Principal Hardware Architect Job at Microsoft Corporation (Redmond)

Principal Hardware Domain Architect for Outsourced Development of Hearing Aid accessories

Architect the future of hearing technology. Ensure technology and architectural ...

Location

Denmark , Smørum

Salary:

Not provided

Demant

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Degree in engineering or computer science
Broad technical knowledge within hardware product development
Experience working across multiple disciplines in mechanics, electronics, charging and wireless standards
Experience working as an architect
Experience with external development and outsourcing
Basic knowledge of project management
Leadership experience (from project management or as a leader in a SAFe framework)
Ability to travel up to 15 days a year

Job Responsibility

Navigate in the interface between Demant’s SAFe setup and the ways of working with external partners
Bridge strategy into architecture
Work closely with colleagues in Device Hardware’s ARTs and outsourced development partners
Accountable for hardware architecture and specify requirements towards development partners
Conduct technical analyses and define key architectural enablers
Collaborate with outsourced development and manufacturing partners and fellow architects
Conduct technical analysis and identify and design technical stepping-stones
Ensure sound and fact-based decisions taking implementation cost aspects into account
Act as technical contact with external suppliers and outsourced development partners
Facilitate creation of system design contents including electrical and mechanical interface agreements

Software Architect

This role will architect the software of the Adraxe Seizure Alleviation Platform...

Location

United States , Plymouth

Salary:

Not provided

Blackrock Neurotech

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or similar
Minimum of 10 years working as a Software Engineer with 3+ years in a software architect or principal engineer role
Proven design experience designing software for complex Class II or Class III medical systems
Experience working within a regulated industry, operating within a medical quality system, and a solid understanding of IEC 62304, ISO 14971, ISO 13485, and FDA QSRs
Experience defining a security architecture
Experience with wireless protocols (e.g., BLE, proprietary RF, NFC) and interfacing with mobile/cloud platforms
Familiarity with safety classification of software items and software risk management
Experience with version control (e.g., Git), requirement management (e.g., DOORS, Jama), and issue tracking tools (e.g., Jira)
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Experience selecting and managing vendors

Job Responsibility

Work cross-functionally to define the SW development process
Define the SW design input requirements
Lead the allocation of software functions across the system. This includes mobile application-based software, embedded software, and cloud services
Collaborate with systems engineering, electrical, mechanical, and quality teams to align hardware-software interface requirements and system-level design
Define and document the software architecture in compliance with IEC 62304 and FDA design control regulations
Define a security architecture and implement cybersecurity risk management aligned with FDA premarket cybersecurity guidance, AAMI TIR57, and AAMI TIR97
Support identification of external partners and consultants together with internal stakeholders
Incorporate UX input into the architecture and design language
Guide software design reviews
Understand patient and user risk and defining mitigation strategies

Fulltime

Senior Principal Storage Systems Engineer

Join the Strategic Planning and Architecture (SPARC) team within Microsoft’s Azu...

Location

United States , Redmond

Salary:

163000.00 - 296400.00 USD / Year

Microsoft Corporation

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 9+ years technical engineering experience OR Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND 11+ years technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements
10+ years of experience with system performance evaluation using industry standard benchmarks and/or common cloud workloads
10+ years of experience with significant hardware/software co-design projects involving CPU and/or systems architecture and influencing technical direction
Prior experience developing and driving cloud technologies for improved TCO/$ and TCO/$/performance
Intellectual curiosity and passion about learning and deploying new technologies
Verbal and written communication skills and ability to engage technical & non-technical peers
Experience contributing to complex projects with respect and integrity, including those with multiple workstreams spanning different business and technical disciplines
Understanding of compute and storage systems in the cloud, including storage and network technologies, experience with software-defined storage and distributed file systems
Deep understanding of AI inference systems and associated software, and emerging approaches to orchestrate tiered memory and storage capabilities for distributed serving and KV caching for agentic systems

Job Responsibility

Drive pathfinding initiatives to identify and quantify optimization opportunities across distributed and disaggregated storage and memory architectures for computing and AI inferencing systems
Conduct in-depth architectural analysis of next-generation storage technologies, leveraging a strong understanding of workloads across key Azure segments
Collaborate cross-functionally to influence technology direction and contribute to long-term strategic planning for evolving datacenter architectures
Lead architectural exploration of emerging technologies through robust proof-of-concepts (PoCs) and end-to-end prototyping, aligned with product segments and real-world usage scenarios
Partner with hardware design and software enablement teams to mature innovations from concept validation to production-ready solutions
Engage with Azure operators and customers to identify current challenges and anticipate emerging needs across the platform
Evaluate and identify promising technologies aligned with Azure business priorities, engage ecosystem partners, and de-risk productization through capable PoCs
Work across organizational boundaries with roadmap planners, product architects, and hardware and software engineering teams to successfully integrate innovative solutions into Azure datacenters

Fulltime

Principal AI Network Architect

Do you want to be at the forefront of innovating the latest hardware designs to ...

Location

United States , Redmond

Salary:

139900.00 - 274800.00 USD / Year

Microsoft Corporation

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
Master’s or Doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related fields and 10+ years of technical experience in the domain
Deep expertise with ethernet networking, RDMA (RoCE, Infiniband), congestion control, and layer 2/3 switching
Experience architecting scale-out/backend network for AI GPU clusters
Familiarity with scale-up networks such as NVLinks, UALink
Experience with high radix ethernet switches
Familiarity with AI model execution pipelines, being able to analyze communication flows and its impact on model performance
Prior contributions in standards committee and experience on hyperscale network deployments would be an added benefit
Skilled in partnering and influencing architects, hardware engineers, and software leads

Job Responsibility

Leadership: Spearhead architecture definition and evaluation of AI accelerator platforms, with a focus on high bandwidth, low latency networks. Drive end to end optimization of the stack from hardware, the software kernels
Cross functional collaboration: Partner with silicon and platform design teams to co-design infrastructure that meets performance, reliability and deployment goals. Frame decisions in terms of TCO, performance, flexibility, scalability
Prototyping: You will be working with state of art networking lab to prototype new network architectures
Industry influence: Participate in industry consortiums to shape standards, and influence vendor roadmaps

Fulltime

Senior FPGA Architect / Principal FPGA Engineer

Senior FPGA Architect / Principal FPGA Engineer – Real-Time Processing Systems

Location

Canada , Ottawa

Salary:

Not provided

Myticas Consulting

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Architect-level FPGA expertise designing high-performance real-time processing systems and complex programmable logic architectures
Advanced RTL development using Verilog / SystemVerilog for high-throughput pipelines, accelerators, and timing-sensitive hardware logic
Experience building FPGA-based SoC architectures including AXI/Avalon fabrics, DMA engines, memory controllers, and multi-clock domain designs
Strong background in high-bandwidth data-path design, resource utilization optimization, timing feasibility, and device architecture trade-offs
Hands-on expertise with Xilinx UltraScale+/MPSoC and/or Intel FPGA families (Arria, Stratix, Agilex) and associated development toolchains
Deep experience integrating high-speed interfaces such as PCIe, Ethernet, and high-speed serial transceivers (SERDES)
Familiarity with video/media transport or other latency-sensitive real-time processing environments involving high data throughput
Proven ability to drive timing closure, synthesis, floorplanning, constraint management, and place-and-route optimization
Strong verification leadership including simulation-driven validation, UVM environments, constrained-random testing, and coverage-driven methodologies
Practical lab experience performing FPGA bring-up, system integration, and hardware debug using scopes, logic analyzers, and embedded debug tools

Fulltime

Infosec Architect

A remote Infosec Architect contractor is needed to work with IT partners to unde...

Location

United States , Remote

Salary:

Not provided

Revel IT

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

High School Diploma or equivalent experience in related field
A minimum of 5-8 years of prior experience in a similar or related role (an equivalent combination of experience and education may be considered)
At least 3+ years exposure with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure Experience with architecting multi-cloud and/or hybrid-cloud environments
Must have experience working across multiple large scale cloud providers, including AWS, Azure, etc.
Must be experienced in creating a strategic cyber security technology direction, aligning it with tactical activities, and communicating plans broadly across the organization
Experience in analyzing cyber security risks and architecting security solutions
Proven knowledge of cloud services and distributed system architecture
Create secure patterns to simplify secure application migrations to cloud environments
Communication, Cyber Controls expertise, Security Architecture and design
PCI compliance, audit background, IT Engineering

Job Responsibility

Security Architecture Development and Maintenance
Assists the Sr. and Principal Architects with the creation of security designs and frameworks for technology systems
Monitors security intelligence sources for emerging industry security technologies, technology issues, regulatory issues and practices
Provides oversight of new development efforts to ensure adherence to security policies, standards, and reference architectures
Actively participates in decisioning processes related to adoption of new hardware and software technologies
Provides advisory services as needed to information security teams
Utilizes planning and organization tools to develop project/action plans
Meets deliverable deadlines as directed
Information Security Strategy
Assists the Principal and Sr. Information Security Architects with the development of the annual Information Security Strategy. This includes strategy development, formalized road map documentation, and continued maintenance

Principal SoC Architect

At Arm an SoC Architect is a technical role responsible for architecting and des...

Location

United States , San Diego; Austin; Chandler; Raleigh

Salary:

241100.00 - 326100.00 USD / Year

ARM

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Significant experience in architecting scalable SoCs on groundbreaking nodes across multiple market segments
Expertise in multiple of the following areas: heterogeneous compute architectures, power management, clocking, coherent and non-coherent interconnect, PCIe/CXL, multi-level caching architecture, functional profiling & debug, security and access control, virtualization, memory hierarchies, sophisticated 2.5D/3D packaging, performance / power modeling & estimation, soft real-time accelerators, DRAM memory technologies.
Excellent presentation, interpersonal and communication skills. Able to present at executive level inside and outside of Arm.
Bachelor's or Master’s degrees in Electrical or Computer Engineering and 10 years of experience in a senior development or leadership position within semiconductor industry
Ability to influence at all levels, across engineering and business organizations internal and external to Arm, in their peer group, across execution, strategy and change.

Job Responsibility

Design and develop Arm’s SoC architecture based on Arm product IP and system architecture to meet the requirements of best-in-class compute across our market segments.
Work proactively across Arm’s architecture and core technology teams to ensure a roadmap of architecture platforms and technology feature development supporting the needs of groundbreaking SoCs
Collaborate with a team of SoC architects with the expertise to leave no stone unturned in the quest to design world-leading SoCs. Ability to scale across multiple partners and deliver multiple engagements in parallel.
Collaborate with core, technology and software teams to optimize the end-to-end platform solutions
Participate in identifying the key use cases and workloads showcasing the best of Arm IP/platform
Work with engineering teams across Arm to coordinate on-time delivery of Arm IP into SoCs, and work together to ensure that what we learn from SoC development shapes how we develop future IP.
Drive innovation and continuous improvement in SoC architecture staying up to date on industry trend and new technologies
Participate and drive partner/customer specific architecture discussions. Bring specifications to a mature stage allowing design and implementation teams to engage actively

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Fulltime

Principal Firmware Engineer

The Microsoft Silicon Engineering Solutions and Cloud Hardware Infrastructure En...

Location

India , Bangalore

Salary:

Not provided

Microsoft Corporation

Expiration Date

Until further notice

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related technical discipline AND 15+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience
Experience with Platform initialization firmware, board support package integration, low level drivers for peripherals using one or more of the following: PCIe, I2C, eMMC, SPI, USB, UARTs as well as Memory Management, Scheduling, Interrupts and multi-threading
Experience working from early concept of Architecture, designing, and delivering on new technologies across the entire platform
Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role
These requirements include, but are not limited to, the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter

Job Responsibility

As a Principal level engineer you would be working with product architects, firmware teams, product managers to provide critical guidance, system-level debugging and troubleshooting to various teams on Cloud HW systems, focusing on new technologies like GPU and AI accelerators
Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Architects, hardware engineers, software developers, validation & integration and product managers and ensure that firmware requirements and specifications are clearly defined and highlight any gaps required for a product
Collaborate with hardware engineers to ensure proper integration and communication between hardware and firmware components
Design and implement firmware modules to support various hardware interfaces, including USB vNIC, SPI, I2C, PCIe, and other related protocols
Perform system-level debugging and troubleshooting to identify and resolve hardware/firmware-related issues
Embody our culture and values

Fulltime

Principal Hardware Architect

Microsoft Corporation

Location:
United States , Redmond

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
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Job Posted:
February 03, 2026

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