition 

• Use AI tools on a daily basis for coding,documentation and customer supporttask.  

Education and Skills for Success: 

• BSc or MSc degree in Electrical Engineering,Computer Science or equivalent 

• Strong embedded C programming skills: Ability to troubleshoot and debug code, devices, and systems 

• Understanding of embeddedsystem concepts (e.g. memory management,interrupt handling, build process),as well as sub-systems andperipherals (e.g.energy and clock management,timers,ADC, DAC, SPI, I2C, UART) 

• Experiencewith using instruments for debugging (e.g. multimeter, oscilloscope, logic analyzer) 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English 

Bonus Skills and Experience 

• Experience with embedded or real-time operating systems (e.g.FreeRTOS, Zephyr,Micrium) 

• Experience with bootloaders 

• Experience with hardware design,prototyping 

• Experience with customer-facing technical interactions and working in distributed teams 

Benefits and Perks at Silicon Labs 

Notonlywillyou bejoining ahighly-skilled andtight-knit teamwhereeveryengineermakes asignificantimpactonthe endproduct,wealsostriveforgoodwork/lifebalance andtomakeourenvironmentwelcoming andfun. 
 
Youcanalsolookforwardtothefollowingbenefits: 

• Annual Budapesttravelcardor parking intheofficegarage 

• Greatcafeteriasystem 

• OpportunitytojoinEmployment StockPurchasePlan 

• Privatehealthcareaccess 

• Life andaccidentinsuranceforeveryemployee 

• Contributionto avoluntaryprivatepensionfund 

• AYCMcardoption 

• Possibilitytomeetwiththeexecutive teamregularly 

• Supportive andmulticulturalofficewithenthusiastic,hard-workingcolleagues 

• Weprioritizethetimeforsocialactivities,competitions,afterworkdinners andsomuch more! 

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.