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   

Required Skills and Qualifications:
BEng/MEng and proven experience designing mixed-signal ICs and some experience performing IC architectural decisions Significant experience in architecting, specifying, and designing low-power, mixed-signal components for consumer, industrial, automotive or healthcare markets  Good knowledge of analog and mixed-signal IC design techniques (audio circuit design, codec architectures, low-power design techniques, silicon processes, transducers, etc.) Broad system-level knowledge across wider application space Strong analytical and modelling skills Excellent commercial awareness

Preferred Skills and Qualifications
An innovative and creative problem solver Self-motivated and driven, with the ability to manage own workload Excellent attention to detail with a strong quality ethic Able to work to tight timescales