Senior Principal Embedded Systems Architect HW/SW Co-Design

1440 Canada; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Analog Devices, Inc. in Canada is seeking a Senior Principal Embedded System Architect to lead HW/SW co-design and shape system architecture for SoCs and IPs.

The role focuses on enabling software-friendly design decisions early in the design cycle and working with a hardware specialist from day one. The candidate will drive pre-silicon exploration using SystemC, validate design choices with data-driven analysis, and craft bootloaders, drivers, and kernel components for robust software

Qualifications

• BS/MS in EE, CE, or CS with 20+ years of system software architecture or firmware development experience.
• Deep knowledge of memory hierarchies, AMBA bus protocols (AXI/AHB/APB), DMA, and RISC-V/ARM architectures.
• Hands-on experience with SystemC (TLM 2.0) for early architecture exploration.
• Expert in C/C++ writing embedded software, bootloaders, and drivers within RTOS (Zephyr) and Embedded Linux environments.
• Experienced in silicon bring-up and JTAG debugging, with the ability to read RTL (Verilog/SystemVerilog).
• Exceptional skills in presenting complex architectural tradeoffs to hardware engineers, executives, and customer teams.

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.

Skills

Embedded software

C/C++

JTAG debugging

SystemC

RTL reading

Memory hierarchies

ARM/RISC-V

DevOps tools (CI/CD, Docker)

Digital/Analog HW/SW co-design

Pre-silicon exploration

Education

BS/MS in EE, CE, or CS

Tools

SystemC (TLM 2.0)

Verilog/SystemVerilog

Palladium/FPGA prototyping

Job description

Analog Devices, Inc. in Canada is seeking a Senior Principal Embedded System Architect to lead HW/SW co-design and shape system architecture for SoCs and IPs.

The role focuses on enabling software-friendly design decisions early in the design cycle and working with a hardware specialist from day one. The candidate will drive pre-silicon exploration using SystemC, validate design choices with data-driven analysis, and craft bootloaders, drivers, and kernel components for robust software