System Architect (#MREG4)

In this System Architect role, you define and shape Cirrus Logic’s next-generation mixed-signal solutions for audio, haptic, power management and sensing. You will work across design, marketing, and applications teams to capture requirements, assess feasibility, and define architectures for IC/SoC designs. You’ll lead architecture reviews and collaborate with IP, design, and validation to align customer needs with product roadmaps. This is a chance to influence high‑impact products at a company known for its inclusive culture and industry leadership.

• hybrid work arrangement
• inclusive culture
• meaningful community engagement
• opportunity to work with world-leading brands
• employee-friendly culture
• career growth opportunities

• Collaborate with customers, marketing, design, software and applications teams to define next-gen solutions for consumer, industrial and automotive markets
• Detail system and performance requirements for ICs and firmware features
• Perform hardware/software trade-off analyses to determine optimal system implementation
• Define architectures for complex IC/SoC designs including power converters, amplifiers, DACs/ADCs, charge pumps, and DSPs
• Lead architecture reviews and participate in IC-level and board-level design reviews
• Coordinate with Design Engineering, Advanced Technology and IP teams on novel solutions
• Contribute to business planning for Analog and Mixed Signal technology
• Communicate ideas and specifications to technical audiences (internal and external)
• Be the technical voice of the customer in portfolio planning and product development
• Understand customer architectures and roadmaps to propose optimal technical solutions
• Stay informed on competitive landscape influencing customer needs

• BEng/MEng with proven experience designing mixed-signal ICs and making IC architectural decisions
• Experience architecting, specifying, and designing low-power, mixed-signal components for multiple markets
• Strong knowledge of analog and mixed-signal IC design techniques (audio circuits, codecs, low-power design, silicon processes, transducers)
• Broad system-level knowledge across wider application space
• Strong analytical and modelling skills
• Excellent commercial awareness

• Innovative and creative problem solving
• Self-motivated with the ability to manage own workload
• Excellent attention to detail and quality mindset
• Mixed-signal IC design
• Analog and mixed-signal design techniques
• Low-power design