Principal HW System Architect

I’m working with a major global semiconductor company looking for a Hardware / SoC System Architect to join its connectivity team in the Netherlands.

The team develops connectivity SoCs used across embedded, IoT and industrial applications, supporting technologies including Bluetooth, BLE, Wi-Fi and sub-GHz.

This is a genuine system architecture role with influence over what gets built, rather than simply implementing an architecture that has already been decided.

You’ll work at whole-chip level, looking at how IP, memory, interconnect, clocking and power come together across the SoC.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Translating product and customer requirements into clear architecture and design specifications
• Making system-level trade-offs around low power, latency, throughput and performance
• Defining how IP blocks, memory and interconnect fit together
• Evaluating new platform concepts and architectural options
• Assessing bus, cache and overall system performance
• Working closely with digital design, verification, software and product teams
• Producing technical specifications and documentation used throughout development

What they’re looking for

The hiring manager is open to two types of profile:

• An experienced SoC / Hardware / System Architect
• A strong Senior or Principal Digital IC Designer who is already working beyond individual RTL blocks and wants to move into architecture

The key is having a system-level mindset. Your experience should involve areas such as IP integration, interconnect, low power, memory architecture, latency or throughput rather than being focused purely on one RTL block.

Previous RF or wireless experience is not essential.

This is also a documentation-heavy role. A significant part of the job involves turning high-level requirements into detailed specifications for design teams, so you need to genuinely enjoy defining and communicating architecture.

Why consider it?

• Join a large, established international semiconductor organisation
• Work on commercially important connectivity products with global reach
• Have genuine influence over future SoC architecture
• Work across architecture, digital design, verification, software and product
• Long-term product roadmaps and an established engineering environment
• Strong semiconductor ecosystem around Eindhoven and ’s-Hertogenbosch

Location: ’s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Working pattern: 3 days per week onsite

Please contact Steph Hutchinson for more information.