Principal EE System Architect - Automotive

Job description

Job Summary:

This role has a primary objective to contribute to a new E/E architecture organization at NXP. The objective of the E/E architecture team is to build expertise at system level within NXP and to engage with the OEM advanced engineering team to offer support on sub-systems where NXP is building expertise. Such sub-systems are leveraging NXP expertise and portfolio in processing, networking, power management, security and safety.

The specific role here is for a systems architect experienced in Architecture investigation who has been involved in the early definition E/E architectural system engineering work with an automotive OEM.

Responsibilities:

• Use E/E architecture systems engineering tools to understand architecture trade offs and how they are impacted by NXP products – e.g. network topologies, functional safety, wake-up times, communication latencies, security, power distribution & management, etc
• Define and assess SDV automotive software architectures and evaluate SW trade‑offs impacting E/E systems – e.g. computation power, functions centralization, middleware, safety & security, etc
• Use this early E/E architecture understanding to influence the definition of new NXP products (processors, power management, communication interfaces)
• Engage with OEMs to define POC studies showing the benefits of NXP products in real vehicle networks
• Work with architecture/simulation tools vendors to make the transition from a simulation world to NXP products easy

• Engage effectively with OEM to build strong technical relationship; positioning NXP as the trusted partner for automotive HW and SW solutions for E/E architecture & understanding the different OEMs vision for future car architecture.
• Collaborate with NXP technical and commercial teams to define and implement an overall solution positioning; with associated collateral

Requirements:

• Experience of E/E architecture definition and development
• Knowledge and experience of tools used within early E/E architecture definition – understanding tradeoffs and key performance metrics of the OEM
• 8 years+ experience in automotive market
• History of engagement with automotive Tier1 and/or OEM
• Experience in software and system solutions that enable car architecture evolution
• Strong business and technical acumen, customer focus/ external orientation
• Excellent communication and influencing skills – written and verbal

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