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About the Role

Silicon Labs is seeking a Staff Platform Systems Engineer to serve as the technical bridge between customers, product management, and engineering. This role involves evaluating customer use cases, analyzing system architectures, identifying technical risks, and translating market opportunities into clear product definitions for next-generation scalable compute platforms for IoT edge applications.

Responsibilities

• Work with business segment managers, customers, Product Management, and field teams to understand emerging market trends, customer requirements, and future product opportunities.
• Translate customer use cases into clear product, system, and architectural requirements that guide new product development.
• Drive and conduct technical feasibility studies for new product concepts and identify technical risks, assumptions, and mitigation strategies early in the planning process.
• Lead cross-functional technical investigations involving technical and non-technical audiences.
• Build alignment across diverse technical teams by communicating complex findings and driving decisions.
• Contribute to product requirement documents, architecture proposals, competitive analyses, and supporting technical collateral for executive and engineering reviews.
• Collaborate closely with R&D throughout product planning to ensure proposed solutions are feasible, scalable, and aligned with business objectives.
• Present technical recommendations and product direction to internal leadership as well as strategic customers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in EE or related engineering discipline required.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in embedded systems, wireless products, systems engineering, or technical product definition.
• Experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives is highly desirable.
• Strong embedded software development or embedded systems design background.
• Experience with wireless embedded systems and wireless communication protocols.
• Experience with systems engineering, product definition, or product architecture.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex technical problems involving both hardware and software.
• Experience evaluating architectural trade-offs and translating customer requirements into product requirements.
• Ability to rapidly learn new technologies and evaluate emerging market trends.
• Proven ability to independently drive technical investigations.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills to influence cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience working directly with customers to understand needs and influence product direction.
• A track record of solving ambiguous technical problems with limited initial guidance.

Skills

• embedded systems
• wireless products
• systems engineering
• technical product definition
• embedded software development
• embedded systems design
• wireless embedded systems
• wireless communication protocols
• systems engineering
• product definition
• product architecture
• hardware and software analysis
• architectural trade-offs
• customer requirements translation
• technology learning
• emerging market trend evaluation
• technical investigation leadership
• cross-functional stakeholder influence
• customer needs understanding
• product direction influence
• ambiguous technical problem solving
• core compute architecture (ARM cores, AXI/AHB interconnects)
• PPA (Power, Performance, Area) trade-offs
• power and die size estimation
• AI or machine learning within embedded or connected systems
• building products using Silicon Labs devices or similar embedded wireless platforms
• gateways
• wearables
• robotics
• industrial automation
• emerging connected-device markets
• always-on sensing
• display systems
• audio processing
• low power system design

Location

• Austin, TX

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Minimum 10 years of experience

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree in EE or related engineering discipline
• Master’s degree or PhD preferred

Salary/Compensations

• $150,500 - $279,500 USD

Benefits

• Great medical (Choice of PPO or Consumer Driven Health Plan with HSA), dental and vision plans
• Highly competitive salary
• 401k plan with match and Roth plan option
• Equity rewards (RSUs)
• Life/AD&D and disability coverage
• Flexible spending accounts
• Adoption assistance
• Back-Up childcare
• Additional benefit options (Commuter benefits, Legal benefits, Pet insurance)
• Flexible PTO schedule
• 3 paid volunteer days per year
• Charitable contribution match
• Tuition reimbursement
• Monthly wellness offerings

About the Company

• 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.
• Silicon Labs is a global leader in secure, intelligent wireless technology that powers a more connected world.
• Our Hardware Platform team plays a pivotal role in defining the next generation of scalable compute platforms for IoT edge applications.
• We transform business needs and market trends into forward-looking product architectures that drive innovation and enable rapid deployment across a broad range of applications.
• Platform & Product Management is responsible for translating customer and market needs into well-defined product requirements and executable product development programs.
• The team leads product definition through planning by developing market and product requirements, business cases, product architecture inputs, technical requirements, risk assessments, and cross-functional execution plans.
• Working closely with cross-functional teams, Platform and Product Management ensures future products are technically sound, commercially viable, and positioned for successful execution.

Equal Opportunity

• 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.