Sr. Principal SOC Architect

What You'll Do

• Own end‑to‑end SoC architecture for hearables/wearables: sensor/analog front‑end → mixed‑signal → digital/compute → memory → power delivery → clocks → interfaces → security.
• Translate product requirements (battery life, latency, SNR, ANC quality, thermal limits, size, cost) into SoC architecture, budgets, and roadmaps.
• Write clear specs, conduct design reviews, and make data‑driven tradeoffs balancing PPA, schedule, and risk.
• Define partitioning across die/tiles/3D IC/SiP/PoP with clear rationale for power, cost, yield, and schedule.
• Select process nodes and options based on cost, leakage, variability, and long‑term supply.
• Provide architectural leadership across analog, digital, RF, firmware, acoustics, product, test, and operations.
• Set performance targets: SNR/THD+N, noise floor, linearity, dynamic range, CMRR/PSRR, jitter; validate via modeling and lab correlation plans.
• Co‑optimize packaging, grounding, and isolation to minimize crosstalk, substrate noise, and coupled digital switching noise.
• Architect compute for audio/voice/ML workloads: selection/partitioning of DSP/CPU/NN accelerators; fixed‑ vs floating‑point tradeoffs; memory hierarchy and scratchpad sizes.
• Define low‑latency pipelines for ANC/beamforming/keyword spotting/echo cancellation with tight end‑to‑end latency and deterministic QoS.
• Own security baseline (TRNG/PUF, secure boot, key storage, crypto accelerators) and always‑on domain for wake words/sensor fusion.
• Mentor senior engineers; elevate design quality, docs, and reusable IP strategy.
• For 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.
• As such, applicants for this position – except US Citizens, US Permanent Residents, and protected individuals as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3) – may have to go through an export licensing review process.
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• Job Req Type: Experienced Required Travel: Yes, 10% of the time Shift Type: 1st Shift/Days