Senior Software Product Manager - Embedded & Real-Time Systems (Automotive)

Senior Software Product Manager – Embedded & Real-Time Systems (Automotive)

Location: Munich, DE, Bucharest, RO, Austin, TX (or flexible NXP location)

Function: Automotive Processors – Senior Software Product Management

Role Overview

We are hiring a Senior Software Product Manager to own the low-level software stack for next-generation automotive real-time processing. You will drive product roadmap, strategy and execution across Real-Time Drivers (RTD), Firmware, Security, and BSP, ensuring alignment from silicon to system integration. This role is critical to enabling system bring-up, software quality, and scalable customer deployment in Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) architectures.

Key Responsibilities

Product Ownership

- Define, execute, and own the product roadmap for: Low-level real-time software including RTD (drivers), BSP (Board Support Package), RTOS, RTHV(virtualization/isolation)
- System management (boot, firmware services, PMIC control)
- Security (secure boot, crypto, key management)

- Translate OEM, Tier 1, and systems requirements into clear product feature definitions and priorities
- Balance trade-offs across timeline, quality, performance, safety, security, and scalability

System Bring-Up & Integration

- Responsible for: Boot and power sequencing
- Driver and peripheral enablement (CAN, LIN, DDR, PCIe, Ethernet)
- System firmware, safety and security framework

- Drive adoption of: AI-assisted tools across SW lifecycle
- Define and enable AI-driven customer experience on platform

- Ensure low-level software enables end-to-end platform bring-up to ensure system-level readiness, not just feature delivery.

Cross-Functional Leadership

- Serve as the single owner bridging: Software R&D (feature delivery)
- Applications Engineering (customer enablement, integration)
- Product & Systems Engineering Teams (platform definition and roadmap)

- Drive clear ownership, dependency management, and execution alignment across teams

Execution & Delivery

- Own delivery across: Pre-silicon bring-up, NPI, customer deployment and maintenance

- Track and communicate: System readiness
- Risks and dependencies
- Execution gaps and 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 low-level SW in customer discussions on bring-up, performance, safety, and security

Qualifications

Required

- 10+ years in embedded software, automotive systems, or related field
- Strong background in low-level SW: Drivers, bootloaders, firmware, BSP
- AUTOSAR, RTOS, or Zephyr environments

- Experience in product management, technical leadership, or system architecture
- Solid understanding of system bring-up and HW/SW integration challenges

Preferred

- Experience with automotive SoCs or industrial systems
- Familiarity with safety (ISO 26262) and security (ISO 21434, HSE)
- Experience with CI/CD and OTA-based software delivery
- Experience enabling: AI-assisted development tools
- AI-driven developer and customer workflows

- Customer-facing experience with OEMs or Tier 1s

What Success Looks Like

- Improved software quality for first-time success rate
- Reduced customer escalations
- Strong alignment across SW R&D, Applications, and Product teams
- Faster customer enablement and NPI execution
- Reliable system-level bring-up readiness for new platforms

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