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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Mixed-Signal SoC Architect - **Company:** Last Mile Solutions - **Location:** Dresden, Germany - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position - **Skills:** 4G (Telecommunication), Systems Engineering, Bluetooth, C++ (Programming Language), Software Documentation, Computer Engineering, Logic Synthesis of Circuits, Firmware, Python (Programming Language), MATLAB, Software Requirements Analysis, Verification and Validation (Software), SystemC, SystemVerilog, Verilog, Wi-Fi Technology, Digital Access Carrier System, 5G NR, Information Technology, Front End Software Development - **Published:** September 15, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=01395a5518bd6a4b ## About the Role * 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. ## Description * 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., + 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. ## Related Videos - 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