Linux Software Engineer - System Manager
NXP Semiconductors
Austin
, Texas
, United States
VHDL
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SOC
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Posted Sept. 26, 2026
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Claim and feature this jobKey Challenges:
- Architect system management features across the i.MX portfolio and drive SoC hardware support for system control.
- Port system management firmware to new i.MX SoCs and development boards.
- Develop tests to improve system management code coverage and assess firmware performance metrics.
- Develop documentation and support collateral for system management firmware.
Cross functional aspects:
- Work with NXP SoC architecture team to ensure consistent and efficient support of system management firmware.
- Collaborate with i.MX BSP (System ROM, ELE ROM/firmware, U-Boot, ATF, Linux, MCU SDK) team to integrate and optimize system management functions.
- Work with internal support teams to port, debug, and optimize system management firmware on customer systems.
Your skills:
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or similar disciplines.
- 2+ years of software development experience with embedded systems.
- Proficiency with C-programming on embedded systems.
- Proficiency with using Linux shell commands and tools (e.g. GIT, make, etc.) for embedded software development.
- Experience with ARM Cortex-M and Cortex-A architecture.
- Knowledge of ARM assembly language.
Would be a plus:
- Knowledge of embedded debug tools and probes (e.g. Lauterbach).
- Knowledge of power management (DVFS, CPUIdle, suspend-to-RAM) in embedded systems.
- Knowledge of HDL (e.g. Verliog, VHDL, etc.).
- Knowledge of the ARM System Control and Management Interface (SCMI) specification.
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