Principal Digital Design Engineer, Automotive

Our Team

The SERDES Networking Solutions (SNS) team within NXP develops transceivers for in‑vehicle networking (IVN) with data rates from 2 Gbs to 16 Gpbs. These transceivers deploy sophisticated analog and digital design to provide video, audio, control and Ethernet connectivity within the vehicle.

Your role

We are looking for a Principal Digital Design Engineer to join our team of engineers who define and implement new capabilities for our transceivers.

Your Responsibilities

• Lead team of engineers to design, implement and support in‑vehicle networking devices as part of NXP’s Automotive product line.
• Manage day‑to‑day performance of junior engineering team members.
• Define block requirements and architecture, optimizing for area, power and timing, implementing functional safety requirements, and coordinating with verification and validation teams to comply with automotive design processes.
• Documentation – Create robust design documentation to clearly communicate design intent to team members.
• Implementation – Implement design intent in SystemVerilog or Chisel.
• Collaboration – Work closely with Architecture, digital and analog design, DV and validation teams to ensure timely delivery of quality products.

Your profile

• B.S./M.S. Electrical/Computer Engineering (or similar degrees).
• Experience as a chip lead, architect or subsystem lead in leading digital design teams to meet design parameters.
• Experience in silicon design, including synthesis, static timing closure, and DFT.
• Fluent in SystemVerilog or VHDL and an object‑oriented software language.
• Expertise desired in Ethernet networking, automotive design processes, embedded ARM or RISC‑V processors, and Chisel.
• Hands‑on experience in debug and silicon bringup.