Senior Systems Applications Engineer
Work on NXP's i.MX application processor portfolio and advanced DDR memory subsystems including LPDDR5/5x and DDR5.
Originally posted 29 October 2026 by the employer.
About the role
As a Senior Systems Applications Engineer at NXP Semiconductors, you will serve as a technical expert for i.MX processors, DDR memory technologies, and system architecture. You will support customer design-in, board bring-up, and complex system-level debug spanning LPDDR4/4X/5/5x, DDR5, and emerging LPDDR6 architectures.
What you'll do
- Support strategic customers through design-in, board bring-up, production ramp, and complex system-level debug across hardware and software domains.
- Work with memory technologies including LPDDR4/4X, LPDDR5/5x, DDR5, and LPDDR6, collaborating with memory vendors and ecosystem partners to evaluate future memory architectures.
- Analyze DDR controller, PHY, and high-speed interface behavior to debug performance, reliability, power, boot, interoperability, and memory subsystem issues.
- Support silicon bring-up, characterization, and root-cause analysis of customer and NPI issues.
- Conduct architecture, schematic, and PCB layout reviews for customers.
- Develop reference designs, design guidelines, application notes, and technical training materials.
What you'll need
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience with embedded SoCs or application processors.
- Knowledge of DDR memory technologies including LPDDR4X, LPDDR5/5x, DDR5, memory controllers, and PHY architectures.
- Experience with DDR bring-up, training, margin analysis, validation, and debug.
- Experience reviewing high-speed schematics and PCB layouts.
- Understanding of hardware/software interactions within embedded systems.
- Experience with Linux, U-Boot, device drivers, and low-level firmware development with proficiency in C programming.
- Experience using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG debuggers, protocol analyzers, and related debug tools.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting MPU or application processor customers.
- Experience with LPDDR6, DDR5, advanced memory architectures, or memory subsystem design.
- Experience working directly with memory suppliers and ecosystem partners.
- Familiarity with PCIe, UFS, eMMC, Ethernet, USB, MIPI, and other high-speed interfaces.
- Knowledge of signal integrity, power integrity, and system performance optimization.
- Experience influencing SoC architecture, product definition, or platform strategy.
- Familiarity with AI/ML, multimedia, graphics, industrial, automotive, networking, or edge computing applications.
Skills: DDR, LPDDR5, design-in, bring-up, applications engineer
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This role has been open 0 days — well below the 80-day median for Applications FAE roles.
Applications FAE · Memory Design
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Open roles in category
26
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Median days open
80 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
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| Metric | NXP Semiconductors | All employers we track in this specialty (26 roles · 9 employers) |
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| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 26 |
| Median days open | 0 d | 80 d (−80 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | — |
Skills observed across this category: DDR, LPDDR5, design-in, bring-up, applications engineer
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 7 open roles · median 70 d
- Teradyne · 5 open roles · median 91 d
- SK Hynix America · 4 open roles · median 114 d
- Synopsys · 3 open roles · median 30 d
- Samsung Semiconductor · 2 open roles · median 165 d
- Silicon Motion · 2 open roles · median 65 d
How we counted: 26 open Applications FAE (Memory Design) roles from 9 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 29 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.