Senior Principal Software Architect, Embedded Software
Analog Devices21 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Gather requirements from customers and internal stakeholders for datacenter power-management systems.
- Define robust, scalable, extensible software architectures and long-term technical direction.
- Architect high-performance, real-time embedded software while balancing engineering trade-offs and practical constraints.
- Select platforms, frameworks, and tools appropriate to system requirements.
- Perform trade-off analyses involving scalability, delivery speed, cost, architecture, and performance.
- Produce software architecture documentation, including block diagrams, data-flow diagrams, and logic diagrams.
- Communicate architecture rationale to engineering teams, customers, and other stakeholders.
- Drive continuous improvement through modern development methods, tools, and AI adoption.
- Mentor engineers across junior, senior, and staff levels.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 15+ years of full-lifecycle software development experience from requirements 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
- Located in Cork, Ireland, within Analog Devices' Software and Digital Platforms Group.
- Requires travel approximately 10% of the time.
- First-shift daytime schedule.
- Export licensing review may be required for applicants who need access to technical data.
About Analog Devices
Analog Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADI) is a global semiconductor leader that bridges the physical and digital worlds to enable breakthroughs at the Intelligent Edge. ADI combines analog, digital, AI, and software technologies into solutions that help drive advancements in automation and robotics, mobility, energy and data centers, and healthcare, combat climate change, and reliably connect humans and the world. With revenue of more than $11 billion in FY25, ADI ensures today's innovators stay Ahead of What's Possible. Learn more at www.analog.com and on LinkedIn and X (formerly Twitter).