Principal System Architect

About Analog Devices

Analog Devices, Inc. (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 .

Principal Systems Architect

Data Center Platforms

The Opportunity

The rapid expansion of AI and cloud computing is transforming the data center.

Analog Devices is searching for a Principal Systems Architect to help define the next generation of embedded software and system architectures for data center infrastructure.

This 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 .

You 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.

We 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 .

You 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.

What You’ll Do

Define System Architecture

- Recognize unseen relationships between industry needs and ADI capabilities to seed innovative solutions.
- Define system architectures spanning platforms, silicon, hardware, embedded compute, software, communications, sensing, control, and security.
- Translate customer and system requirements into clear architectural requirements, partitioning, interfaces, and implementation choices.
- Drive architectural decisions early in product development, when those decisions have the greatest impact on capability, schedule, cost, reuse, and differentiation.
- Establish architectures that can scale across products and product generations without compromising the needs of individual applications.

Turn Architecture into Products

Architecture is valuable only when it produces results.

You will:

- Convert ambiguous customer and system problems into concrete technical architectures.
- Determine where functions should reside within the system, making deliberate tradeoffs among silicon, hardware, firmware, software, communications, and control.
- Identify technical risks and critical dependencies early and use analysis, modeling, experimentation, and prototypes to resolve them.
- Apply sound business judgment to architectural decisions, balancing innovation and differentiation with schedule, cost, risk, and customer value.
- Drive decisions to closure and take ownership for results.
- Provide technical leadership across teams, challenge assumptions constructively, mentor engineers, and build alignment around critical architectural decisions.

What We’re Looking For

Broad Technical Capability

The successful candidate will bring significant engineering depth together with demonstrated capability across multiple technical disciplines .

Relevant experience may include:

- Analog and mixed-signal systems
- Power conversion, power management, and control
- Digital systems and hardware architecture
- Microcontrollers, SoCs, and embedded compute
- Embedded firmware and real-time systems
- Software and system architecture
- Communications protocols and system interfaces
- Sensing, measurement, and telemetry
- Control algorithms and signal processing
- Reliability, diagnostics, and fault management

- Embedded and system security

A successful Systems Architect must be able to move comfortably among disciplines, understand their languages and constraints, recognize where decisions in one domain affect another, and engage specialists deeply enough to reach sound system-level conclusions.

Why This Role Matters

Data-center infrastructure is entering a period of significant architectural change.

As a Principal 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.

If you are passionate about complex systems, willing to venture outside the boundaries of your own expertise, and motivated by turning difficult customer problems into successful solutions, we want to hear from you.

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Job Req Type: Experienced
Required Travel: Yes, 10% of the time
Shift Type: 1st Shift/Days

The expected wage range for a new hire into this position is $180,642 to $261,579.
- Actual wage offered may vary depending on work location , experience, education, training, external market data, internal pay equity, or other bona fide factors.
- This position qualifies for a discretionary performance-based bonus which is based on personal and company factors.
- This position includes medical, vision and dental coverage, 401k, paid vacation, holidays, and sick time , and other benefits.