Automotive Systems and Applications Engineer

Overview

This role is part of NXP's Automotive Processing business line, supporting customers and driving evaluation, demonstration and enablement of automotive processor platforms for software-defined and zonal vehicle architectures.

What you'll do

• Promote NXP design-win activities by enabling customer transition from reference designs to production applications.
• Create evaluation and demonstration hardware and software solutions to showcase the value, performance and innovation of NXP automotive processors.
• Support customer system design, debug and integration activities across the complete customer development cycle, including concept, evaluation, bring-up, validation, production readiness and post-launch support.
• Develop and demonstrate innovative embedded automotive solutions across vehicle networking, gateway, vehicle dynamics, safety, real-time processing, central-compute, zonal architecture(s) and AI-enabled edge workloads.
• Contribute to NPI activities through application readiness, reference board support, diagnostics software, software package validation, customer enablement, collateral creation and training material.
• Provide technical guidance to field applications engineers, sales engineers, marketing teams and customers on processor features, system architecture, software enablement, debug methodology and platform integration.
• Work closely with marketing, product management, product definition, test engineering, hardware development and software development teams to enable successful launch and adoption of new automotive processors.
• Provide customer input, competitive intelligence and technical feedback to internal teams to optimize processor platforms, software enablement, collateral, tools and customer experience.
• Create technical documentation, application notes, training material, demos, quick-start guidance, debug notes and customer-facing enablement collateral.
• Support technical queries from field applications engineers, sales engineers and marketing teams with clear, accurate and timely responses.
• Contribute to solution roadmap discussions by aligning device capabilities, customer use cases, software readiness, demo priorities, collateral needs and market trends.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or a related discipline.
• 8-12 years of relevant experience in embedded systems, software development, automotive processors and system applications, systems engineering, HW/SW development.
• Strong hands-on development experience with MCU/MPU architecture(s).
• Strong hands-on experience with compilers, emulators, RTOS, bare-metal software, system initialization and embedded debug techniques.
• Strong hands-on with Operating System(s), porting BSPs, boot flows, drivers and system-level debugging.
• Working knowledge of HW and SW (system) debugging using debug tools like T32, logic analyzers, oscilloscopes, digital voltmeters, LabVIEW or equivalent tools.
• Experience interacting directly with customers and solving complex technical issues throughout all stages of customer development cycles.
• Must have very strong English communication skills, both written and verbal.

Nice to have

• Arm-based MCU/MPU architecture experience.
• Development experience with Linux, QNX, FreeRTOS, and Hypervisors.
• Working knowledge of automotive communication interfaces such as CAN, Ethernet, PCIe protocols and associated software.
• Knowledge of AI principles, machine learning fundamentals, model optimization concepts and edge AI deployment workflows.
• Prior experience with edge AI accelerators, AI/ML runtime environments, model deployment on embedded targets, and performance or memory optimization for AI workloads.

Details

• Location: Noida, India.
• Ability and desire to travel domestically and internationally as required.