Job Description
Job title: Principal Software Engineer
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Location: Phoenix, AZ (hybrid)
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Pay rate: $75-$120/hour
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PLEASE READ BEFORE APPLYING
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This position supports U.S. export-controlled aerospace programs.
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To be eligible, you MUST be either a:
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- U.S. Citizen
- U.S. Permanent Resident (Green Card holder)
- Refugee
- Asylee
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Candidates working under F-1, CPT, OPT, STEM OPT, H-1B, TN, L-1, O-1, E-3, H-4 EAD, or other temporary visa classifications are NOT eligible and cannot be considered.
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HIGHLY DESIRED EXPERIENCE:
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Candidates with direct experience supporting AC 20-193 compliance and certification efforts are strongly encouraged to apply.
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We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead performance analysis, monitoring, and optimization initiatives for advanced System-on-Chip (SoC) platforms supporting next-generation aerospace and embedded computing applications.
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This role is ideal for a highly experienced engineer with deep expertise in SoC performance characterization, cache analysis, memory hierarchy optimization, and platform-level performance monitoring. The successful candidate will help develop tools, processes, and methodologies used to analyze performance across complex multi-core processor architectures.
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Key Responsibilities
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- Design and develop software tools to monitor and analyze SoC performance.
- Evaluate processor utilization, memory subsystem performance, and communication fabric efficiency.
- Analyze traffic patterns, throughput, latency, congestion, and contention across on-chip networks and interconnects.
- Characterize and establish performance limits for:
- Bandwidth allocation
- Quality of Service (QoS)
- Channel prioritization
- Cache utilization
- Memory access patterns
- Develop performance metrics, benchmarks, and monitoring frameworks.
- Collaborate with hardware, firmware, and systems engineering teams to optimize overall platform performance.
- Support architecture decisions through detailed performance analysis and data-driven recommendations.
- Contribute to certification and compliance activities for safety-critical systems.
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Required Qualifications
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- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
- 15+ years of software engineering experience, including significant experience in embedded and performance-critical environments.
- 10+ years of hands-on experience performing SoC performance analysis and monitoring.
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- Processor architectures
- Memory hierarchy
- Cache subsystems
- High-performance embedded computing
- Experience analyzing and monitoring:
- L2/L3 cache behavior
- Throughput and latency
- Memory contention
- Network-on-Chip (NoC) or communication fabric performance
- Experience developing performance-monitoring tools, frameworks, or automation solutions.
- Experience with Intel Tiger Lake, Ice Lake, Alder Lake, or related Intel processor architectures.
- Expertise in performance characterization and system-level optimization.
- Experience defining and validating QoS policies, bandwidth allocation strategies, and channel prioritization schemes.
- Background supporting safety-critical or regulated industries such as aerospace, defense, avionics, automotive, or industrial systems.
- Experience supporting or leading DO-178C / AC 20-193 certification-related activities.
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Strong understanding of:
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Preferred Qualifications
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Why Apply?
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This is an opportunity to serve as a technical leader influencing the performance architecture of advanced computing platforms. You'll work alongside multidisciplinary engineering teams to solve complex challenges involving processor performance, system optimization, and next-generation embedded technologies.