Associate Staff Design Modeling Engineer
silabs · Austin · United States · On-site
Pay: USD 124,600 – 231,400 a year
Posted Sep 23, 2026
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Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB) is the leading innovator in low-power wireless connectivity, building embedded technology that connects devices and improves lives. Merging cutting-edge technology into the world’s most highly integrated SoCs, Silicon Labs provides device makers the solutions, support, and ecosystems needed to create advanced edge connectivity applications. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Silicon Labs has operations in over 16 countries and is the trusted partner for innovative solutions in the smart home, industrial IoT, and smart cities markets. Learn more at www.silabs.com .
Staff Design Modeling Engineer Austin, Texas
Meet the Team
The Digital Subsystems team is responsible for the research and development of digital architectures and IPs from concept to production. We develop compute engines (AI/ML), processors (RISC-V), accelerators, peripherals, and system IP. We develop IC architectures for multi-core, multi-threaded SoCs with an energy-efficient compute backbone for IoT connectivity, security, and sensing subsystems . Our activities include advanced research and development, high-level modeling, architecture, RTL design, timing/power/area optimization, and formal and UVM verification within an automated framework. We value innovation, simplicity, quality, and smart development processes within a highly collaborative and learning-driven team.
Responsibilities
As a Staff Design Modeling Engineer you will help define and execute a cross discipline modeling framework for architecture exploration and enable virtual hardware development. You will work closely with hardware and software architects to help define and validate our future products.
You will:
Architect and develop hardware/software solutions to product-driven requirements
Write functional models to enable IP development
Write performance models to enable architectural analysis
Develop virtual hardware platforms for simulation
Propose improvements to the hardware architecture
Write application-level and driver-level software
Mentor and provide technical leadership to junior modelers
Define and maintain our modeling framework
Skills You Will Need
You are an innovator, builder, and tinkerer. You have a curious mind and a drive to succeed. You want to work with a global team of technology enthusiasts and design pioneers.
Here’s what you need:
Bachelors/MS/PhD Electrical or Computer Engineering degree or similar
Proficiency in C or C++ is required
Knowledge of object-oriented concepts is required
Experience with Embedded C or Assembly is required
Experience in hardware architecture or modeling is required
Experience working in a Linux environment and writing scripts is required
Knowledge of building executables and libraries from source is required
Digital Design and verification experience is desired
Experience with a modeling framework is required (e.g., Renode, Python, Modern C++, or SystemC)
Experience with CMake,…