This role is a technical leader that bridges between HW and SW to ensure world-class solutions for our customers. This role resides and works alongside the HW team to reuse and develop low level drivers and application to be a bridge to central SW team. Responsible for ensuring high quality HW drivers to take full advantage of HW features and make them available via the SDK to customers (internal and external). This role will drive HW-SW to ensure consistency, early verification of drivers, combined use-cases and ROM features in simulation and in emulation before silicon tape out. The role will also ensure that product verification (SW + HW teams) and all validation teams are enabled with the same drivers for validation of the product.

Job Responsibility:
- Technical lead for given SOC products in developing low‑level IP firmware (device drivers) for MCU platforms, ensuring high quality and reusability. Work closely with central SW teams to maximize reuse, consistency and ensure HW compatibility.




- Architect and deliver comprehensive IP firmware/driver solutions that support all phases of the lifecycle—RTL verification, virtual simulation, SoC verification, post‑silicon validation, and SDK integration
- Partner with pre‑silicon and post‑silicon teams to align HAL/SDK development with IP interface requirements and features.
- Work closely with HW, SW architects and SOC designers to initiate firmware development in parallel with hardware development.
- Review hardware register definitions and documentation early and regularly to remove disconnects and provide actionable feedback to improve software usability and long‑term maintainability. This role owns any gap closure.
- Establish and maintain backward‑compatible software interfaces as hardware IP evolves across products. Ensure linkage with HW IP and central SW team.
- Create architectural frameworks that promote consistency and scalability of driver implementations.
- Define best practices for delivering enablemen

📌 Senior Principal HW/SW Co-Design Lead (Pune)
🏢 NXP Semiconductors
📍 Pune