Principal System Engineer

Job Summary
NXP Semiconductors Belgium is seeking a Principal System Engineer to lead the architectural definition, design, and implementation of complex embedded systems, ensuring cutting-edge performance and reliability for our next-generation breakthrough semiconductor products. We are actively looking for motivated and passionate system engineer(s) with prior work experience in system engineering, architecture and IP definition, etc.

Job Responsibilities

- Lead the system-level architecture definition and design for new semiconductor products, encompassing hardware, software, and firmware aspects.
- Prepare technical documentation – product specifications, datasheets, white papers, presentations, application notes, and develop product demos that highlight the value proposition and advantages of products
- Collaborate closely with hardware, software, and verification teams to ensure seamless integration and validation of system components.
- Develop and implement system-level test plans and strategies to ensure robust functionality and performance.
- Contribute to intellectual property generation through patent disclosures and technical publications.
- Perform competition benchmarking and product trade-off assessment
- Contribute towards standardization activities

Job Qualifications

- Master's degree or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.

- 8+ years of experience in system engineering, with a strong focus on embedded systems and semiconductor product development.
- Excellent verbal and written communication and teamwork skills, ability to work with cross-functional teams and can-do attitude
- Solid experience in wired and wireless communication system design.
- Solid knowledge of multiple interface specifications like USB, MIPI, I3C, I2C, UART, SPI and GPIO.
- Strong understanding of digital design fundamentals and RTL (Verilog/SystemVerilog)
- Good problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, C, C++, MATLAB).
- Experience in working on ARM/RISC-V core architecture would be an advantage
- Experience with FPGA-based Pre-Silicon validation Platform development for IP and Subsystems

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