Senior Manager - Software Design Wi-Fi

This role requires a leader who can balance engineering depth with organizational effectiveness. You will develop engineering talent, drive execution against ambitious goals, and foster a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.

You will serve as Product Owner for your team's backlog and priorities while leading a high-performing engineering team to deliver robust, high-performance software on schedule.

Key Responsibilities

· Own end-to-end delivery of critical Wi-Fi software components, ensuring they meet performance, reliability, quality and schedule commitments.

· Lead, mentor, and grow a team of embedded software engineers.

· Contribute technically through design reviews, architecture discussions, debugging, and hands-on development.

· Drive Agile development practices — ensuring effective backlog management, sprint planning, and delivery execution while fulfilling product owner responsibilities.

· Collaborate with architects, hardware designers, QA, and applications engineering to ensure seamless integration and successful product delivery.

· Promote and continuously improve software development best practices and team culture — fostering craftsmanship, accountability, and long-term sustainability in the way we build software.

· Ensure rigor in software quality by driving unit testing, functional testing, continuous integration, and verification practices across the team.

Required Qualifications

· Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field.

· 14+ years of professional software development experience, with 5+ years in engineering management roles.

· Proven experience developing embedded software, firmware, or systems software for complex products.

· Strong hands-on coding skills in C and debugging expertise at the hardware/software boundary.

· Strong exposure to CI/CD pipelines, integration testing, and performance benchmarking frameworks.

· Experience leading teams delivering production-quality embedded software in complex systems.

· Knowledge of Wi-Fi protocol stacks and wireless communication standards.

· Solid understanding of Agile/Scrum development practices and product ownership.

· Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to guide both technical direction and team growth.

· Demonstrated success hiring, coaching, and developing engineers while building high-performing teams.

· Familiarity with hardware accelerators, SoC architectures, and performance optimization.

· Familiarity with Linux driver development.

Benefits & Perks

Not only will you be joining a highly skilled and tight-knit team where every engineer makes a significant impact on the product; we also strive for good work/life balance and to make our environment welcoming and fun.

· Equity Rewards (RSUs)

· Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

· Insurance plans with Outpatient cover

· National Pension Scheme (NPS)

· Flexible work policy

· Childcare support.

Silicon Labs is an equal opportunity employer and values the diversity of our employees. Employment decisions are made on the basis of qualifications and job-related criteria without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.