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The product lines span consumer electronics, wearable and personal products, healthcare and medical devices, smarter homes, intelligent Industries, as well as traditional networking and communications products.\nDepartment Description\nBe part of the Microcontroller Systems Engineering Team based in Austin, Texas, responsible for supporting i.MX processors.\nScope of Responsibilities/Expectations\nYou will report to the MPU Systems Mgr. in Austin, Texas USA. Working as a system applications engineer, your primary role is to provide efficient support of the i.MX processors in tight collaboration with the customers, partners, worldwide IC design team and other systems teams for customer applications support. In this context, you will:\nBe the focal point and become an expert in all of NXP i.MX processors products (training provided).\nProvide support to NXP customers at all levels, providing help in their product development, board bring-up, software development and system-level debug to ensure successful customer product launch.\nProvide support to customers in all phases of the design process including evaluation, design-in and production. Provide support on usage of NXP hardware platforms, reference designs, and software deliverables including u-boot, Linux & Android.\nUnderstand customer requests and participate to the NXP product enhancement (NPI Process)\nIn addition you will contribute to the development of firmware, demos and all materials enhancing our product offering to our customers:\nbuild application / demos / drivers porting or development on innovative multimedia, connectivity, infotainment with the i.MX processor family.\nbuild innovative functions or use case demonstrators in all applications fields: video, connectivity…\nperform technical feasibility studies on key functions\nbuild reference designs in various strategic domains, application notes and white papers writing.\nreview Reference Manuals and Data Sheets and contribute to Developer guides and \"Ease-of-use\" manuals.\nSpecific Knowledge/Skills\nMust have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science. Master's degree preferred. Up to 2 years of experience and high level of proficiency in the following areas:\nExperience with embedded Systems on Chip, especially the ARM Cortex architecture.\nExperience using software debugging tools to view and program processor registers.\nHighly proficient in the C programming language\nEmbedded software development and debug experience including one of more of the following: Linux, Android, kernel modules and device drivers\nTechnical writing skills for creating application notes, white papers, and user’s guides / reference manuals.\nFamiliarity with multimedia and graphics technologies is a major plus (OpenGL, 3D graphics, video decode, GStreamer)\nWorking with the marketing, SOC design, architecture, validation, and application teams to write and develop design specifications for PCB reference design and validation board hardware for new SoCs.\nAnticipated hire date: Q1 2027\nMore information about NXP in the United States...\nNXP is an Equal Opportunity/AffirmativeAction Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. 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