Mixed-Signal SoC Architect (m/f/x)

Your Responsibilities:

• Responsibility for the technical SoC architecture from the perspective of implementation, integration, and system interdependencies.
• Deriving a technical system and SoC architecture based on product requirements, customer needs, application scenarios, and technical constraints.
• Defining the functional division between analog, RF, digital, firmware, and—where relevant—external components.
• Defining and documenting interfaces between analog, RF, digital, and firmware components, including data, control, timing, clock, reset, power, calibration, and register interfaces.
• Evaluation of the architecture in terms of performance, power consumption, chip area, cost, robustness, testability, development effort, and time-to-market.
• Coordinating the architecture with technical management, project management, and the responsible leads of the involved development departments.
• Taking customer requirements, product goals, and application scenarios into account when making technical architecture decisions.
• Preparing, facilitating, and documenting architectural decisions, design reviews, and technical decision documents.
• Defining interfaces, responsibilities, and handoffs between Systems Engineering, RF/Analog Design, Digital Design, Synthesis & Physical Implementation, Firmware, and Validation.
• Assisting in defining the hardware/software partitioning and in assigning functions and responsibilities among the SoC, firmware, and higher-level system components.
• Assessing the impact of architectural decisions on implementation, verification, integration, silicon bring-up, and subsequent product maintenance.
• Support in defining verification strategies and in mapping requirements to appropriate verification and validation measures.
• Early identification, assessment, and tracking of technical integration risks.
• Support in the preparation and execution of pre-silicon and post-silicon activities through tape-out and beyond.
• Support for the integration of analog, RF, digital, and firmware components into the overall architecture.
• Maintenance of architecture, interface, and decision documentation throughout the entire development lifecycle.
• Serving as a liaison between technical teams, product managers, customer requirements, and project goals.
• Contribute to the further development of architectural methods, review processes, documentation standards, and integration processes within a growing deep-tech company.

Your Profile:

• A degree in electrical engineering, microelectronics, telecommunications engineering, computer science, computer engineering, or a comparable qualification.
• Extensive practical experience in the development and integration of complex SoCs, ASICs, mixed-signal systems, or comparable embedded systems; typically, you have at least ten years of relevant professional experience outside of your studies and internships.
• Proven experience in translating product, customer, and system requirements into a clear, consistent, and implementable system and SoC architecture.
• Practical experience in defining and coordinating interfaces between analog, RF, digital, and firmware components.
• A solid understanding of development and integration processes, from system definition through design and verification to tape-out, silicon bring-up, or product release.
• You can systematically evaluate technical trade-offs between performance, power consumption, die area, cost, robustness, testability, and development effort, and translate them into sound architectural decisions.
• Experience in structuring and facilitating technical decision-making, architecture reviews, and cross-team coordination.
• Excellent communication and coordination skills when interacting with technical leads, project management, product managers, and—where relevant—customers.
• You can convey complex technical concepts precisely, clearly, and in a way tailored to different audiences.
• A structured, analytical, and solution-oriented approach to work, along with a high degree of initiative, personal responsibility, and decision-making ability.
• Good written and spoken English skills for technical documentation and working in an international team.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with
  • mixed-signal SoCs for wireless, communications, or IoT applications.
  • DECT NR+, DECT-2020, 4G/5G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or comparable wireless communication systems.
  • ASIC or FPGA development, SoC integration, tape-out, and silicon bring-up.
  • Hardware/software interfaces, firmware requirements, and register and driver concepts.
  • Architecture and modeling tools, as well as formal or simulation-based system verification.
  • Safety-critical, reliability-critical, or highly energy-efficient embedded systems.
  • Collaborating with customers or product teams, as well as prioritizing and technically interpreting requirements.
  • Establishing or further developing architecture, review, and integration processes in a startup or scale-up environment.
  • Functional partitioning, system modeling, reference models, or early feasibility assessments for complex SoC architectures.
  • RF and analog subsystems, such as ADCs, DACs, PLLs, LNAs, PAs, analog front-ends, digital front-ends, or power management blocks.
• Knowledge of SystemC, MATLAB/Simulink, Python, C/C++, Verilog/SystemVerilog, or comparable modeling and implementation environments.

We offer:

Creative freedom & responsibility

• Ample creative freedom and genuine ownership instead of micromanagement
• Short decision-making paths and direct influence on strategic decisions
• A tangible contribution to the success of our product and company
• The opportunity to play a key role in a growing deep-tech company
• Contributing to a technology that can transform the future of wireless communication
• The opportunity to help shape the architecture of complex mixed-signal SoCs, from the initial system concept through to silicon validation

Benefits

• Employer contribution toward the Deutschlandticket or DVB-Jobticket in the amount of €55.10 per month
• Alternatively, an employer contribution toward the JobRad of €54.90 per month
• Unlimited free access to the gym located right in the building
• Retirement savings and disability insurance with contributions ranging from €100 to €200 per month

Flexibility & Work Environment

• Flexible work hours with core working hours from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
• Hybrid work with a high degree of flexibility
• Modern hardware and professional work equipment
• Bright, modern office spaces in a central location in Dresden
• Ergonomically equipped workstations

Team & Culture

• An international team with flat hierarchies and short lines of communication
• Direct interaction with management and technical decision-makers
• Colleagues who support one another and share knowledge
• Lunch breaks together and regular team events
• A corporate culture in which initiative and new ideas are actively encouraged