Staff Platform Systems Engineer

Job Title

Staff Platform Systems Engineer

Role Summary

The Staff Platform Systems Engineer defines system- and platform-level requirements for next-generation embedded wireless products. This role analyzes customer use cases and technical trade-offs, performs feasibility studies, and translates ambiguous market needs into actionable product definitions.

Works on the Hardware Platform team and partners with Product Management, R&D, customers, and field teams to ensure product architectures are technically sound and commercially viable.

Experience Level

Senior — minimum 10 years of experience in embedded systems, wireless products, systems engineering, or technical product definition.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include technical leadership during product planning and cross-functional execution.

• Gather and synthesize market trends, customer requirements, and field feedback.
• Translate customer use cases into product, system, and architectural requirements.
• Drive technical feasibility studies and identify technical risks, assumptions, and mitigations.
• Lead cross-functional technical investigations and present findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Build alignment across engineering, product, and business teams to drive decisions.
• Contribute to product requirement documents, architecture proposals, and competitive analyses.
• Collaborate with R&D to ensure proposed solutions are feasible and scalable.
• Present technical recommendations to internal leadership and strategic customers.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills, experience, and behaviors followed by optional strengths that will be considered a plus.

• Minimum 10 years' experience in embedded systems, wireless products, systems engineering, or technical product definition.
• Strong embedded software development or embedded systems design background.
• Experience with wireless embedded systems and wireless communication protocols.
• Proven ability to analyze complex technical problems involving both hardware and software.
• Experience evaluating architectural trade-offs and translating customer requirements into product requirements.
• Proven ability to independently drive technical investigations.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills to influence cross-functional stakeholders and work directly with customers.

Nice-to-have:

• Knowledge of core compute architecture (ARM cores, AXI/AHB interconnects).
• Familiarity with PPA (Power, Performance, Area) trade-offs and power/die-size estimation.
• Experience applying AI/ML within embedded or connected systems.
• Prior experience building products using Silicon Labs or similar embedded wireless platforms.
• Experience in gateways, wearables, robotics, industrial automation, always-on sensing, display systems, audio processing, or low-power system design.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related engineering discipline required. Master's degree or PhD preferred.

About the Company

Company: Silicon Labs

Headquarters: Austin, Texas, USA

Silicon Labs is a leading innovator in low-power wireless connectivity, creating embedded technology that connects devices to improve lives. With a focus on advanced edge connectivity applications, the company provides device makers with cutting-edge solutions and support. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Silicon Labs operates in over 16 countries, serving markets such as smart home, industrial IoT, and smart cities.