Senior Systems Applications Engineer (DDR/i.MX)

Location: Austin (Oakhill, Office), United States of America

Company

hirify.global develops i.MX application processors, memory technologies, and embedded computing platforms for industrial, automotive, IoT, AI, networking, and consumer markets.

What you will do

• Serve as a technical expert for i.MX processors, DDR memory technologies, and system architecture.
• Support customer design-in, board bring-up, production ramp, silicon bring-up, characterization, and complex system-level debug.
• Analyze performance, reliability, power, boot, interoperability, DDR controller, PHY, and high-speed interface behavior.
• Collaborate with customers, memory suppliers, ecosystem partners, silicon architects, software teams, and product organizations on current and emerging memory architectures.
• Conduct architecture, schematic, and design reviews and create reference designs, design guidelines, application notes, and technical training materials.
• Influence future processor and memory subsystem roadmaps and advise customers bringing next-generation products to market.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience with embedded SoCs or application processors.
• Strong 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, with a strong understanding of hardware/software interactions in embedded systems.
• Experience with Linux, U-Boot, device drivers, low-level firmware development, and proficiency in C programming.
• Experience using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, JTAG debuggers, protocol analyzers, and related debug tools.
• Strong customer-facing communication and technical problem-solving skills.

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.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with i.MX processors powering next-generation edge devices.
• Collaborate with experts across NXP’s global processor and memory organizations.
• Engage directly with innovative technology companies and influence products from concept through customer deployment.
• Work onsite in Austin, Texas, as part of the Microprocessor Systems Engineering team.