What are the responsibilities and job description for the Automotive Product Engineer - Entry Level position at NXP Semiconductors?
Job Summary
Automotive Product Engineering position responsible for product ownership from pre-silicon through production launch and industrialization phases.
NXP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, NXP will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.
Automotive Product Engineering position responsible for product ownership from pre-silicon through production launch and industrialization phases.
- Works together with test and design leads to ensure product compliance. Follows up to ensure production test coverage is consistent with the documented compliance.
- Work across disciplines (wafer fab, assembly, probe, and test) to ensure new products will meet automotive cost and quality requirements.
- Owns product characterization efforts and all data analysis confirming specification compliance and establishing optimal limits for Automatic Test Equipment prior to releasing products into manufacturing.
- Ensures correlation between the ATE test results and the bench validation results.
- Works together with test and quality leads to ensure products will meet automotive reliability requirements.
- Executes product qualification per plan. Track and test all read points and drive corrective actions as needed.
- Capable to drive failure analysis and diagnosis of qualification issues, yield issues and customer returns.
- Provides engineering disposition based on bin limits, fab parametric correlation, and other relevant data to ensure the highest quality at the lowest cost.
- Drives and manages volume ramp working together with the manufacturing teams to ensure a successful ramp.
- Drives and prepares training to ensure sustaining engineers can handle daily production execution and retain required quality/cost.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering (Dec 2025-May 2026 grads considered)
- UP to 2 years work experience, including internships
- Self-motivated to learn and contribute in global team environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Quality first mindset
- Statistical analysis skills
- Project management skills
- ATE - Teradyne Ultraflex
NXP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, NXP will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.