BOOT ROM Developer

Job Summary:

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

Key Challenges:

• Develop boot ROM code in the pre-silicon platform development environments
• Test boot ROM code to meet the requirements criteria and deliver code coverage report in the pre-silicon platforms
• Lead ROM project from requirements phase to design, implement, validate, and deliver ROM binary for fabrication
• 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

Cross functional aspects:

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

Job Qualifications:

Experience: 4 to 10 years

• Proficiency with C-programming on embedded systems
• Experience with ARM Cortex-M and Cortex-A architecture
• Knowledge of ARM assembly language
• Proficiency with ARM toolchain and other tool vendor toolchains like IAR
• Proficiency with using tools (e.g. GIT, JIRA, make, etc.) for embedded software development
• Knowledge of embedded debug tools and probes (e.g. Lauterbach, J-Link)
• Experience in developing secure, hardened bare-metal software solutions, bootloader application targeted for ROM or OTP memories
• Experience in Storage devices, UFS (Universal Flash Storage), SPI NOR, eMMC, SD, Flash NAND, USB, etc., that are generally used as boot device
• Experience with pre-silicon emulators and associated waveform capture/analysis to develop/debug firmware (Zebu, RTL Simulations, FPGA, QEMU, Renode, VDK, Veloce, palladium, etc.,.)

Recommended Skills:

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