Principal SoC Platform Architect for AI‑Driven DevTools

Cirrus; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Cirrus Logic in Austin seeks a Principal SoC Development Platform Engineer to architect AI‑native software development environments for advanced semiconductor platforms. You will bridge SoC architecture, compiler technologies, embedded software, AI‑driven tools, and secure cloud infrastructure to create integrated, scalable developer platforms.

A successful candidate will be a hands‑on architect with deep expertise in compilers and SoC software development, leading a small, autonomous team to

Qualifications

• Education and Experience: Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent technical expertise, with 10+ years of relevant experience in compiler development, embedded systems, heterogeneous computing, or developer platforms.
• Compiler and Hardware Architecture: Deep knowledge of compiler design, code generation, optimization, runtime systems, and processor microarchitecture, with hands-on experience in LLVM, MLIR, GCC, or comparable compiler infrastructure.
• Embedded and Heterogeneous Computing: Strong experience with ARM embedded development and exposure to DSP programming, ML inference deployment, accelerator mapping, and FPGA development flows.
• Secure Cloud Development: Experience architecting cloud-native developer platforms, multi-tenant infrastructure, secure build environments, CI/CD pipelines, and software supply-chain security.
• Software Security and Lifecycle: Understanding of secure software development practices, workload isolation, cryptographic signing, software provenance, trusted execution, secure deployment, and protection of third‑party IP.
• AI and Automation: Demonstrated experience applying LLMs, AI agents, and automated engineering workflows to software development, compilation, testing, or complex toolchain orchestration.
• Software Engineering: Strong proficiency in C/C++, Python, APIs, SDKs, build systems, and distributed development infrastructure.
• Systems Leadership: Proven ability to architect and deliver complex, cross‑disciplinary systems, operate independently, and influence decisions spanning silicon, software, security, and customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Architect a unified compilation and deployment framework spanning embedded firmware, DSP algorithms, ML models, and FPGA RTL configurations.
• Develop and integrate compiler frontends, intermediate representations, optimization passes, backends, and runtime frameworks targeting heterogeneous compute resources.
• Collaborate with silicon architects to optimize instruction sets, custom operators, accelerator interfaces, memory architecture, workload partitioning, and system‑level power, performance, and area (PPA).
• Establish common abstractions for execution, interoperability, and data movement across CPUs, DSP engines, ML accelerators, and configurable logic.
• Build a headless, AI‑agent‑driven development platform that transforms natural‑language application intent into compiled, validated, and deployable hardware/software pipelines.
• Leverage LLMs and agentic workflows to automate code generation, workload partitioning, compiler optimization, build orchestration, simulation, testing, and debugging.
• Integrate heterogeneous programming environments into a unified toolchain, from application and model development through executable binaries and programmable‑logic configurations.
• Establish reproducible, deterministic build and validation processes while using AI to accelerate development and optimization.
• Integrate compilation, simulation, debugging, profiling, and validation into a unified, AI‑orchestrated development workflow that accelerates development from concept to deployable artifacts.

Skills

Compiler development

C/C++

Python

ARM embedded

AI/LLM workflows

Security in software

CI/CD pipelines

Distributed infra

Leadership

Education

Master's or PhD in CS/EE/CE

Tools

LLVM

MLIR

GCC

TVM

IREE

ONNX

TensorFlow Lite

FPGA tooling

Job description

Cirrus Logic in Austin seeks a Principal SoC Development Platform Engineer to architect AI‑native software development environments for advanced semiconductor platforms. You will bridge SoC architecture, compiler technologies, embedded software, AI‑driven tools, and secure cloud infrastructure to create integrated, scalable developer platforms.

A successful candidate will be a hands‑on architect with deep expertise in compilers and SoC software development, leading a small, autonomous team to