Within NXP Research the sector Design Methods and Solutions (DMS) supports NXPs strategy by performing scientific and industrial research on methods and tools with the objective to improve design efficiency and product quality. The technical scope of the sector program includes system verification and modeling, RF-EM simulation and modeling, reliability simulation, DSM extraction, signal/power integrity, power estimation, hardware-software co-design, compiler technology, and, process and design related test.

Group Description
The Compiler Solutions group in DMS is a customer driven group that supports NXP business lines as well as internal and external application programmers by delivering a high quality software development environment. As our main activity we develop and maintain the compiler tool chain for the NXP VLIW (very long instruction word) TriMedia family of embedded media processors. This software development environment has been used for the creation of featured products and consists of an optimizing compiler, a debugger, a simulator and performance evaluation tools.

Job Description
As a senior compiler engineer you will be a member in an existing team of compiler architects and developers. In this role you will have the responsibility to maintain and innovate the existing VLIW compilation chain. You will also be involved in the definition of the strategic long-term planning to evolve the existing compilation chain towards future digital media platforms of NXP Semiconductors.

Having worked with large code bases and delivering industry quality code to a user base as well as experience with the open source code bases of GCC and Eclipse are a pre. Next to these skills excellent communication skills, fluency in English, accuracy, flexibility and customer friendliness are required.

If you are convinced that you are the right person for this function, even though you do not meet all requirements or you have a slightly more junior profile feel free to send your resume to convince us.