RF Validation Engineer Intern

Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB) is the leading innovator in low-power wireless connectivity, building embedded technology that connects devices and improves lives. Merging cutting-edge technology into the world’s most highly integrated SoCs, Silicon Labs provides device makers the solutions, support, and ecosystems needed to create advanced edge connectivity applications. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Silicon Labs has operations in over 16 countries and is the trusted partner for innovative solutions in the smart home, industrial IoT, and smart cities markets. Learn more atwww.silabs.com.

Our Engineers solve real-world problems within a highly collaborative team of the industry’s most innovative talent. As a Silicon Labs Intern, you will help create and extend our offering of wireless solutions for smart cities. We count among our customers some of the most recognized and well-respected companies in the world, and innovators in IoT.

You will be part of a highly skilled and tight-knit team where everyone has a significant impact on, and responsibility for, the end product.

The Rennes site is cross-functional and therefore you’ll be part or interacting firsthand with chip and embedded software designers or customer application team. Silicon Labs is a global company, and you’ll have regular interactions with our extended teams across the world. We strive to strike a good work/life balance and make our environment welcoming and fun, so we seek someone whose technical skills are matched by their interpersonal skills.

What You’ll Do

• Projects are specifically tailored to each intern, ensuring a meaningful contribution to both your skillset and Silicon Labs.
• Within our Validation team, in charge of checking and optimizing new modem algorithms and architectures, you will study and help validating some advanced communication techniques.
• In IOT standards, we see emerging needs of transmission in dense harsh environments which demand new test coverage, signal generation, and test technique.
• Based on existing tests and signal generations you will make the necessary adaptations to suit a new test application and analyze possible optimizations through test automation in Python.
• You will evaluate the capability as well of GenAI for testbench generation and verification of a circuit using our lab equipment.

Your tasks will spread over different subjects, function of your expectations, our needs, and evolution of the project:

• Analyze our signal generator code unassisted at first, and then with the help of GenAI tools
• Analyze our test execution code unassisted at first, and then with the help of GenAI tools
• Develop the new signal generation code starting from Matlab script, and checking them on real silicon
• Develop the new fading test code on our Python base test environment and test it on real silicon

Who You Are 

You are an innovator, builder, and tinkerer. You have a curious mind and a drive to succeed. You want to work with a global team of technology enthusiasts and design pioneers. Here’s what you need:

• You are in the last year of a master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, electronics, or similar
• You have some combination of the following skills:
  • RF: RF Instruments, RF measurements, test automation, 802.11, fading, electronics
  • Digital Telecommunication techniques: Signal processing, Digital Communications
  • Software: Matlab, Python, Embedded C, git for versioning tool, Jira, Confluence, PowerBi.

The monthly salary for this position is €1,800.

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.