Senior Principal Software Architect, Embedded Software
Analog Devices1 month ago
Limerick, Ireland +2 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Gather requirements from customers and internal stakeholders for complex datacenter power-management systems.
- Define robust, scalable, extensible, and durable software architectures and product definitions.
- Select platforms, frameworks, and tools that fit system requirements.
- Architect high-performance real-time embedded software while balancing engineering trade-offs and practical constraints.
- Perform trade-off analyses involving scalability, delivery speed, cost, and architectural approaches.
- Create software architecture documentation, including block diagrams, data-flow diagrams, and logic diagrams.
- Communicate architecture rationale to engineering teams, customers, and stakeholders.
- Drive software development process improvements through modern methods, tools, and AI.
- Mentor team members from junior through senior and staff levels.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 20+ years of full-lifecycle software development experience, from requirements gathering through product release.
- 10+ years of experience architecting and designing complex embedded software systems.
- Ability to read and understand hardware schematics.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Experience developing software in a multi-developer Agile team using Git branching and merging.
- Experience designing software signal-processing chains and understanding processing-performance and latency trade-offs.
- Familiarity with electrical power-control systems is desirable.
- Familiarity with embedded RTOS such as Zephyr is desirable.
- Experience with embedded security, including data protection, secure boot, and secure communications, is desirable.
- Familiarity with machine learning concepts and model development is desirable.
Benefits
- Cork, Ireland work location.
- Required travel is 10% of the time.
- Regular first-shift daytime schedule.
- Export licensing review may be required for applicants who are not US citizens, US permanent residents, or protected individuals when the role involves technical data.
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.