Applications / Software Engineer

We’re looking for a hands‐on software engineer who enjoys debugging, system thinking, and solving real customer problems. This role sits inside the Applications team, working closely with senior engineers to help customers integrate our MPU products into their systems. Automotive industry experience is useful but absolutely not required. What matters most is strong software fundamentals, curiosity, and a willingness to dive deep. This is a great fit for someone with early‐career experience who wants to broaden into low‐level software, Linux systems, and HW/SW interaction.

Key Responsibilities

• Software‐Focused Technical Work
  • Assist in developing sample code, demo applications, and small proof‐of‐concepts that help customers adopt features of S32‐family MPUs.
  • Reproduce customer issues, collect logs, isolate failure points, and help root‐cause problems across bootloaders, drivers, multi‐core initialization, and memory/interconnect subsystems.
  • Support creation and maintenance of internal tools, scripts, and utilities that accelerate debug and validation workflows.
• Customer‐Oriented Engineering Support
  • Join customer calls together with senior engineers; gradually take on more direct interaction as confidence grows.
  • Help customers integrate NXP software components into their distributions, advising on configuration, patches, and debugging approaches.
  • Perform board‐level bring‐up tasks guided by senior staff (serial console, boot diagnostics, basic power‐on validation, etc.).
• Cross‐Team Collaboration & Learning
  • Engage with internal silicon, software, validation, and systems teams to track, escalate, or reproduce issues in‐house.
  • Contribute to internal documentation, debug reports, and learning materials for both the team and customers.
  • Rapidly grow competence in multi‐core Linux, high‐speed interfaces (PCIe/Ethernet), and embedded debug methodologies.

What You Bring

• Must‐Have Basics
  • 2–3 years of professional software experience — ideally in systems programming, embedded Linux, or platform bring‐up.
  • Strong debugging mindset: ability to read logs, trace code paths, form hypotheses, and test assumptions.
  • Comfortable writing C, C++, Python, or similar for debugging, scripting, and integration tasks.
  • Curiosity and willingness to learn multi‐core systems, memory architecture, interrupt routing, and performance analysis.
• Nice to Have / Bonus
  • Exposure to bootloaders (U‐Boot preferred), device tree tuning, or kernel driver basics.
  • Familiarity with Yocto or similar build systems.
  • Any automotive experience (standards, ECUs, embedded platforms) is helpful but not required.
  • Interest in hardware‐aware software engineering: timing, resource constraints, and concurrency across multiple cores.

Contract Type: This role is offered as a full‐time position with a permanent contract, providing long‐term stability and room for growth.

Development Opportunities: We believe that growing our people is key to growing our business. That’s why we offer a mix of online and offline learning opportunities to help you sharpen both your technical and soft skills.

Compensation Summary: Attractive market salary is accompanied by the bonus plan (payment twice a year), long-term incentive plan and dividends processing, opportunity to purchase company shares at a 15% discount, lunch allowance, additional vacation days, sickness support, sick days, weekend bank holiday recovery days, pension and well-being support, flexible work hours, home office, team-buildings, and much more. Salaries are being reviewed each year, and market changes are closely observed.

We believe in providing a holistic and supportive work environment, and we would be happy to share more details during our face-to-face discussions.

Our Office: Rožnov: A place with history and heart. A modern office with fresh design, and an in-house cafeteria. We love the relaxed atmosphere of the town and the wide selection of great restaurants, perfect for enjoying lunch with colleagues.

Hiring Process: Applying is quick and easy – just fill out the online form and upload your CV. If your profile matches, you’ll have a short phone or video call with our technical team. If successful, you’ll get a chance to ask HR anything you need. We respond fast — unless we’re on vacation.

And More... Life at NXP: Work is important, but so is everything around it. We start our days with free coffee and friendly chats. You can look forward to fresh fruit days, ice cream breaks, and even bake fairs.

What’s next: Candidates are invited to apply on our career page with the resume and motivation letter in English for one or several open jobs at the same time. The candidate may submit the CV for more than 1 open position. At the application stage, all candidates should have a valid visa and work permit to work in Czech Republic. If you’re excited about this opportunity, we kindly invite you to apply!

Please note: The successful candidate may/will be responsible for security related tasks. The assignment may/will be in scope of security certifications, therefore a conscious and reliable way of working is necessary.