What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Technical Lead - Embedded Software position at Cirrus Logic?
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Cirrus Logic is seeking a Senior Technical Lead to guide the technical direction, prioritization, and execution of the software team developing Windows drivers and related embedded software that enable advanced audio experiences in next-generation PCs. This role is ideal for an experienced embedded developer who has evolved toward technical leadership - someone who thrives on collaborating with customers and internal partners, aligning engineering work to business requirements, and ensuring the team is focused on the right solutions at the right time.
In this position, you'll work closely with engineering peers, program management, applications teams, and external customers to drive clarity, direction, and alignment across a complex and fast-moving product space. You will be the central point of technical understanding across products and customers, facilitating conversations, identifying priorities, resolving ambiguity, shaping the hands-on development and debug activities of the team, and ensuring efficient and effective execution.
Responsibilities- Technical Direction & Alignment
- Drive clarity on technical direction for new features, customer requirements, and long-term software evolution
- Facilitate discussions across developers to ensure alignment on architecture, design decisions, debug approaches, and implementation plans
- Maintain broad visibility into current and upcoming customer engagements, ensuring engineering priorities map cleanly to business needs
- Act as the central collection point of technical understanding; synthesize inputs from multiple engineers into unified plans and recommendations
- Execution & Cross-Functional Leadership
- Work closely with program management and engineering partners to plan development, track progress, and adapt priorities as needed
- Represent the Windows driver team in cross-functional forums with hardware, firmware, applications, marketing, and external partners
- Participate in customer calls, ensuring technical clarity, capturing requirements, and communicating impact and expectations back to the team
- Coordinate with developers on complex investigations - ensuring issues are understood, resourced, and aligned with overall priorities
- Quality, Efficiency & Continuous Improvement
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, test coverage, automation, or debugging workflows and collaborate with software leadership to drive changes
- Recognize emerging architectural or quality risks early and guide toward proactive mitigation
- Support documentation, knowledge sharing, and communication practices that enable scale across platforms and customers
- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field
- 8 years of experience in embedded, systems-level, or low-level software development (microcontrollers, embedded DSPs, Linux/Windows kernel, or equivalent)
- Experience working closely with customers and cross-functional partners to define requirements, plan development, and resolve complex issues
- Experience leading technical direction, architecture discussions, or feature planning within an embedded software team
- Understanding of OS architecture concepts such as concurrency, synchronization, interrupts, and hardware/software interaction
- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate between engineering detail and business priorities
- Experience integrating software with hardware systems, including familiarity with serial buses and protocols (I2C, SPI, I2S, HDA, SoundWire or similar)
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities across system boundaries
- Experience with CI/CD processes and systems, automated testing, and code quality tools
- Experience with kernel-mode driver development (Windows or Linux)
- Familiarity with PC system architectures and chipset-level integration
- Experience with Python, C , or scripting for automation or tooling
- Interest in team-level improvements to quality, automation, or development processes
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