Job Description

About the job

As a Strategic System Architect, you will play a central role in shaping next-generation SoC products — from defining platform and IP architecture to guiding firmware development, verification, and meeting demanding performance, power, and area targets. This requires venturing into the unknown, analyzing upcoming requirements and technologies, such as post-quantum cryptography or artificial intelligence. You will collaborate closely with product management and cross-functional engineering teams, turning business requirements into precise technical specifications and driving products from concept to silicon and beyond. The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience from embedded SW development with a strong understanding of the HW-SW boundary, a genuine passion for embedded systems and microcontroller architecture, and the rare ability to hold the full complexity of a product in mind while communicating with clarity across disciplines. This is not a pure software development role — it is a position for someone who wants to shape the architecture of tomorrow's embedded systems and leave a real mark on the products that power them. If that sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you.

Key responsibilities

• Analyze and solve complex problems, e.g. algorithms or specific use cases, which require an understanding of the complete HW+SW system

• HW+SW co-architecture for new products

• Analyze and define how to improve the system support for embedded RTOSes, in particular Zephyr OS

• Collaborate with product management to settle the requirements for a SoC product including the key performance indicators for HW and SW

• Collaborate with product management to settle the system requirements for a SoC product including the key performance indicators for HW and SW

• Guide and support development of low-level FW for the SoC platform/product

• Guide and support verification and test of the SoC platform/product

• Study how SW can be optimized to meet power, performance, and cost targets for a given SoC system.

• Contribute to system modeling to verify HW+SW architecture proposals
  

Key Qualifications

• Hands-on experience bridging software and hardware, with a strong ability to work cross-functionally with hardware teams and drive software-informed decisions at the hardware level.

• Fast learner with a proven ability to adapt to new technologies and domains with minimal ramp-up time.

• Strong interest in microcontroller-based system architecture and embedded design

• Master's degree in electrical system engineering, technical cybernetics or similar

• The ability to navigate in a global matrix organization

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
  
  

Personal Skills

As our Strategic System Architect, you thrive at the intersection of technology and complexity. You naturally hold the full picture of a product in mind — from silicon architecture through firmware to verification — and you have a sharp eye for dependencies and trade-offs across digital, analog, and software layers. You don't wait to be told where the gaps are; you spot them, own them, and drive progress toward targets. What sets you apart is not depth in a single discipline, but the rare ability to move fluently across the full stack while communicating with clarity and precision at every level. If you're someone who gets energy from connecting the dots others miss, this role was built for you.

Working for Nordic

Working at Nordic, you will be inspired and supported to develop yourself. Our teams enjoy a professional and informal working environment. We value and encourage the continuous development of skills and expertise to the highest levels. We are proud of our Norwegian heritage, our highly skilled international workforce, and our world-leading innovation.

We offer a variety of tasks and projects, and the possibility to work alongside some of the world’s most renowned experts within their field. We encourage our employees to question the established and innovate while expecting professionalism, commitment, and the will to learn.   

Benefits

• Competitive salary with short- and long-term incentive plan

• Flexible working hours

• Medical insurance

• Family-friendly policies, insurances, and benefits

Practical details

• Location: Trondheim, Norway
  

Please note that this position might be subject to a background check.