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Principal Engineer

NXP Semiconductors


Job Location:

Austin, TX - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 18 August 2026 (15 days ago)
Application Deadline: 15 November 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Description:

Duties: Perform semiconductor engineering design development and testing for firm products and devices in conjunction with product development for the electronic communications industry. Work on a wide range of SoCs spanning different process technologies and market segments to produce a best-in-class combination of power performance and thermal behavior. Responsible for device to architecture level optimizations as well as hardware/software co-design. Design a wide-range of SoC solutions from very cost-sensitive low power devices to highly integrated high-performance devices with world-wide network of design centers. Research design and develop forward looking methodologies novel infrastructures and architectures for system resource control and holistic energy management. Identify new techniques in areas for Energy reduction for CPU/GPU/Camera/DDR/ML accelerators both at core and SoC level. Experiment with new EDA tools and provide necessary automation to simplify system tradeoff analysis. Collaborate with performance thermal and system teams in system-level analysis of workloads and use-cases to identify opportunities of energy optimization. Participate in efforts to develop and prototype new system solutions and approaches.

Qualifications:

Masters degree in Electrical Engineering Electronics Engineering Computer Engineering foreign equivalent or related field.

Five (5) years of experience in job offered Staff Design Engineer or related occupation.

Required skills:

Position requires five (5) years of experience in:

1. Understanding of Models (NLDM AOCV CCS ECSM LVF);

2. Cadence IC Design Suite Innovus Synopsys PrimeTime;

3. TCL Perl

4. Time and test chip blocks

5. Physical Design;

6. Synthesis;

7. Physical Verification;

8. Place and route; and

9. Floorplan.

Salary: $187272 per year

More information about NXP in the United States...

NXP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer regardless of age color national origin race religion creed gender sex sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression marital status status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local addition NXP will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.

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Required Experience:

Staff IC


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