Lead Applications Engineer – WiFi (NPI Apps)

About the role

Silicon Labs leads low‑power wireless connectivity. As Lead Applications Engineer – WiFi (NPI Apps) in Hyderabad, you will drive early customer engagements, translate use‑cases into technical requirements, validate end‑to‑end Wi‑Fi systems, debug across layers, and influence product roadmap. You’ll collaborate with R&D, Product, and customers to ensure Wi‑Fi products reach production readiness and meet certification standards.

What you’ll do

• Lead Alpha/Beta customer engagements for Wi‑Fi products
• Act as primary technical point of contact for NPI customers
• Translate use cases into technical requirements for R&D and Product teams
• Drive end-to-end customer enablement from evaluation to production readiness
• Validate end-to-end system use cases beyond individual features
• Identify gaps in SDK, features, documentation, tools before GA
• Ensure production readiness for key customer deployments
• Provide structured feedback to improve product quality and usability
• Own customer issues end-to-end: reproduce, debug, elevate, close
• Debug across application, TCP/UDP, IP, Wi‑Fi MAC/PHY, system level
• Analyze connectivity, throughput, power, coexistence, certification issues
• Use Wireshark, iperf, spectrum analyzers, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers
• Define and drive debug infrastructure requirements (logs, traces, crash dumps)
• Enable efficient field issue triage and root cause analysis
• Work with R&D to improve system observability and debuggability
• Define and develop use‑case-driven sample applications
• Contribute to SDK examples, application notes, developer documentation
• Ensure documentation completeness and usability for customer adoption
• Work closely with R&D, Product Management, Segment teams, FAEs
• Influence product roadmap and feature prioritization based on customer insights
• Support certification, interoperability, ecosystem readiness

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor's/Master's in CS/EE or related field
• 8+ years embedded Wi-Fi development, system validation, or applications engineering

Nice to have

• Customer-facing or applications engineering experience
• Multi-protocol wireless systems (Wi-Fi + BLE + Matter + Zigbee)
• Wi-Fi certification and regulatory processes familiarity
• Embedded Linux or host-based networking experience
• Wireless security concepts knowledge
• Familiarity with Jira, Salesforce, or similar platforms

Skills

Benefits

• Equity Rewards (RSUs)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Insurance plans with Outpatient cover
• National Pension Scheme (NPS)
• Flexible work policy
• Childcare support

Education

Bachelor