Senior Principal Power Architect - MCU
NXP Semiconductors · Catania
About this role
NXP Semiconductors is hiring a senior-level Hardware Engineer in the software engineering function based in Catania. The role typically asks for 10+ years of relevant experience. Listed education preference: a master's degree or equivalent.
- Role
- Hardware Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- senior
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Catania
- Experience
- 10+ years
- Education
- Master's degree
- Posted
- May 20, 2026
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Job description
from NXP Semiconductors careersNXP’s Industrial & IoT Edge solutions range from the smallest MCUs to very high-performance processors to provide real-time insights and efficient automation when performance matters most. NXP’s advanced portfolio of edge processing solutions lets developers explore their most innovative ideas with confidence, enabling applications across the autonomous home, industrial automation, and personal electronics
NXP is building new teams in Catania to create high impact microcontrollers (MCU) as part of NXP’s intelligent AI at the Edge. This team will include a wide range of engineering talent from analog to SOC digital design. Full product development local will product world class products at a world class pace.
This team will include all key engineering disciplines in Design, Architecture, Verification, DfT and Physical Design to produce high performance and quality products.
Role Summary:
Define, architect and DC-DC systems for integration in Microcontroller (MCU) products and for MCU based systems
System simulation of DC-DC systems
Quantify block level specifications for implementation
Quantify implementation impairments in overall system performance
Ensure architecture & implementation meet system requirements both pre and post silicon
Your Responsibility:
Work with system architects and marketing to develop power solutions for MCU based products.
Define innovative DC-DC, switcher architectures including buck, buck-boost and boost converters. May also include capacitive converters.
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