Principal System Engineer

Location: Leuven

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

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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