Job Description

Job Summary:

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Develop, test, and support ROM bootloader application development for NXP's i.MX, RT, and MCX embedded systems.

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Key Challenges:

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- Develop boot ROM code in the pre-silicon platform development environments
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- Test boot ROM code to meet the requirements criteria and deliver code coverage report in the pre-silicon platforms
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- Lead ROM project from requirements phase to design, implement, validate, and deliver ROM binary for fabrication
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- Anticipate delays in availability of hardware functionality, pre-silicon platform stability and rom code readiness, gaps in resources, suggest mitigation options and stay on top of the schedule
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Cross functional aspects:

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- Work with NXP SoC architecture, design, verification, and emulation teams to understand rom dependencies on design, RTL, and Emulation platforms
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- Work with NXP Marketing, Applications Engineering, Software, and other teams in ensuring customer requirements are well captured for booting
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- Collaborate with NXP Secure Technology team towards enabling security protection for the device in ensuring authorized use of the device throughout its lifecycle phases
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Job Qualifications:

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Experience required: 4 to 10 years

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- Proficiency with C-programming on embedded systems
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- Experience with ARM Cortex-M and Cortex-A architecture
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- Knowledge of ARM assembly language
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- Proficiency with ARM toolchain and other tool vendor toolchains like IAR




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- Proficiency with using tools (e.g. GIT, JIRA, make, etc.) for embedded software development
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- Knowledge of embedded debug tools and probes (e.g. Lauterbach, J-Link)
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- Experience in developing secure, hardened bare-metal software solutions, bootloader application targeted for ROM or OTP memories
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- Experience in Storage devices, UFS (Universal Flash Storage), SPI NOR, eMMC, SD, Flash NAND, USB, etc., that are generally used as boot device
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- Experience with pre-silicon emulators and associated waveform capture/analysis to develop/debug firmware (Zebu, RTL Simulations, FPGA, QEMU, Renode, VDK, Veloce, palladium, etc.,.)
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Recommended Skills:

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- Experience with RISC-V architecture and toolchains
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- Proficiency with RUST programming on embedded systems
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- Working knowledge of HDL (e.g. Verliog, System Verilog, VHDL, etc.)
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- Experience using static code analysis tools (e.g. Coverity, gcov, cppcheck, lint)
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- Knowledge of i.MX architectural and peripherals (CCM, GPC, SRC, IOMUX, LPUART, LPI2C, temperature sensor)
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- Experience with leveraging NXP MCU SDK as a basis for embedded software projects
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- Experience porting embedded software projects to NXP development boards
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- Knowledge of Function Safety (IEC61508, ISO26262) standards and software compliance
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- Knowledge of Cybersecurity (ISO21434) standards and software compliance
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📌 BOOT ROM Developer (Noida)
🏢 NXP Semiconductors
📍 Noida