Principal Systems Architect

• Lead architectural development across complex products and IP, maintaining alignment between customer requirements, product strategy and engineering delivery
• Define system architectures, including hardware/software partitioning, interfaces and implementation approaches
• Lead architectural and algorithm trade-offs across performance, throughput, latency, resource usage and power
• Provide technical direction on requirements, system decomposition, architectural modelling, performance analysis and verification strategy
• Guide implementation decisions across software, FPGA and ASIC platforms
• Lead customer technical discussions, feasibility studies and integration activities
• Resolve complex engineering issues and maintain architectural consistency across products and teams
• Mentor engineers and architects, contributing to technical standards and long-term technology planning

Technologies:

• Architect
• FPGA
• Hardware
• Matlab
• Python

• Extensive experience in system architecture and development of complex signal-processing, modem or communications products
• Proven ability to define, analyse and manage complex system and product requirements
• Strong experience in hardware/software partitioning, interface definition and architectural design
• Ability to lead technical trade-offs across software and hardware implementation approaches
• Demonstrable technical leadership across multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Significant customer-facing experience, including technical studies, solution evaluation and product or IP integration
• Knowledge of 3GPP standards, including 5G NR or significant 4G LTE experience
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to engineering and commercial stakeholders
• Desirable: experience developing complex IP for FPGA or ASIC implementation
• Desirable: experience taking products from FPGA-based designs towards ASIC deployment
• Desirable: experience in ASIC development, hardware acceleration and digital signal processing
• Desirable: experience with fixed-point design, modelling and implementation
• Desirable: proficiency in MATLAB, Python and C++
• Desirable: contributions to product roadmaps, technology strategy and long-term architectural planning
• Desirable: experience mentoring senior engineers or architects and improving engineering practices