System Architect (#MREG4)

Cirrus - Edinburgh, Scotland - Global - Engineering & Technical

For over four decades, Cirrus Logic has been propelled by the top engineers in mixed-signal processing. Our rockstar team thrives on solving complex challenges with innovative end-user solutions for the world's top consumer brands. Cirrus Logic is also known for its award-winning culture, built on a foundation of inclusion and fairness, meaningful community engagement, and delivering enjoyable employee experiences at every turn. But we couldn’t do it without our extraordinary workforce – and that’s where you come in. Join our team and help us continue to make Cirrus Logic an exceptional place to grow your career! 

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   
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