Senior Systems Engineer - Automotive

Posted:
7/7/2026, 1:04:54 PM

Location(s):
Chongqing, China

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
IT & Security ⋅ Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
On-site

Pay:
$62k–$83k/yr

Role Summary:

This position is for a systems engineer in automotive systems engineering and marketing organization of NXP. The new organization targets to make NXP the trusted partner, advisor, and then provider of customer’s vehicle architectures and system innovation. In that position, the talented employee will participate in CoreRide project for production-ready ECU development and/or exciting and innovative projects to prototype new vehicle architecture ideas and create reference designs for NXP’s customers.

Job Responsibility:

  • Responsible for systems and applications software development/test and reference solutions design for automotive applications, like gateway, central computing, domain controller, zonal controller, ECU.
  • Collaborate with NXP global teams to create vehicle system solutions or support new product enablement.
  • Support both China and global customers on NXP automotive products.

Job Qualification:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree of automotive electronics, microelectronics, computer science, EE, software, or other relevant technical major.

5+ years of working experiences in Automotive OEMs, Automotive Tier 1’s, Semiconductors, Automotive SW vendors, or relative industries.

Excellent programming skills in C/C++ and ARM assembly.

Knowledgeable on automotive technology, vehicle EE arch, Linux, AUTOSAR, TSN, security, functional safety.

Knowledgeable on microprocessor or microcontroller architecture.

Good interpersonal communication skills, able to comfortably work with multiple internal teams across global as well as customers.

Good skills in presenting complex technical subjects.

Proactively learner and passions for getting things done.

Good level on oral and written both Chinese and English.

The candidate who can meet one or more criteria as below are strongly preferred:

Good knowledge of Linux internals, Linux device driver, networking, multicore, kernel, virtualization.

Good knowledge of embedded systems, RTOS, device driver, CPU core and instruction set knowledge.

Good knowledge in Ethernet, TSN, TCP/IP, router, switch.

Good knowledge of ECU systems, gateway, CCU, VCU, Inverter, BMS, OBC, etc.

Good knowledge on automotive Energy Distribution, DCDC, eFuse, eSwitch, etc.

Experiences on hardware design


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NXP Semiconductors

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