Senior Principal Embedded Software Architect
Analog Devices2 days ago
Vancouver, Canada or Valencia, SpainStaff+
Responsibilities
- Direct, mentor, and manage the HW/SW co-design architecture team and drive team performance.
- Serve as the technical and operational liaison to the Senior Director of HW/SW Co-Design, translating strategy into architectural roadmaps, milestones, and progress reviews.
- Coordinate with digital design, analog, software, validation, and product management engineering leads to resolve trade-offs and execution bottlenecks.
- Lead SoC co-architecture and HW/SW tradeoff analysis with digital and analog teams.
- Translate customer use cases into quantitative system requirements and co-define hardware accelerators and data paths.
- Define and contribute to core firmware architecture for bootloaders, initialization sequences, microcode, and kernel drivers.
- Champion hardware debuggability and observability using CoreSight, JTAG, and trace from silicon bring-up through field deployment.
- Represent customer software teams and ensure platform APIs and programming models are intuitive and efficient.
Requirements
- BS or MS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science.
- 15+ years of system software architecture, firmware development, and HW/SW co-design experience.
- 3+ years of direct engineering management or formal team leadership experience.
- Expert proficiency in C/C++ for low-level embedded software, bootloaders, and device drivers in RTOS and Embedded Linux environments.
- Knowledge of memory hierarchies, AMBA AXI/AHB/APB bus interconnect protocols, DMA engines, and RISC-V and ARM architecture fundamentals.
- Hands-on post-silicon bring-up and JTAG debugging experience, including reading and evaluating RTL in Verilog/SystemVerilog.
- Preferred qualifications include semiconductor or IP architecture leadership, SystemC/TLM 2.0, Renode or Virtualizer, Palladium or Zebu, FPGA prototyping, Docker-based pre-silicon workflows, mixed-signal architectures, signal processing accelerators, dynamic power management, DVFS, debug and trace infrastructure, logic analyzers, performance modeling, TrustZone, secure boot, and cryptography accelerators.
Benefits
- Required travel is 10% of the time.
- Applicants requiring access to technical data may undergo export licensing review; U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent residents, and protected individuals are excepted from that review.
About Analog Devices
Analog Devices, Inc. designs and sells analog, mixed-signal, RF, power, sensor, and digital signal processing ICs to OEMs across industrial, automotive, communications, consumer, and healthcare markets. Founded in 1965 and headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts, the NASDAQ-listed company earns revenue from catalog and application-specific semiconductors and supporting software used in applications from factory automation and vehicles to data centers and medical devices.