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# Systems Engineering

- **Company:** NXP
- **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States
- **Salary:** $196,800.0 - $270,600.0
- **Contract:** Internship / Graduate position
- **Skills:** Algorithm Design, Systems Engineering, C++ (Programming Language), Computer Engineering, Data Transmissions, Data Mining, Software Debugging, Logic Synthesis of Circuits, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Python (Programming Language), MATLAB, Machine Learning, Signal Processing, Software Engineering
- **Published:** August 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://nxp.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/San-Jose-Holger-Way/Systems-Engineering_R-10066121

## About the Role

Master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering, foreign equivalent or related field., Position requires knowledge gained via completion of a graduate-level course, internship or related occupation involving:

 1. Signal Processing,

 2. Wireless Communication,

 3. C/C++ and Python,

 4. RFSOC,

 5. Matlab,

 6. Digital Communication,

 7. Communication Systems and Networks,

 8. Artificial Neural Computation, and

 9. Machine learning with FPGA implementation.

## Description

Duties: Perform software engineering duties in furtherance of research and development efforts for NXP's in-house IC and microprocessor products. Draw concepts from wireless communication theory to devise and construct suitable experiments to test performance and identify system deficiencies with respect to physical layer metrics like transmit EVM, spectrum mask, packet error rate, interference rejection, etc. Support the evaluation and debug effort via various cycles of quality assurance all the way through production. Evaluate results, identify root-cause deficiencies, and develop improvements to design. Responsible for developing automation tools and/or software to automate performance evaluation, data extraction, and analysis. Collaborate with digital design team to support PHY layer algorithm design and bit-true verification.


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