Principal Automotive Applications Engineer
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Job Summary
The Principal Engineer plays a key technical and customerfacing role within the Automotive MPU Applications team. This position focuses on guiding customers through complex bringup integration and problemsolving activities across both hardware and software domains. The role requires a strong software background particularly in Linuxbased multicore embedded environments - along with the seniority to influence internal teams and customer engineering groups.
Your Responsibilities
Act as a primary technical interface to automotive customers providing highquality support across the full product lifecycle.
Diagnose and resolve complex HW/SW integration issues on multicore MPU platforms including boot drivers memory subsystems interconnects and performance bottlenecks.
Support customer platform development through debug sessions design reviews architectural guidance and bestpractice recommendations.
Drive crossfunctional collaboration with silicon design validation systems and software teams to resolve customer blockers and feed insights back into product development.
Contribute to application notes reference designs training materials and internal/external documentation.
Mentor junior engineers and help shape technical direction within the Applications team.
Your profile
BSc. MSc. or PhD degree in Software Engineering Computer Systems Engineering or Electrical / Electronics Engineering.
Deep expertise in embedded Linux (kernel drivers Yocto debugging).
Strong analytical skills for HW/SW systemlevel problem solving.
Handson experience with multicore SoCs highspeed interfaces and lowlevel software.
Excellent communication skills and comfort interacting directly with customers.
Ability to lead complex issues to closure across distributed teams.
Nice to Have / Additional Value
Familiarity with automotive software processes CI/CD
Experience with bootloaders board bringup performance analysis or virtualization.
Knowledge of automotive system architectures (zonal compute ADAS/IVI).
Required Experience:
Staff IC
Key Skills
- Design
- Academics
- AutoCAD 3D
- Cafe
- Fabrication
- Java
About Company
NXP is a global semiconductor company creating solutions that enable secure connections for a smarter world.
