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Location: Noida
Company: NXP Semiconductors
Key Responsibilities
Circuit Design & Architecture
- Understand technical requirements and contribute to board-level architecture and component selection.
- Design analog, digital, power-supply, clock, reset, boot-configuration, and interface circuits.
- Develop and review schematics for microcontroller-, microprocessor-, or SoC-based hardware.
- Read and interpret component datasheets, reference manuals, design guidelines, and interface specifications.
PCB Implementation
- Define PCB placement, routing, stack-up, grounding, impedance, and power-distribution requirements.
- Coordinate with PCB layout engineers and participate in schematic and layout reviews.
- Apply design-for-manufacturing, design-for-test, reliability, and component-derating guidelines.
- Maintain design data in PDM/PLM or version-control systems; support ECOs and NPI activities.
Bring-Up & Debug
- Prepare board bring-up plans and perform initial power, clock, reset, boot, and interface validation.
- Debug board-level issues using schematics, PCB files, measurements, firmware logs, and component documentation.
- Use laboratory equipment including oscilloscopes, DMMs, logic analyzers, programmable power supplies, electronic loads, protocol analyzers, and JTAG/boundary-scan debug tools.
Test & Validation
- Develop and execute functional, electrical, interface, power, thermal, and margin test procedures.
- Document test setups, measurements, observations, failures, root causes, and corrective actions.
- Develop and execute functional, electrical, interface, power, thermal, and margin test procedures.
- Document test setups, measurements, observations, failures, root causes, and corrective actions.
- Leverage basic scripting (Python or similar) for test automation, data logging, or measurement analysis.· Leverage basic scripting (Python or similar) for test automation, data logging, or measurement analysis.
EMI/EMC & Compliance
- Support EMI/EMC design reviews covering grounding, shielding, filtering, return paths, and interface protection.
- Participate in pre-compliance and certification testing (radiated/conducted emissions, immunity, ESD, electrical safety, environmental compliance).
- Work with compliance laboratories and internal teams to investigate certification failures and validate corrective actions.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Project Support
- Collaborate with PCB layout, firmware, software, mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, and compliance teams.
- Support prototype builds, component replacements, board revisions, and sustaining-engineering activities.
- Provide effort estimates, proactively flag design risks and component availability issues, and communicate technical status to the project lead.
Required Experience and Skills
- 3-5 years of relevant experience in board-level hardware design, bring-up, testing, or validation.
- Hands-on experience designing and debugging analog and digital electronic circuits.
- Experience with microcontrollers, processors, SoCs, memories, PMICs, voltage regulators, clock devices, and standard board-level peripherals.
- Practical experience in schematic capture and PCB design review using tools such as Cadence OrCAD/Allegro, or equivalent.
- Understanding of multilayer PCB design: grounding, return paths, controlled impedance, decoupling, and power distribution.
- Experience bringing up prototype boards and troubleshooting power, clock, reset, boot, memory, and interface-related issues.
- Working knowledge of commonly used interfaces: UART, I2C, SPI, USB, Ethernet, CAN, JTAG, SD/eMMC, SMBus, or PMBus.
- Working familiarity with multiple high-speed interface (PCIe, DDR4/5, LPDDR, high-speed USB, or SerDes); ability to interpret SI simulation results and apply termination/routing guidelines.
- Experience using laboratory equipment: oscilloscopes, DMMs, logic analysers, programmable power supplies, electronic loads, protocol analysers, and JTAG/boundary-scan debug tools.
- Working understanding of signal integrity, power integrity, transmission-line effects, termination, crosstalk, and timing.
- Practical understanding of EMI/EMC design practices: filtering, shielding, grounding, ESD protection, and noise reduction.
- Exposure to EMI/EMC pre-compliance or certification testing; ability to support debugging.
- Familiarity with certification standards such as CISPR, IEC, FCC, CE, automotive, or industry-specific requirements (expertise in all standards is not expected).
- Ability to prepare clear design documents, test procedures, validation reports, and failure-analysis reports.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, communication(written/Oral) , and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Preferred Experience
- Education: Bachelor’s/master’s degree in Electronics/Electrical Engineering or equivalent
- Experience with embedded, automotive, industrial, consumer, networking, or semiconductor evaluation hardware.
- Basic scripting ability (Python, MATLAB, or similar) for test automation, data logging, or measurement analysis.
- Exposure to SPICE simulation or signal/power integrity analysis tools.
- Experience supporting products through prototype, validation, certification, and production stages.
- Familiarity with PCB fabrication, assembly, manufacturing test, and component qualification.
- Exposure to environmental and reliability testing: temperature, vibration, thermal cycling, or humidity.
- Experience working with external design partners, PCB manufacturers, test laboratories, or component suppliers.
Expected Level of Ownership
Within HWS-CC, this engineer will be expected to:
- Independently design and validate assigned circuit blocks.
- Coordinate PCB implementation for assigned portions of the design.
- Bring up and debug prototype hardware with limited supervision.
- Prepare and execute test plans for assigned functions and interfaces.
- Support EMI/EMC investigation and certification activities as part of a larger engineering team.
- Proactively flag design risks, schedule impacts, and component availability issues before they become blockers.
- Escalate architecture, high-speed design, safety, and complex compliance issues to senior technical experts.
- Maintain accurate design, test, and issue-tracking documentation.
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