Senior Principal Embedded Software Architect

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Senior Principal Embedded System Architect (HW/SW Co-Design)

About the Role

The Software and Digital Platform Group is looking for a Senior Principal Embedded System Architect to serve as a premier technical lead within our HW/SW Co-Design and System Architecture team with a bias towards the software side of system architecture This is not a role about drawing abstract boxes on slides. Its about enabling effective downstream chip development through earlier virtual-platforms data-backed architectural exploration and hands-on data flow analysis at the system level. Your primary responsibility is ensuring a strong software voice is present during the critical design and architecure phases. Youll ensure we are making the right architectural decisions and tradeoffs early in the SoC and IP design cycle well before silicon exists.

You will work hand-in-hand with a hardware architect counterpart from day one. You will ultimately be a proxy for customers and downstream software teams during architecture definition ensuring that every major design decision -- from IP block selection to data flow topology -- accounts for the software developer experience real-world performance field debuggability and customer usability. We believe that excessive software complexity to compensate for hardware design decisions is a design failure. This role exists to prevent exactly that.

Responsibilities

• HW/SW Co-Design & Tradeoff Analysis: Lead SoC co-architecture alongside digital/analog teams to balance hardware complexity software efficiency and customer usability at product definition.
• Pre-Silicon Architecture Exploration: Build SystemC-based virtual platforms and develop proof-of-concept code to profile model and validate design choices before RTL is written.
• System & IP Evaluation: Translate complex use cases into requirements assessing data paths and co-defining hardware accelerators to optimize software execution.
• Core Firmware Strategy: Define and develop core architecture for bootloaders initialization sequences microcode and kernel drivers.
• Debug & Usability Advocacy: Champion best-in-class hardware debuggability/observability from early silicon bring-up through field deployment.
• Customer & Team Leadership: Act as the premier technical proxy for customer software teams while providing high-level mentorship across the hardware/software boundary.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience: BS/MS in EE CE or CS with 20 years of system software architecture or firmware development experience.
• Boundary Expertise: Proven track record of operating at the highest technical levels to influence hardware design early in the silicon lifecycle.
• Computer Architecture: Deep knowledge of memory hierarchies AMBA bus protocols (AXI/AHB/APB) DMA and RISC-V/ARM architectures.
• Pre-Silicon Tools: Hands-on experience with SystemC (TLM 2.0) for early architecture exploration.
• Software Mastery: Expert in C/C writing embedded software bootloaders and drivers within RTOS (Zephyr) and Embedded Linux environments.
• Bring-up & Debug: Experienced in silicon bring-up and JTAG debugging with the ability to read RTL (Verilog/SystemVerilog) to evaluate hardware intent.
• Communication: Exceptional skills in presenting complex architectural tradeoffs to hardware engineers executives and customer teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with hardware emulation (e.g. Palladium) FPGA prototyping and pre-silicon workflows.
• Experience defining debug/trace infrastructure (CoreSight JTAG) and performance modeling.
• Knowledge of signal processing mixed-signal architectures power management and DVFS.
• Ability to review board schematics and use standard lab equipment (oscilloscopes logic analyzers).
• Familiarity with modern DevOps for virtual platforms (CI/CD Docker) and network protocols.

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Job Req Type: Experienced

Required Travel: Yes 10% of the time

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Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1