Principal SoC Development Platform Engineer
Originally posted 6 November 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As part of Cirrus Logic Venture Labs, you will architect and build software development environments bridging SoC architecture, compiler technologies, embedded software, and secure cloud infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Architect a unified compilation and deployment framework spanning embedded firmware, DSP algorithms, ML models, and FPGA RTL configurations.
- Develop and integrate compiler frontends, intermediate representations, optimization passes, backends, and runtime frameworks targeting heterogeneous compute resources.
- Build an AI-agent-driven development platform leveraging LLMs to automate code generation, workload partitioning, build orchestration, simulation, and debugging.
- Architect and own a secure, cloud-native, multi-tenant development environment supporting collaboration among Cirrus, third-party software IP providers, and customers.
- Design tenant isolation, encryption, secrets management, secure boot and provisioning interfaces, and chain-of-trust mechanisms extending from cloud infrastructure to silicon.
- Partner with SoC architects, ML engineers, DSP specialists, embedded software teams, and security experts to evaluate compiler frameworks, simulation platforms, and cloud infrastructure.
What you'll need
- Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent technical expertise, with 10+ years of relevant experience in compiler development, embedded systems, heterogeneous computing, or developer platforms.
- Deep knowledge of compiler design, code generation, optimization, runtime systems, and processor microarchitecture, with hands-on experience in LLVM, MLIR, GCC, or comparable compiler infrastructure.
- Strong experience with ARM embedded development and exposure to DSP programming, ML inference deployment, accelerator mapping, and FPGA development flows.
- Experience architecting cloud-native developer platforms, multi-tenant infrastructure, secure build environments, CI/CD pipelines, and software supply-chain security.
- Understanding of secure software development practices, workload isolation, cryptographic signing, software provenance, trusted execution, and secure deployment.
- Demonstrated experience applying LLMs, AI agents, and automated engineering workflows to software development, compilation, testing, or toolchain orchestration.
- Strong proficiency in C/C++, Python, APIs, SDKs, build systems, and distributed development infrastructure.
Nice to have
- Experience developing compilers, runtimes, or programming environments for NPUs, AI accelerators, DSPs, GPUs, or custom processor architectures.
- Familiarity with ML compilation and deployment frameworks such as TVM, IREE, ONNX, TensorFlow Lite, or PyTorch.
- Experience with FPGA synthesis, hardware/software co-simulation, virtual platforms, and performance modeling.
- Experience designing secure multi-party development platforms, confidential computing environments, hardware roots of trust, or protected IP distribution ecosystems.
- Background in semiconductor startups, emerging compute architectures, developer ecosystems, or early-stage technology incubation.
Skills: compiler, LLVM, MLIR, heterogeneous compute, cloud platform, hardware root of trust
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This role has been open 0 days — well below the 55-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
1009
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Median days open
55 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$236k
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| Metric | Cirrus Logic | All employers we track in this specialty (1009 roles · 94 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 3 | 1009 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 14 | 6558 · 156 employers |
| Median days open | 133 d | 55 d (+78 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: compiler, LLVM, MLIR, heterogeneous compute, cloud platform, hardware root of trust
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 321 open roles · median 57 d
- Qualcomm · 59 open roles · median 59 d
- Graphcore · 48 open roles · median 99 d
- AMD · 45 open roles · median 36 d
- Intel Corporation · 39 open roles · median 22 d
- Arm Holdings · 36 open roles · median 9 d
How we counted: 1009 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 94 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 6 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.