Principal Software Architect
Analog Devices3 days ago
Responsibilities
- Define embedded software and system architectures spanning devices, platforms, and applications.
- Translate customer and system requirements into hardware/software architectures and engineering requirements.
- Establish interfaces and architectural boundaries across hardware, firmware, algorithms, communications, security, telemetry, configuration, and higher-level software.
- Drive early architectural decisions for capability, schedule, cost, reuse, scalability, and product differentiation.
- Provide technical leadership across teams, mentor engineers, challenge assumptions, and align teams around critical decisions.
- Drive tradeoffs involving performance, reliability, security, memory, compute, interfaces, cost, and development complexity.
- Identify technical risks and dependencies using analysis, modeling, experimentation, and prototypes.
- Own architectural decisions through closure and balance innovation with schedule, risk, cost, and customer value.
Requirements
- Substantial experience in several areas including embedded systems and software architecture, C/C++, real-time and bare-metal systems, microcontrollers, and heterogeneous compute architectures.
- Experience with hardware/software co-design, device drivers, hardware abstraction, communications protocols, and system interfaces.
- Experience with distributed embedded systems, configuration, telemetry, diagnostics, fault management, embedded security, software platforms, and APIs.
- Experience with system integration, validation, and debugging.
- Deep software expertise combined with broad understanding of hardware and system architecture.
- Technical leadership, cross-disciplinary collaboration, mentoring, and sound architectural tradeoff judgment.
- Willingness to travel approximately 10% of the time.
Benefits
- Full-time experienced position on the 1st Shift/Days schedule.
- Required travel is 10% of the time.
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.