Senior Firmware Developer

NXP is adding a new boot firmware team in India. The India team will be part of the larger NXP’s System ROM team with members from Austin, TX, Shanghai and Suzhou locations in China and ROZNOV location in Czech Republic. This position is for an experienced engineer with solid technical background, with leadership qualities to inspire and lead the team in India.

Job Summary:

Development of HAL and Peripheral device drivers for MCX, Crossover RT and i.MX family of devices, such as I2C Master/Slave, SPI Master/Slave, UART, USB, etc., to work in standalone bare metal, ROM and RTOS environments.

Deliver high quality, well documented and tested code for customers’ reference and use.

Verify ROM code and other software deliverables on pre-silicon test and debug environments such as RTL and Zebu.

Actively support key customers.

Analyze, investigate and resolve system level issues together with other teams globally

Key Challenges:

The development of rom code in the absence of silicon

Verification and debugging issues in pre-silicon environments, meeting 100% test coverage

Hardening of the critical sections of the code to ensure rom code is not vulnerable to physical or logical attacks

Meeting prescribed edge lock security level and other security and safety standards

Cross functional aspects:

Development of rom/bootloader code involves interactions with several teams working on the SOC, marketing, systems architects, SOC design, verification and validation leads, documentation, software and other team leads.

Mentoring will be provided by senior members of the system rom team with over 10 years of experience in rom development and architecture

Job Qualifications:

BS/MS Degree, EE or Computer Engineering with embedded software focus, or equivalent experience

MS with 5 year of experience or BS with 8 years of experience in the related field is required

Familiar with ARM Assembly and C/C++ programming is a plus

Understanding of embedded software development including device drivers and consumer embedded applications

Familiarity in following areas is preferred: Flash, SPI, I2C, USB, UART, CAN, Python, GIT, etc.

Experience with the ARM Architecture is preferred

Experience with GCC and GNU make, ARM compilers such as IAR, Keil and DS-5 is preferred

Experience with Atlassian tools such as JIRA, Bitbucket, Bamboo, etc., is preferred

Experience using logic analyzers and oscilloscopes is preferred

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