Senior Systems Applications Engineer

Position Summary

Join NXP as a Senior Systems Applications Engineer and help shape the future of intelligent edge computing. You will work with industry-leading i.MX application processors and next-generation memory technologies, including, LPDDR4/4X/5/5x, DDR5, and emerging LPDDR6 architectures. As part of NXP's global Systems Engineering organization and collaborating closely with our world-class Global DDR Core Team, you will partner with leading customers, memory suppliers, silicon architects, and software teams to solve complex system challenges and drive innovation from concept to production.

This role offers a unique opportunity to influence future processor and memory architectures, enable breakthrough customer products, and work on the latest advances in high-performance embedded computing, AI-enabled edge processing, and memory subsystem innovation.

Department Description

The Microprocessor Systems Engineering team serves as the technical bridge between customers and NXP's architecture, silicon design, software, validation, and product management organizations.

Based in Austin, Texas, and working closely with experts across NXP's global engineering teams, the organization drives customer success across the i.MX processor portfolio, supports strategic product introductions, and helps define future generations of embedded computing platforms.

You will join a highly experienced team of processor, memory, and system experts responsible for solving challenging customer problems, enabling new technologies, and influencing future SoC and memory subsystem roadmaps.

In This Role, You Will

Enable Industry-Leading Products

• Serve as a technical expert for i.MX processors, DDR memory technologies, and system architecture.
• Support strategic customers through design-in, board bring-up, production ramp, and complex system-level debug.
• Drive successful deployment of products across industrial, automotive, IoT, AI, networking, and consumer markets.

Lead Advanced Memory Innovation

• Work with current and emerging memory technologies including LPDDR4/4X, LPDDR5/5x, DDR5, and LPDDR6.
• Collaborate with memory vendors and ecosystem partners to evaluate future memory architectures and platform requirements.
• Influence next-generation processor and memory subsystem roadmaps through direct engagement with architects and product teams.

Solve Complex System Challenges

• Debug performance, reliability, power, boot, interoperability, and memory subsystem issues across hardware and software domains.
• Analyze DDR controller, PHY, and high-speed interface behavior to optimize system performance and robustness.
• Support silicon bring-up, characterization, and root-cause analysis of complex customer and NPI issues.

Drive Customer Success

• Conduct architecture, schematic, and design reviews for strategic customers.
• Develop reference designs, design guidelines, application notes, and technical training materials.
• Act as a trusted advisor for customers bringing next-generation products to market.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience with embedded SoCs or application processors.
• Strong knowledge of DDR memory technologies including LPDDR4X, LPDDR5/5x, DDR5, memory controllers, and PHY architectures.
• Experience with DDR bring-up, training, margin analysis, validation, and debug.
• Experience reviewing high-speed schematics and PCB layouts.
• Strong understanding of hardware/software interactions within embedded systems.
• Experience with Linux, U-Boot, device drivers, and low-level firmware development with proficiency in C programming.
• Experience using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG debuggers, protocol analyzers, and related debug tools.
• Strong customer-facing communication and technical problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting MPU or application processor customers.
• Experience with LPDDR6, DDR5, advanced memory architectures, or memory subsystem design.
• Experience working directly with memory suppliers and ecosystem partners.
• Familiarity with PCIe, UFS, eMMC, Ethernet, USB, MIPI, and other high-speed interfaces.
• Knowledge of signal integrity, power integrity, and system performance optimization.
• Experience influencing SoC architecture, product definition, or platform strategy.
• Familiarity with AI/ML, multimedia, graphics, industrial, automotive, networking, or edge computing applications.