Senior Systems Applications Engineer
About The Position
Join NXP as a Senior Systems Applications Engineer, working with i.MX application processors and current and emerging memory technologies, including LPDDR4/4X/5/5x, DDR5, and LPDDR6 architectures. As part of NXP's global Systems Engineering organization, you will collaborate with the Global DDR Core Team, customers, memory suppliers, silicon architects, and software teams to solve system challenges and drive innovation from concept to production. The Microprocessor Systems Engineering team connects customers with NXP's architecture, silicon design, software, validation, and product management organizations. Based in Austin, Texas, the organization works with global engineering teams to support customers across the i.MX processor portfolio, strategic product introductions, and future embedded computing platforms. In this role, you will provide technical expertise on i.MX processors, DDR technologies, and system architecture; support customer design-in, board bring-up, production ramp, and system-level debug; and help deploy products across industrial, automotive, IoT, AI, networking, and consumer markets. You will work with memory vendors and ecosystem partners on future memory architectures, contribute to processor and memory subsystem roadmaps, analyze system issues across hardware and software, and support silicon bring-up, characterization, and root-cause analysis. You will also conduct customer architecture, schematic, and design reviews and develop reference designs, design guidelines, application notes, and training materials.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- At least 5 years of experience with embedded SoCs or application processors.
- Strong knowledge of DDR memory technologies, including LPDDR4X, LPDDR5/5x, DDR5, memory controllers, and PHY architectures.
- Experience with DDR bring-up, training, margin analysis, validation, and debug.
- Experience reviewing high-speed schematics and PCB layouts.
- Strong understanding of hardware/software interactions in embedded systems.
- Experience with Linux, U-Boot, device drivers, and low-level firmware development, with proficiency in C programming.
- Experience using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG debuggers, protocol analyzers, and related debug tools.
- Strong customer-facing communication and technical problem-solving skills.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting MPU or application processor customers.
- Experience with LPDDR6, DDR5, advanced memory architectures, or memory subsystem design.
- Experience working directly with memory suppliers and ecosystem partners.
- Familiarity with PCIe, UFS, eMMC, Ethernet, USB, MIPI, and other high-speed interfaces.
- Knowledge of signal integrity, power integrity, and system performance optimization.
- Experience influencing SoC architecture, product definition, or platform strategy.
- Familiarity with AI/ML, multimedia, graphics, industrial, automotive, networking, or edge computing applications.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a technical expert for i.MX processors, DDR memory technologies, and system architecture.
- Support strategic customers through design-in, board bring-up, production ramp, and complex system-level debug.
- Drive successful product deployment across industrial, automotive, IoT, AI, networking, and consumer markets.
- Work with current and emerging memory technologies, including LPDDR4/4X, LPDDR5/5x, DDR5, and LPDDR6.
- Collaborate with memory vendors and ecosystem partners to evaluate future memory architectures and platform requirements.
- Influence next-generation processor and memory subsystem roadmaps through engagement with architects and product teams.
- Debug performance, reliability, power, boot, interoperability, and memory subsystem issues across hardware and software domains.
- Analyze DDR controller, PHY, and high-speed interface behavior to optimize system performance and robustness.
- Support silicon bring-up, characterization, and root-cause analysis of customer and NPI issues.
- Conduct architecture, schematic, and design reviews for strategic customers.
- Develop reference designs, design guidelines, application notes, and technical training materials.
- Advise customers bringing next-generation products to market.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
