Principal Automotive Applications Engineer

The Principal Engineer plays a key technical and customer-facing role within the Automotive MPU Applications team. This position focuses on guiding customers through complex bring-up, integration, and problem-solving activities across both hardware and software domains. The role requires a strong software background, particularly in Linux-based, multi-core embedded environments - along with the seniority to influence internal teams and customer engineering groups., * Act as a primary technical interface to automotive customers, providing high-quality support across the full product lifecycle.

• Diagnose and resolve complex HW/SW integration issues on multi-core MPU platforms, including boot, drivers, memory subsystems, interconnects, and performance bottlenecks.
• Support customer platform development through debug sessions, design reviews, architectural guidance, and best-practice recommendations.
• Drive cross-functional collaboration with silicon design, validation, systems, and software teams to resolve customer blockers and feed insights back into product development.
• Contribute to application notes, reference designs, training materials, and internal/external documentation.
• Mentor junior engineers and help shape technical direction within the Applications team.

Do you have experience in Virtualization?, * Deep expertise in embedded Linux (kernel, drivers, Yocto, debugging).

• Strong analytical skills for HW/SW system-level problem solving.
• Hands-on experience with multi-core SoCs, high-speed interfaces, and low-level software.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort interacting directly with customers.
• Ability to lead complex issues to closure across distributed teams.

Nice to Have / Additional Value

• Familiarity with automotive software processes
• Experience with bootloaders, board bring-up, performance analysis, or virtualization.
• Knowledge of automotive system architectures (zonal compute, ADAS/IVI).