Senior Hardware Platform Expert (w/m/d)– Embedded Electronics

Siemens; Erlangen; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Attractive remuneration package

Discounted transport ticket

Corporate benefits

Flexible training opportunities

Sabbatical opportunity

Location-dependent childcare

Job summary

Siemens is seeking an experienced Senior HW Platform Expert to drive embedded electronics across our industrial automation portfolio. You will lead at the interface of hardware development, supplier management, procurement, and strategy to create scalable, reusable platform assets for product teams worldwide.

You will shape hardware platforms, drive technology roadmaps, and contribute to global material and component strategies, enabling accelerated innovation and standardized building blocks

Qualifications

• Master's or Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Embedded Systems / Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in hardware development for industrial or automotive systems.
• Proven experience in architecture development and hardware platform creation.
• Strong understanding of component lifecycle management and semiconductor technologies.
• Experience working with global development organizations and external suppliers.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions beyond project boundaries.
• Strong competence in Embedded hardware platforms, FPGA and programmable logic devices, EMC and signal integrity, Product lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and evaluate emerging technologies, semiconductor trends, embedded computing platforms and electronic components.
• Assess technical maturity, lifecycle risks, availability, cost competitiveness, reliability, and sustainability of new technologies.
• Derive technology roadmaps and recommendations for future product platforms and align them with the needs of the HW product development.
• Identify common hardware requirements across product lines.
• Transform proven concepts into scalable reference designs and platform assets for worldwide reuse.
• Establish best practices for hardware reuse, modularization, and platform-based development.
• Act as a trusted technical advisor to global hardware development teams.
• Support projects in selecting and integrating approved building blocks.
• Provide guidance on component selection, architecture decisions, risk assessments, and technology adoption.
• Represent R&D in global Material Strategy Teams.
• Contribute to company-wide component and semiconductor strategies.
• Define preferred technology directions and approved platform components.

Skills

Hardware architecture

Platform development

Embedded hardware

FPGA

Signal integrity

EMC

Lifecycle management

Supplier management

Stakeholder management

Global collaboration

Education

Master's or Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering / Electronics Engineering / Embedded Systems or Computer Engineering

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Senior HW Platform Expert to drive the future of embedded electronics across our industrial automation product portfolio.

In this role, you will act as a technical leader at the interface of hardware development, supplier management, procurement, manufacturing, and technology strategy. You will identify emerging technologies, transform them into reusable hardware platform building blocks, and enable product teams worldwide to accelerate innovation through standardized and scalable solutions.

You will play a key role in shaping hardware platforms, driving technology roadmaps, and contributing to company-wide material and component strategies.

What We Offer You

• An attractive remuneration package
• A discounted public transport ticket so you're always mobile
• Discounts on many products and services provided by the Siemens Corporate Benefits
• Flexible training opportunities for both your professional and personal development that you can tailor to your interests
• The opportunity to take a sabbatical
• Location-dependent childcare to help balance family and work

Since each of over 300,000 team members feels that other benefits are particularly important, and we cannot list our entire benefit portfolio here, you can find more information here.

The individual benefits are subject to regulatory, contractual, or corporate conditions.

You’ll make an impact by

Technology Scouting & Future Platform Management

• Monitor and evaluate emerging technologies, semiconductor trends, embedded computing platforms and electronic components.
• Assess technical maturity, lifecycle risks, availability, cost competitiveness, reliability, and sustainability of new technologies.
• Derive technology roadmaps and recommendations for future product platforms and align them with the needs of the HW product development.

Hardware Platform & Building Block Development

• Identify common hardware requirements across product lines.
• Transform proven concepts into scalable reference designs and platform assets for worldwide reuse
• Establish best practices for hardware reuse, modularization, and platform-based development.

Engineering Support & Technical Consulting

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to global hardware development teams.
• Support projects in selecting and integrating approved building blocks.
• Provide guidance on component selection, architecture decisions, risk assessments, and technology adoption.

Material Strategy & Supplier Collaboration

• Represent R&D in global Material Strategy Teams
• Contribute to company-wide component and semiconductor strategies.
• Define preferred technology directions and approved platform components.

You excel in

• Education
  • Master's or Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Embedded Systems / Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience & Skills
  • Minimum 8 years of experience in hardware development for industrial or automotive systems.
  • Proven experience in architecture development and hardware platform creation.
  • Strong understanding of component lifecycle management and semiconductor technologies.
  • Experience working with global development organizations and external suppliers.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence technical decisions beyond project boundaries.
  • Strong competence in Embedded hardware platforms, FPGA and programmable logic devices, EMC and signal integrity, Product lifecycle management
• Ways of working
  • Strategic technology mindset and strong analytical and systems-thinking capabilities
  • Strong analytical and systems-thinking capabilities
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Passion for innovation and platform engineering
  • Strong networking and collaboration skills
  • Self-driven and entrepreneurial working style
• Languages
  • Excellent German and English knowledge

You are much more than your qualifications, and we believe in the potential of every single candidate. We look forward to getting to know you!

At Siemens, we believe that feeling valued and included is the foundation for doing great work. That’s why we aim to create an inclusive workplace where everyone feels a sense of belonging, and where individual perspectives and experiences are celebrated. Our commitment to fairness and respect extends to every applicant.

As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and particularly encourage applications from persons with disabilities. In the case of equal qualifications, severely disabled applicants and applicants with equivalent status will be given preference.

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