Senior/Staff Software Architect (AIoT SoC Platform)

Realtek Singapore Private Limited; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Realtek Singapore Private Limited is seeking an experienced Senior Embedded Software Architect to define software architecture for AIoT SoC platforms, including RTOS-based systems and bare-metal environments.

You will collaborate with hardware teams, drive requirements, perform feasibility studies, and mentor multiple software teams while delivering on time across global projects.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of embedded software development in real-time environments (bare-metal/RTOS).
• Strong proficiency in C/C++ and low-level embedded development.
• Experience with ARM Cortex-M, Cortex-A and/or RISC-V architectures.
• Proven ability to define software architecture and system-level designs for embedded products.

Responsibilities

• Define software architecture, subsystem decomposition, and functional allocation for AIoT SoC platforms.
• Develop and maintain SRS, architecture documents, interface specifications, and requirements traceability.
• Translate evolving requirements into actionable software requirements for hardware and software teams.
• Perform feasibility studies, prototyping, and technology evaluations to validate decisions and mitigate risks.
• Collaborate with field, product marketing, and validation teams to align architecture with customer use cases.
• Lead architectural reviews and provide technical leadership through implementation, integration, verification, and validation.
• Review designs, test plans, source code, and verification results for architectural conformance.
• Partner with hardware architects to optimize hardware/software partitioning and trade-offs.
• Define and enforce software architecture standards, methodologies, and coding guidelines.
• Lead performance, memory, boot-time, and power optimization initiatives.
• Support system-level debugging and root-cause analysis of software-hardware interactions.
• Collaborate across global teams to achieve project milestones and mentorship across teams.
• Mentor engineers and provide leadership across multiple software development teams.

Skills

C/C++

Embedded systems

RTOS

Software architecture

Requirements engineering

Debugging

Memory management

Communication

Leadership

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Electrical/Computer Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

FPGA emulation platforms

Debuggers/ IDEs

Silicon bring-up

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Define software architecture, subsystem decomposition, and functional allocation for AIoT SoC platforms.

• Develop and maintain Software Requirements Specifications (SRS), software architecture documents, interface specifications, and requirements traceability.

• Analyse evolving requirements from hardware architects, product marketing, software teams, and customer use cases, and translate them into actionable software requirements

• Perform architectural feasibility studies, software prototyping, and technology evaluations to validate design decisions and mitigate technical risks.

• Collaborate closely with field teams, product marketing, and system validation teams to understand customer use cases and ensure architectural alignment.

• Drive architectural reviews and provide technical leadership throughout software implementation, integration, verification, and validation phases.

• Review software designs, test plans, source code, and verification results to ensure compliance with architectural requirements.

• Partner with hardware architects to determine optimal hardware/software partitioning and recommend trade-offs between software and hardware implementations.

• Define and enforce software architecture standards, development methodologies, coding guidelines, and best practices.

• Lead performance, memory utilization, boot-time, and power optimization initiatives.

• Support system-level debugging, root-cause analysis, and resolution of complex software and hardware interaction issues.

• Collaborate effectively across global and cross-functional teams to achieve project objectives and product milestones.

• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across multiple software development teams.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

• 10+ years of experience developing embedded software for real-time environments, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems.

• Strong proficiency in C/C++ and low-level embedded software development. Experience with assembly language programming is a plus.

• Experience developing software on ARM Cortex-M, Cortex-A, and/or RISC-V architectures.

• Proven experience defining software architecture, requirements specifications, and system-level designs for embedded products.

• Strong understanding of RTOS concepts, including scheduling, synchronization, interrupt handling, inter-task communication, and resource management.

• Experience writing software requirements and architecture specifications with consideration for customer use cases, derived requirements, verification, and testability.

• Experience with FPGA-based emulation platforms, silicon bring-up, and full-system reference designs.

• Strong understanding of memory architectures and Memory protection and isolation mechanisms

• Familiarity with embedded development tools, debuggers, compilers, and IDEs.

• Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to independently manage priorities, drive technical initiatives, and deliver results with minimal supervision.

• Proven ability to thrive in a small, agile engineering team, taking initiative, prioritizing tasks and handle evolving technical challenges, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability from design through validation and delivery.