Senior Software Product Manager - Embedded & Real-Time Systems (Automotive) (f/m/d)

Senior Software Product Manager – Embedded & Real-Time Systems (Automotive)

Location: Munich, DE, Bucharest, RO, Austin, TX (or flexible NXP location)

Function: Automotive Processors – Senior Software Product Management

Role Overview

We are hiring a Senior Software Product Manager to own the low-level software stack for next-generation automotive real-time processing. You will drive product roadmap, strategy and execution across Real-Time Drivers (RTD), Firmware, Security, and BSP, ensuring alignment from silicon to system integration. This role is critical to enabling system bring-up, software quality, and scalable customer deployment in Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) architectures.

Key Responsibilities

Product Ownership

• •Define, execute, and own the product roadmap for:
• •Low-level real-time software including RTD (drivers), BSP (Board Support Package), RTOS, RTHV(virtualization/isolation)
• •System management (boot, firmware services, PMIC control)
• •Security (secure boot, crypto, key management)

• •Translate OEM, Tier 1, and systems requirements into clear product feature definitions and priorities
• •Balance trade-offs across timeline, quality, performance, safety, security, and scalability

System Bring-Up & Integration

• •Responsible for:
• •Boot and power sequencing
• •Driver and peripheral enablement (CAN, LIN, DDR, PCIe, Ethernet)
• •System firmware, safety and security framework

• •Drive adoption of:
• •AI-assisted tools across SW lifecycle
• •Define and enable AI-driven customer experience on platform

Ensure low-level software enables end-to-end platform bring-up to ensure system-level readiness, not just feature delivery.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• •Serve as the single owner bridging:
• •Software R&D (feature delivery)
• •Applications Engineering (customer enablement, integration)
• •Product & Systems Engineering Teams (platform definition and roadmap)

Drive clear ownership, dependency management, and execution alignment across teams

Execution & Delivery

• •Own delivery across:
• •Pre-silicon bring-up, NPI, customer deployment and maintenance

• •Track and communicate:
• •System readiness
• •Risks and dependencies
• •Execution gaps and mitigation plans

Customer & Ecosystem Engagement

• •Engage with OEMs and Tier 1 partners to understand real-world requirements.
• •Translate customer feedback into product improvements
• •Drive simplification, usability, and reduced complexity to accelerate adoption and design wins
• •Represent low-level SW in customer discussions on bring-up, performance, safety, and security

Qualifications

Required

• •10+ years in embedded software, automotive systems, or related field
• •Strong background in low-level SW:
• •Drivers, bootloaders, firmware, BSP
• •AUTOSAR, RTOS, or Zephyr environments

• •Experience in product management, technical leadership, or system architecture
• •Solid understanding of system bring-up and HW/SW integration challenges

Preferred

• •Experience with automotive SoCs or industrial systems
• •Familiarity with safety (ISO 26262) and security (ISO 21434, HSE)
• •Experience with CI/CD and OTA-based software delivery
• •Experience enabling:
• •AI-assisted development tools
• •AI-driven developer and customer workflows

Customer-facing experience with OEMs or Tier 1s

What Success Looks Like

• •Improved software quality for first-time success rate
• •Reduced customer escalations
• •Strong alignment across SW R&D, Applications, and Product teams
• •Faster customer enablement and NPI execution
• •Reliable system-level bring-up readiness for new platforms

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