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(NASDAQ: ADI) is a global semiconductor leader that bridges the physical and digital worlds to enable breakthroughs at the Intelligent Edge. ADI combines analog, digital, AI, and software technologies into solutions that combat climate change, reliably connect humans and the world, and help drive advancements in automation and robotics, mobility, healthcare, energy and data centers. With revenue of more than $11 billion in FY25, ADI ensures today's innovators stay Ahead of What's Possible. Learn more at www.analog.com and on LinkedIn and X.\nPrincipal Software Systems Architect\nData Center Platforms\nThe Opportunity\nThe rapid expansion of AI and cloud computing is transforming the data center.\nAnalog Devices is searching for a Principal Software Systems Architect to help define the next generation of embedded software and system architectures for data center infrastructure.\nThis is not simply a software implementation role. It is an opportunity to work at the intersection of silicon, embedded computing, software, power, sensing, communications, security, and large-scale infrastructure.\nYou will partner with analog, digital, firmware, software, systems, applications, and product teams to turn complex customer problems into scalable product architectures. You will influence products from their earliest architectural decisions through implementation and deployment.\nWe are looking for an engineer who is curious by nature, passionate about engineering across disciplines, and energized by problems that don't fit neatly within one technical domain.\nYou should expect to be challenged. You should expect to challenge others. And you should have the technical credibility and leadership skills to inspire teams to accomplish things that initially appear difficult.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDefine System and Software Architecture\nDefine embedded software and system architectures spanning devices, platforms, and applications.\nTranslate customer and system requirements into clear hardware/software architectures and engineering requirements.\nEstablish clear architectural boundaries and interfaces among hardware, firmware, algorithms, communications, security, telemetry, configuration, and higher-level software.\nDrive architectural decisions early in product development, when those decisions have the greatest impact on capability, schedule, cost, reuse, and differentiation.\nDesign for portability and scalability so that software and architectural investments can extend across products and product generations.\nTurn Architecture into Products\nArchitecture is valuable only when it produces results.\nYou will:\nProvide technical leadership across teams, challenge assumptions constructively, mentor engineers, and build alignment around critical architectural decisions.\nConvert ambiguous customer and system problems into concrete technical architectures.\nDrive tradeoffs involving performance, reliability, security, memory, compute, interfaces, cost, and development complexity.\nEstablish interfaces and architectural contracts that enable multiple engineering teams to execute in parallel.\nIdentify technical risks and critical dependencies early and use analysis, modeling, experimentation, and prototypes to resolve them.\nDrive decisions to closure and take ownership for results.\nApply sound business judgment to architectural decisions, balancing innovation and differentiation with schedule, cost, risk, and customer value.\nWhat We’re Looking For\nTechnical Depth\nThe successful candidate will bring substantial experience in several of the following:\nEmbedded systems and software architecture\nC/C++ and low-level embedded software\nReal-time and bare-metal systems\nMicrocontrollers and heterogeneous compute architectures\nHardware/software co-design\nDevice drivers and hardware abstraction\nCommunications protocols and system interfaces\nDistributed embedded systems\nConfiguration, telemetry, diagnostics, and fault management\nEmbedded security\nSoftware platforms and APIs\nSystem integration, validation, and debug\nA successful Software Systems Architect must combine deep software expertise with a broad understanding of the underlying hardware and system architecture to recognize cross-domain dependencies and make sound architectural tradeoffs.\nWhy This Role Matters\nData-center infrastructure is entering a period of significant architectural change.\nAs a Principal Software Systems Architect, you will work where multiple technologies converge, help make architectural decisions that shape future products, and work alongside engineers across disciplines to turn those decisions into real systems.\nIf you are passionate about understanding how complex systems work, willing to venture outside the boundaries of your own expertise, and motivated by turning difficult customer problems into successful products, we want to hear from you.\nFor positions requiring access to technical data, Analog Devices, Inc. may have to obtain export licensing approval from the U.S. Department of Commerce - Bureau of Industry and Security and/or the U.S. Department of State - Directorate of Defense Trade Controls. 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