Senior Systems Engineer – Board Management Controller (BMC)

About the role

NXP is looking for an experienced Senior Systems Engineer to lead the development and deployment of next‑generation Board Management Controller (BMC) solutions for datacenter and infrastructure applications. You will work on OpenBMC enablement, server platform integration, and customer support across NXP processor‑based platforms.

Key responsibilities

• Develop, integrate, and validate OpenBMC software on NXP platforms.
• Enable and support industry‑standard management protocols such as Redfish, IPMI, MCTP, and PLDM.
• Perform hardware and software bring‑up of BMC reference platforms and validate server management functions (power control, thermal monitoring, sensor management, event logging, firmware updates).
• Support host interfaces and sideband communication protocols including PCIe, USB, Ethernet, NC‑SI, I²C, I3C, SMBus, UART, and GPIO.
• Collaborate with ODMs, OEMs, and end customers for design‑in activities and issue resolution.
• Develop automation and regression test frameworks for platform validation.
• Create technical documentation, application notes, validation reports, and integration guides.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline.
• 5–10 years of experience in embedded systems, Linux platform development, or server management solutions.
• Strong programming skills in C/C++ and hands‑on experience with Embedded Linux development, Linux BSPs, and device drivers.
• Familiarity with Yocto‑based Linux distributions and collaborative development using Git.

Required skills

• OpenBMC development
• Redfish, IPMI, MCTP, PLDM protocols
• Embedded Linux, Yocto, Linux BSP, device drivers
• C/C++ programming
• Git version control
• Hardware/software bring‑up and system‑level debugging
• Security technologies such as Secure Boot and TPM
• Interface protocols: Ethernet, PCIe, USB, I²C, I3C, SMBus, UART, GPIO