Staff Platform Systems Engineer - Austin, United States
$150,500 - $279,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 14 August 2026 by the employer.
Silicon Labs is defining scalable compute platforms for IoT edge applications.
About the role
This involves transforming business needs and market trends into forward-looking product architectures.
What you'll do
- Work with segment managers, customers, and product management to understand market trends and product opportunities.
- Translate customer use cases into product, system, and architectural requirements for new product development.
- Conduct technical feasibility studies, identify technical risks, and propose mitigation strategies.
- Lead cross-functional technical investigations and drive decisions.
- Contribute to product requirement documents, architecture proposals, and competitive analyses.
- Present technical recommendations and product direction to leadership and strategic customers.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in EE or a related engineering discipline.
- Minimum 10 years of 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.
- Experience with systems engineering, product definition, or product architecture.
- Ability to analyze complex technical problems involving both hardware and software.
- Experience evaluating architectural trade-offs and translating customer requirements into product requirements.
Nice to have
- Knowledge of core compute architecture (ARM cores, AXI/AHB interconnects).
- Familiarity with PPA (Power, Performance, Area) trade-offs, power and die size estimation.
- Experience applying AI or machine learning within embedded or connected systems.
- Prior experience building products using Silicon Labs devices or similar embedded wireless platforms.
- Experience in gateways, wearables, robotics, industrial automation, or other emerging connected-device markets.
- Familiarity with always-on sensing, display systems, audio processing or low power system design.
Skills: embedded systems, wireless products, systems engineering, product architecture, architectural trade-offs, hardware and software
This role has been open 64 days — slightly above the 57-day median for Hardware Systems Engineering roles.
Hardware Systems Engineering · SOC Architecture
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Open roles in category
104
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Median days open
57 d
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Median salary
$208k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Silicon Labs | All employers we track in this specialty (104 roles · 28 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 104 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 27 | 6114 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 45 d | 57 d (−12 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $208k |
Skills observed across this category: embedded systems, wireless products, systems engineering, product architecture, architectural trade-offs, hardware and software
Who's hiring in this category
- AMD · 28 open roles · median 57 d
- Qualcomm · 22 open roles · median 42 d
- NVIDIA · 16 open roles · median 76 d
- Intel Corporation · 6 open roles · median 44 d
- Mobileye · 4 open roles · median 24 d
- Apple · 3 open roles · median 16 d
How we counted: 104 open Hardware Systems Engineering (SOC Architecture) roles from 28 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 17 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.