Entry Level - Systems & Applications Engineer

Description

The Edge Processing business unit at the company builds embedded processors and microcontrollers for edge computing, with a focus on scalability, performance efficiency, security and intelligence. Its products serve consumer electronics, wearables, healthcare and medical devices, smart homes, industrial applications, and traditional networking and communications.

You will join the Microcontroller Systems Engineering Team in Austin, Texas, which supports i.MX processors.

Responsibilities

• Report to the MPU Systems Manager in Austin, Texas, USA.
• Work as a systems applications engineer supporting i.MX processors, working closely with customers, partners, the worldwide IC design team and other systems teams.
• Become the go-to expert on all i.MX processor products. Training is provided.
• Help customers at every level with product development, board bring-up, software development and system-level debugging to get their products launched successfully.
• Support customers through evaluation, design-in and production, including use of hardware platforms, reference designs and software such as u-boot, Linux and Android.
• Gather customer requests and take part in product enhancement through the NPI process.
• Build applications, demos, and drivers, including porting or developing them, for multimedia, connectivity and infotainment on the i.MX family.
• Build innovative functions and use-case demonstrators across application areas such as video and connectivity.
• Run technical feasibility studies on key functions.
• Build reference designs in strategic domains and write application notes and white papers.
• Review reference manuals and data sheets, and contribute to developer guides and ease-of-use manuals.
• Help develop firmware, demos and materials that strengthen the product offering for customers.
• Work with marketing, SoC design, architecture, validation and application teams to write design specifications for PCB reference designs and validation board hardware for new SoCs.

Requirements

• Hold a bachelor's degree in computer engineering or computer science. A master's degree is preferred.
• Have up to 2 years of experience.
• Have experience with embedded systems on chip, especially the ARM Cortex architecture.
• Have experience using software debugging tools to view and program processor registers.
• Be highly proficient in C.
• Have embedded software development and debugging experience in one or more of: Linux, Android, kernel modules, or device drivers.
• Have technical writing skills for application notes, white papers, user guides and reference manuals.
• Familiarity with multimedia and graphics technologies such as OpenGL, 3D graphics, video decode and GStreamer is a major plus.
• Anticipated hire date: Q1 2027.

Conditions

Based in Austin, Texas, USA.

Reports to the MPU Systems Manager.

The company is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and provides reasonable accommodations for qualified disabled individuals.