NXP Semiconductors

Senior IP Project Engineer

NXP Semiconductors$120K — $150K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • BSEE required; MSEE preferred; 7+ years of related experience
  • Solid understanding of IP development processes and project execution leadership
  • Familiarity with protocols such as AHB/AMBA and various memory types
  • Proven experience leading cross-functional teams with ownership of schedules and risks
  • Strong planning skills with proficiency in Microsoft Project, Jira, Confluence, Power BI, and Excel
  • In-depth knowledge of semiconductor development lifecycle and design verification
  • Experience in RTL design flow and chip assembly, including signoff tools.

Responsibilities

  • Own execution and delivery of IP and subsystem milestones from architecture through release
  • Define development phases, schedules, and quality expectations
  • Coordinate efforts across architecture, design, verification, and integration teams
  • Identify risks and escalate critical issues affecting project execution
  • Lead technical reviews and ensure follow-through on action items
  • Align specifications and requirements with relevant stakeholders
  • Support release readiness and drive issues to resolution.

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment
  • Opportunity to collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams
  • Professional development and training programs available
  • Engaging work culture with focus on innovation and creativity
Full Job Description

Job Title: Senior IP Project Engineer

Primary Location: Austin, Texas

Job Responsibility:

In this role, you will work closely with architects, designers, verification engineers, and integration teams to drive execution and delivery of complex IP and subsystem development.

  • Own end-to-end execution and delivery of IP and subsystem milestones from architecture through release

  • Define development phases, schedules, milestones, dependencies, and quality expectations with architects and engineering leads

  • Coordinate execution across architecture, design, verification, validation, software, and SoC integration teams

  • Identify risks early, drive resolution, and escalate critical issues that threaten execution, quality, or release commitments

  • Lead technical reviews and execution checkpoints with clear status, actions, and follow-through

  • Drive alignment on specifications, interfaces, release content, and handoff requirements

  • Drive priority and trade-off discussions within IP scope

  • Resolve interface issues, integration dependencies, and execution trade-offs with internal and external stakeholders

  • Support release readiness, signoff reviews, and integration milestones by driving issues to closure

  • Improve execution visibility through data collection, milestone tracking, risk registers, and engineering metrics

Job Qualification:

  • BSEE required; MSEE preferred with 7+ years of industry related experience

  • Good understanding of IP development process and methodology with technical depth and project execution leadership

  • Experience in protocols like AHB/AMBA, Memory (ROM, RAM, Flash, LPDDR/DDR3/4) and memory controllers a plus.

  • Experience driving execution across multidisciplinary teams, with ownership of plans, schedules, dependencies, risks, and tracking

  • Strong planning skills and hands-on use of Microsoft Project, Jira, Confluence, Power BI, and Excel for scheduling, tracking, risk management, and data collection

  • Good understanding of semiconductor development lifecycle, design and verification methods, and integration dependencies

  • Experience in all aspects of RTL design flow fromSpecification/Micro-architecturedefinition to design and verification, Timing Analysis, DFT and Implementation a plus

  • Good understanding on Chip Assembly, IP Integration, RTL signoff tools and CDC/RDC/Lint/Synthesis.

  • Able to work effectively with global teams; self-motivated to solve problems and manage deliverables

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

  • Excellent leadership and negotiation skills

About NXP Semiconductors

NXP Semiconductors N.V. is a Dutch semiconductor manufacturer with headquarters in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The company employs approximately 31,000 people in more than 35 countries, including 11,200 engineers in 33 countries. NXP reported revenue of $8.88 billion in 2020. The company's products are used in a wide range of automotive, identification, wireless infrastructure, lighting, industrial, mobile, consumer and computing applications. NXP is the co-inventor of near field communication (NFC) technology along with Sony and supplies NFC chip sets that enable mobile payments, as well as secure access to cars and buildings.
Learn more about NXP Semiconductors
Size
31,000 employees
Market Cap
$39.8 billion
Industry
Net Income
$52 million
Founded
1953
5 Year Trend
+3.1%
Revenue
$8.6 billion
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