R&D SWFW Management Director

Role Overview

We are hiring aR&D Director Software/Firmware R&D Director (Manager role)to own theSoftware/Firmware stackfor custom-ASIC and General-Market Interface products. You will drive SW/FW architecture implementation and execution acrossmultiple products ensuring alignment beginning from product definition to silicon tapeout to system integration. This role is critical to enablinghigh-quality and timely FW development and scalable customer deploymentin various platforms.

Key Responsibilities

FW Ownership & cross-functional collaboration

• Translate systems requirements and product feature definitions into FW/SW architecture with clear agreements with customers product definer Digital & Analog HW design teams Verification and AMS teams Project Manager Applications and validation teams

High-Quality and timeliness of deliveries

• Define clean modular and reusable partitioning of the FW/SW and implement the design in a high-quality and project-plan aligned timely manner
• Review and improve the way-of-working and execution flows to meet the best industry standard practices
• Enhance the teams efficiency by embracing and incorporating the latest AI-ML tools to their best use
• Implement FW unit level verification and use FPGA platforms with code-coverage metrics for bug-free FW design freeze before tapeout
• Guide and motivate the engineering team to exceed the above stated goals
• Anticipate any deviations from planned targets and apply mitigation plans

Customer & Ecosystem Engagement

• Engage with OEMs and Tier 1 partners to understand real-world requirements.
• Translate customer feedback into product improvements
• Drive simplification usability and reduced complexity to accelerate adoption and design wins
• Represent SW/FW in customer discussions during definition execution bring-up performance smooth launch and post-ramp support

Qualifications

• 15 years in embedded firmware portable systems software or related field
• Strong background in low-level SW:
  • Drivers bootloaders firmware
  • RTOS non-RTOS FW architectures ARM and RISC based SoC/ASICs
• Experience in product management technical leadership and system architecture
• Solid understanding of system bring-up and HW/SW integration challenges

• Customer-facing experience with OEMs or Tier 1s

What Success Looks Like

• Strong technical skillset to be able to guide the FW team as a technical leader (not just a resource manager)
• Improvedsoftware quality for first-time success rate reduced bug-count and reduced dependency on post-tapeout FW patching via NVM/SRAM
• Reduced customer escalations
• Strong alignment across R&D Applications and Product teams
• Fastercustomer enablement and NPI execution
• Reliablesystem-level bring-up readinessfor new platforms

NXP is committed to equal pay for equal work and work of equal value and applies fair consistent and transparent remuneration practices.

This position falls under the applicable National Collective Labour Agreement (Metalmeccanica Industria).

Where relevant the total compensation package may also include additional elements such as annual incentive opportunities and/or equity along with a competitive benefits package.

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