Staff Platform Engineer

About the role

Silicon Labs, a leader in low-power wireless connectivity, is hiring a Staff Platform Engineer in its Budapest office. The role turns application needs and technology trends into requirements for future hardware and software platforms, investigating customer needs, standards and competitors and evaluating new architectures through hands-on feasibility studies. It works closely with vendors, customers, product teams and internal engineering groups.

Key responsibilities

• Research emerging applications, technologies, standards and market trends relevant to future IoT products.
• Perform end-application and competitive-product analysis.
• Lead feasibility studies and architectural trade-off analyses for new system concepts and optimizations.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, systems and customer-facing teams to validate requirements and architectural decisions.
• Identify product capabilities and differentiators needed to win in the market.
• Influence technical and product-roadmap decisions by communicating recommendations, trade-offs, risks and investment needs to engineering and senior leadership.
• Mentor less-experienced engineers and give technical guidance across projects.

Required profile

• BSc or MSc in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.
• 8+ years of industry experience.
• Experience in embedded coding, IoT application development and Proof of Concepts.

Required skills

• Basic understanding of hardware IP architecture, development and verification.
• Strong understanding of embedded microcontroller architectures and features.
• Good understanding of embedded application design: requirement analysis, HW design, firmware and application development, bench evaluation and debugging.
• Experience with one or more RTOS; FreeRTOS and Zephyr preferred.
• Preferred: compute simulators such as Fixed Virtual Platform, ML model deployment on HW accelerators, DSP algorithm profiling, IoT systems, virtualization and containerization, TensorFlow, PyTorch and Jax, audio and vision systems at the edge, and lab equipment such as oscilloscopes and spectrum analyzers.

What we offer

• Office in Budapest's Graphisoft Park, with an annual travel card or parking in the office garage.
• Cafeteria system, employment stock purchase plan and private health care access.
• Life and accident insurance, contribution to a voluntary private pension fund and AYCM card option.
• Paid days for philanthropy.
• Base pay range of HUF 14,089,250 - 26,165,750, plus possible annual cash bonus, equity package and benefits.