Linux Software Engineer - System Manager

Description

The team builds and supports system management firmware for NXP's i.MX family of processors, working on the company's SoCs and development boards.

The role sits within a group that works alongside the SoC architecture team and the i.MX board support package teams.

Responsibilities

• Design system management features across the i.MX range and lead the hardware support for SoC system control.
• Bring system management firmware up on new i.MX SoCs and development boards.
• Write tests that raise code coverage for system management code and measure firmware performance.
• Produce documentation and support material for the system management firmware.
• Coordinate with the SoC architecture team so system management firmware is supported consistently and efficiently.
• Work with the BSP teams covering System ROM, ELE ROM and firmware, U-Boot, ATF, Linux and the MCU SDK to integrate and tune system management functions.
• Help internal support teams port, debug and optimize system management firmware on customer systems.

Requirements

• A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a closely related field.
• At least 2 years of software development experience on embedded systems.
• Strong C programming skills for embedded systems.
• Comfort using Linux shell commands and tools such as git and make for embedded software work.
• Hands-on experience with ARM Cortex-M and Cortex-A architectures.
• Knowledge of ARM assembly language.
• Nice to have: experience with embedded debug tools and probes, such as Lauterbach.
• Nice to have: understanding of power management in embedded systems, including DVFS, CPUIdle and suspend-to-RAM.
• Nice to have: knowledge of HDL languages such as Verilog and VHDL.
• Nice to have: knowledge of the ARM System Control and Management Interface (SCMI) specification.

Conditions

The posting gives no further detail on work location or schedule.

NXP is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and offers reasonable accommodations to qualified disabled applicants.