Senior Engineer - SW Design (RAIL)
Silicon Labs2 days ago
Hyderābād, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain embedded software for low-power wireless MCUs and SDKs.
- Own hardware-feature support across design, pre-silicon verification, post-silicon verification, release, and long-term support.
- Build low-level firmware including device drivers, initialization and startup code, timing-sensitive system software, and radio control features.
- Optimize real-time embedded software for performance, reliability, power efficiency, and memory and CPU utilization.
- Debug issues across software, firmware, hardware, and system boundaries using lab tools and debuggers.
- Collaborate with hardware, silicon, systems, and product teams on requirements, design reviews, and new-device bring-up.
- Contribute to automated testing, validation, development tooling, code reviews, and design reviews.
- Mentor and support other engineers through technical guidance and best practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of professional embedded software or firmware development experience.
- Strong programming skills in Embedded C and/or C++.
- Experience developing for microcontrollers in resource-constrained, real-time environments using bare-metal and/or RTOS-based systems.
- Hands-on hardware/software debugging experience with tools such as debuggers, JTAG/SWD, oscilloscopes, or logic analyzers.
- Experience with low-level embedded software, including device drivers, interrupts, peripheral interfaces, timing-sensitive code, or memory-constrained systems.
- Experience taking features from design through implementation, testing, and release.
- Preferred experience includes wireless technologies, communication stacks, radio control, PHY/MAC functionality, low-power optimization, embedded interfaces, Python, automated testing, silicon bring-up, multi-core microcontrollers, concurrency, and hardware validation.
- Familiarity with assembly on ARM, RISC-V, or similar MCU architectures is preferred.
- Experience with AI-powered development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and ChatGPT is preferred.
Benefits
- Equity rewards in the form of RSUs.
- Insurance plans with outpatient coverage.
- National Pension Scheme (NPS).
- Flexible work policy.
- Childcare support.
- Work in a collaborative team with an emphasis on impact, technical growth, and work/life balance.
About Silicon Labs
Silicon Labs designs and sells low-power wireless SoCs, MCUs, modules, and software stacks for IoT device makers in smart home, industrial, and commercial markets. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, it is a public company on NASDAQ (SLAB) and provides SDKs and development tools supporting Bluetooth, Zigbee, Thread, Matter, and sub‑GHz protocols.