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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. It’s 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 robust software voice is present during the critical design and architecure phases.

You’ll ensure we are making the right architectural decisions and tradeoffs early in the SoC and IP design cycle well before silicon exists. 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.

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.

Build

SystemC-based virtual platforms and develop proof-of-concept code to profile, model, and validate design choices before RTL is written. Translate complex use cases into requirements, assessing data paths and co-defining hardware accelerators to optimize software execution. 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.

Experience: BS/MS in EE, CE, or CS with 20+ years of system software architecture or firmware development experience. 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.

Software Mastery:



Expert in C/C++ writing embedded software, bootloaders, and drivers within RTOS (Zephyr) and Embedded Linux environments.

Communication: Exceptional skills in presenting complex architectural tradeoffs to hardware engineers, executives, and customer teams.

Experience defining debug/trace infrastructure (CoreSight, JTAG) and performance modeling. Familiarity with modern DevOps for virtual platforms (CI/CD, Docker) and network protocols. For positions requiring access to technical data, Analog Devices, Inc. may have to obtain export licensing approval from the U.Department of Commerce - Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the U.Department of State - Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.

As such, applicants for this position – except US Citizens, US Permanent Residents, and protected individuals as defined by 8 U.We foster a culture where everyone has an opportunity to succeed regardless of their race, color, religion, age, ancestry, national origin, social or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, union membership, and political affiliation, or any other legally protected group. Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA): Analog Devices Canada Ltd. has a process in place and provides accommodations for employees with disabilities.

Required Travel: Yes, 10% of the time. #

📌 Senior Principal Embedded Software Architect (Vancouver)
🏢 1440 Canada
📍 Vancouver