Senior Principal Applications Engineer

NXPs SerDes Networking Solution (SNS) team delivers open-standard Automotive SerDes Alliance (ASA) Motion Link multi-Gigabit connectivity for next-generation sensors and vehicle displays. As part of the Applications Engineering team you will work with both internal engineering teams to develop collaterals to ease customer adoption of our SerDes solutions as well as with NXPs field teams and customer engineering teams to ensure successful system design and bring-up.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with IC design systems FW and test teams to translate field issues and customer requirements into product improvements and new features.

• Review customer schematics and layouts for signalintegrity and powerintegrity best practices (impedance control terminations return paths via design reference plane strategy).

• Lead boardlevel bringup and validation using oscilloscopes protocol analyzers; generate test reports and recommendations.

• Provide onsite or remote debug support for complex customer issues.

• Develop and maintain application collateral: reference designs layout guidelines design checklists characterization reports application notes training materials.

• Participate in trade shows and provide FAE training

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree or above in Electrical/Electronic Engineering or related field.

• Extensive experience (12 years) in hardware design applications engineering or system validation.

• Familiarity with high-speed data communication protocols and interfaces including Ethernet networking and switching MIPI CSI-2 and display protocols (DP/eDP)

• Strong understanding of highspeed SerDes fundamentals: channel loss reflections return loss insertion loss ISI jitter equalization and clocking.

• Demonstrated experience with multiGbps serial links (e.g. Ethernet PCIe DP USB3.x/USB4 proprietary SerDes).

• Proficiency with SI/PI tools and simulations (e.g. Sparameter analysis eye/jitter simulations) and comfort interpreting simulation and measurement correlation.

• Handson experience using lab equipment: highbandwidth oscilloscopes TDR VNA BERT protocol analyzers logic analyzers and related tools.

• Strong skills in PCB design for highspeed: layer stackup routing constraints differential pairs reference planes decoupling and power delivery.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills to explain complex technical topics to both expert and nonexpert audiences. ⁵

• Ability to work effectively with global crossfunctional teams (design systems test marketing field).

The base salary range for this position is as mentioned below per year. We also provide competitive benefits incentive compensation and/or equity for certain roles.
Company benefits include health. dental and vision insurance. 401(k) and paid leave. Please note that the base salary range (OR hourly rate) is a guideline and individual total compensation may vary based on a number of factors such as qualifications skill level work location and other business and organizational needs. This base pay range is specific to California and is not applicable to other locations. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range as of the date of this posting is:

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