Staff Platform Engineer

What you’ll be doing

• Research emerging applications, technologies, standards, and market trends relevant to future IoT products.

• Perform end-application and competitive-product analysis.

• Lead hands-on feasibility studies and architectural tradeoff analyses for new system concepts, technologies, and optimizations.

• Collaborate with hardware, software, systems, and customer-facing teams to validate requirements and architectural decisions.

• Identify product capabilities and differentiator needed to address target applications and win in the market.

• Influence technical and product-roadmap decisions by clearly communicating recommendations, tradeoffs, risks, and investment needs to engineering and senior leadership.

• Provide mentorship to less-experienced engineers and technical guidance across projects.

Minimum Qualifications

• BSc or MSc in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent with 8+ years of industry experience

• Basic understanding of hardware IP architecture, development and verification

• A strong understanding of embedded microcontroller architectures and features

• A good understanding of embedded application design: requirement analysis, HW design, firmware and application development, bench evaluation, and debugging

• Experience in embedded coding, IoT application development and Proof of Concepts

• Experience with one or more RTOS – Free RTOS, Zephyr preferred

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with compute simulators such as Fixed Virtual Platform and deploying ML models on HW accelerators

• Experience developing and profiling machine learning kernels or other DSP algorithms

• Experience with IoT systems

• Experience with virtualization and containerization

• Experience developing and profiling machine learning models in frameworks such as Tensorflow, Pytorch, and Jax

• Experience working on audio and vision systems at the edge/embedded

• Experience using lab equipment: oscilloscopes, multimeters, spectrum analyzers, signal generators, etc.

Budapest Perks & Benefits

You would be working from our office in Budapest, in Graphisoft Park, next to the riverbank of the Danube.

We also offer:

• Annual Budapest travel card or parking in the office garage
• Great cafeteria system
• Opportunity to join Employment Stock Purchase Plan
• Private health care access
• Life and accident insurance for every employee
• Contribution to a voluntary private pension fund
• AYCM card option
• Paid days for philanthropy

The annualized base pay range for this role is expected to be between Ft14,089,250 - Ft26,165,750. Actual base pay could vary based on factors including but not limited to experience, geographic location where work will be performed and applicant’s skill set. The base pay is just one component of the total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include an annual cash bonus, equity package and a comprehensive benefits package.

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.