Entry Level Systems & Applications Engineer

Business Unit Description

NXP's Edge Processing business unit empowers Edge computing with an embedded compute portfolio of processors and microcontrollers built on scalability, performance efficiency, security, and intelligence. Product lines span consumer electronics, wearable and personal products, healthcare and medical devices, smarter homes, intelligent industries, as well as traditional networking and communications products.

Department Description

Join the Microcontroller Systems Engineering Team in Austin, Texas, responsible for supporting i.MX processors.

Scope of Responsibilities/Expectations

Reporting to the MPU Systems Manager in Austin, Texas, you will work as a system applications engineer, providing efficient support of i.MX processors in collaboration with customers, partners, worldwide IC design team, and other systems teams for customer applications support. In this context, you will:

• Become the focal point and expert in all NXP i.MX processors products (training provided).
• Support NXP customers at all levels, helping in product development, board bring-up, software development, and system-level debug to ensure successful product launches.
• Support customers in all phases of the design process including evaluation, design-in, and production, and assist with NXP hardware platforms, reference designs, and software deliverables including u-boot, Linux, and Android.
• Understand customer requests and participate in NXP product enhancement (NPI Process).

Additionally, you will contribute to firmware, demos, and materials enhancing our product offering:

• Build applications, demos, and drivers porting or development on innovative multimedia, connectivity, and infotainment with the i.MX processor family.
• Build innovative functions or use case demonstrators in application fields like video and connectivity.
• Perform technical feasibility studies on key functions.
• Build reference designs in strategic domains, and write application notes and white papers.
• Review Reference Manuals and Data Sheets, and contribute to Developer guides and Ease-of-use manuals.

Specific Knowledge/Skills

Must have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science (Master's preferred). Up to 2 years of experience and high proficiency in the following areas:

• Experience with embedded Systems on Chip, especially ARM Cortex architecture.
• Experience using software debugging tools to view and program processor registers.
• Highly proficient in the C programming language.
• Embedded software development and debug experience including Linux, Android, kernel modules, and device drivers.
• Technical writing skills for creating application notes, white papers, and user's guides/reference manuals.
• Familiarity with multimedia and graphics technologies is a major plus (OpenGL, 3D graphics, video decode, GStreamer).
• Working with marketing, SOC design, architecture, validation, and application teams to write and develop design specifications for PCB reference design and validation board hardware for new SoCs.