Design Engineering Manager

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More about Silicon Labs:
We are Silicon Labs. We are the leading provider of silicon, software and solutions for a smarter, more connected world.

We hire the most innovative talent in the world to solve the industry’s toughest problems, providing our customers with significant advantages in performance, energy savings, connectivity and design simplicity. Silicon Labs’ software and mixed signal engineering teams create solutions for customers in diverse markets including the Internet of Things, (IoT), internet infrastructure, TV tuners, as well as automotive and consumer radios. Our solutions are in products from the market leaders in home automation, electric vehicles, green technology, smart TVs and home voice control automation. We take pride in our products and in our people, and that’s one of the many reasons we continue to be awarded _Most Respected Public Semiconductor Company _by the Global Semiconductor Alliance.

Overview:
As a Digital Design Manager focusing on digital design and verification of wireless PHY and MAC layer IPs and systems for low-power System-on-Chip IoT products, you will join a specialized team of IP/SoC engineers driving multiple wireless communications technologies such as Bluetooth Low-Energy, 802.15.4 Zigbee/Thread, 802.11 Wi-Fi and proprietary short-range wireless.

You will be part of a highly skilled and tight-knit team where everyone can have significant impact on, and responsibility for, the end product. The Rennes site is cross functional and therefore you’ll be interacting firsthand with software, validation and customer support teams. We strive to strike a good work/life balance and make our environment welcoming and fun, so we seek someone whose technical and management skills are matched by their interpersonal skills.

What You'll Do:

- Leads design team through the product development cycle including specifications, technical choices, design, integration, verification
- Contributes to define design approaches and flow for design team.
- Attends design reviews to provide input and monitor the quality and effectiveness of design reviews.
- Oversees evaluation of design results by laboratory measurements to assure technical and performance objectives are met.
- Establish design schedules and ensures they meet corporate requirements.
- Communicates technical information and schedules to senior members of the management team.
- Participates in product definition, market studies and business case studies for new products and provides input on future products.
- Manages the development of innovative new designs for patenting or protecting as trade secret.
- Researches design techniques through technical publications and seminars.
- Provides hands-on technical leadership and training for design staff.
- Conducts annual performance reviews of subordinates.
- Recruits, selects, develops, and motivates the best engineers to ensure the efficient operation of the function.
- Receives assignments in the form of objectives and determines how to use resources to meet schedules and goals.
- Acts as an advisor to subordinates to meet schedules and/or resolve technical problems. Develops and administers schedules, performance requirements, may have budget responsibilities.

What skills you need:

- Degree in Electrical Engineering (Signal Processing background is a plus)
- 8+ years of professional experience in digital design and verification
- Advanced knowledge of digital design and design flows, including RTL design (system Verilog), simulations, integration, implementation
- Advanced knowledge of RTL block-level or chip-level verification
- Advanced understanding of design tradeoffs for performance, power and size
- Familiarity with quality systems documentation and procedures
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills (Fluent English)

Considered as a plus
- Experience with Matlab or other high-level modeling language/tool for designing and evaluating communication systems and algorithms
- Experience with laboratory measurements, some knowledge of RF parameters and constraints
- Experience with FPGA emulation
- Knowledge of scripting/language (perl, shell, tcl, python)

What we offer:
- Meal vouchers for lunch-
- Employee Referral Program-
- Employee Wellness Program-
- Paid days for philanthropy/volunteering-
- Partial home working possibility- We prioritize the time for social activities, competitions, after work dinners and so much more
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status._