Senior Staff System Architect – Power Management
Location
Ireland
Cork or Limerick
Overview
An established global semiconductor company is seeking a Senior Staff System Architect to define and drive the architecture of next-generation digitally controlled power management ICs.
This is a senior, high-visibility role focused on system-level decision making, bridging product requirements, modelling, and IC implementation. You will act as the technical authority guiding designs from concept through to working silicon.
Key Responsibilities
- Define system architectures for advanced digital power management solutions
- Translate market and product requirements into clear architectural specifications
- Select and specify core system and circuit building blocks
- Develop and maintain system-level models to predict and validate silicon performance
- Support delivery from early modelling through to first silicon and production
- Correlate models with real silicon data to support design and verification teams
- Work closely with analog, digital, applications, and product teams across locations
- Document architectures, trade-offs, and results clearly and maintain them over time
- Support applications engineering with debug, simulation, and customer issue resolution
- Lead and mentor engineers, contributing to technical direction and execution
Required Background
- Degree, MSc, or PhD in Electronic Engineering or similar
- 10+ years of relevant industry experience
- Proven experience in system architecture for power or mixed-signal ICs
- Strong background in digitally controlled power management
- Deep understanding of power conversion topologies - Buck, Boost, Buck-boost, PMIC - Voltage regulators
- Expertise in control theory and digital signal processing
- Strong modelling skills using Matlab, Simplis, or similar tools
- Good understanding of IC design constraints and feasibility
- Experience leading or mentoring engineers
- Comfortable working cross-functionally and across time zones
Nice to Have
- Patent history and or published technical papers
- Prior customer-facing or applications support exposure
- Experience influencing product roadmaps or long-term architecture strategy
Why This Role
• Senior technical ownership with real influence
• Work on products used across automotive, industrial, computing, and consumer markets
• Strong collaboration between architecture, design, and product teams
• Long-term stability within a well-established semiconductor organisation
• Opportunity to shape future generations of power management technology
If you are suited and interested - please share with me your updated resume - kelon@microtech-global.com
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