Principal Board Solutions Design Engineer

Summary:

Board Solutions is a central team within NXP’s Technology (CTO) organization responsible for design, manufacturing, compliance and supply chain operations of hardware boards. The organization provides hardware solutions to all business units within NXP through its global presence in North America, Europe, and Asia. Board types include customer reference design, silicon validation, failure analysis, and reliability applications.

The team is looking for a Senior Design Engineer to architect, design and implement high quality, robust, and state of the art board hardware for a wide range of businesses and targeted verticals. The individual is responsible for all aspects of the product from the R&D design stage, bring-up, production support, and sustaining engineering as needed.

Job responsibilities:

• Architect, design, and support a variety of mission critical NXP platforms and associated tradeoffs for complex electronic systems that span hardware, software, and mechanical aspects.
• Participate in reviews of schematics and layouts to improve products across the Hardware Solutions team
• Perform PISI simulations when required.
• Provide design expertise and regional support for BU silicon, application teams, and third parties as needed.
• Work closely with our SoC and Applications team & Third parties to ensure requirements are properly defined and documented.
• Ensure board designs are cost effective for their intended applications.
• Provide technical oversight into the CAD team with respect to proper PCB layout design and best practices.
• Prepare test procedures and associated test reports documenting the lab results.
• Strong bring up and debugging skills in a lab environment along with running associated test equipment
• Ability to work independently and in a design team environment.
• Improve core competency in board design technologies.
• Engage and provide consultation to external customers on board design and best practices. Perform critical design reviews for key customer accounts as needed.
• Excellent communication skills to work across organizational boundaries (Marketing, SoC, SW, Applications , Validation, PE/TE etc).

Key Competencies:

• Define architecture to implement design per Technical Requirements Document (TRD)
• Ability to develop system architecture options that meet requirements, analyze system performance, and make recommendations based on various optimization criteria.
• Full ownership and leadership in the area of HW design, both at the board and system level.
• Implement designs that are competitive with industry standards, high quality, cost effective, and delivered on time.
• Critical out-of-the-box thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Planning, organizing, decision-making & communication skills.
• Drive standards for schematics, logic symbols, design for test, design for manufacturing, and certifications
• Ability to adapt to a dynamic and changing environment and business conditions.
• Ability to work in a cross-functional team spanning various disciplines: Marketing, Sales, Development, System & Application Engineering, System Architecture, SW engineering, Silicon Validation teams, Design, Library/CAD, Layout, Product & Test Engineering.
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks and projects in a high-pressure environment.
• Drive innovations in design process and design IP reuse and provide training and promotion for new technologies and methodologies to teams.
• Ability to articulate and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience on Analog & Digital circuit, PMIC, Microcontrollers, Microprocessor,
• Working knowledge of LPDDR4, LPDDR5, Ethernet, PCIe, USB, UART, I2C, SPI, CAN, SDHC, eMMC, other high-speed serial and parallel interfaces.
• Knowledge and experience in RF communication using WiFi, BLE, NFC, V2X, GSM and other RF low frequency communication
• Good knowledge and hands-on experience on EMI/EMC analysis & testing.
• Good knowledge and hands-on experience on Power Integrity and Signal Integrity simulations.
• Estimation of time and effort for design and development of Hardware design.

Education and Experience:

• Education: BS or MS in Electrical Engineering.
• 12+ years of board design experience
• Exposure and design experience in Consumer, Automotive, Networking, Wireless and/or Industrial applications is a plus.
• Technical knowledge and/or experience in Board Design & Manufacturing preferred.
• Strong inter-personal and written & oral communication skills.

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