SiTime
System Architect, Synchronization & Timing
$139K–$191K
California, Santa Clara · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum of 10 years.
- Education
- BS in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
About the job
Serves as SiTime’s timing expert for datacenter, AI, 5G, and networking applications, guiding customer system architectures and supporting product strategy and design wins.
What you'll do
- Build technical relationships with customers and advise on timing architecture and clock-tree design.
- Collaborate with marketing on product roadmap and lead industry and standards initiatives in time synchronization and RF.
- Support strategic accounts and reference-design partners, and create customer technical education materials.
What they ask for
- At least 10 years of datacenter, networking, or telecom experience as a timing architect or timing-related system engineer.
- In-depth knowledge of telecom standards, including GR-1244, IEEE1588/PTP, NPT, GPS/GNSS, G.8262, and SyncE.
- Deep understanding of time-synchronization architectures and measurement methods, with hands-on timing instrumentation experience.
- Design or applications-support experience for synchronized timing products; ability to engage in technical and architectural discussions.
Nice to have
- MS degree preferred.
- Experience with standards bodies such as ITU-T Study Group 15, IETF (TICTOC, NTP), IEEE (1588, 802.1), and MEF (MBH).
Pay
$138,800.00 – $190,850.00 USD annual base salary
Tools
GR-1244, IEEE1588/PTP, NPT, GPS/GNSS, G.8262, SyncE, ITU-T, IETF
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