NXP: What’s The Best Advice You’ve Ever Heard? All the while, she never made her family feel like a lower priority. At 35, she decided to go back to college and she studied and became a professor of education. She took time off to have children and build a family.
I want to be able to share my experience with other women so that they can stay at work. It’s one of the areas where I want to help women as much as possible so, yes, in this regard, I would say I am a role model. We don’t get enough women out of college who stay on in their later years. NJ: After 30 years in the industry, I have noticed that retention of women is an issue. NXP: Do You Consider Yourself a Role Model? You don’t see enough women role models at work who have done that, who have set the example.
I had to make decisions on plans for family and career, how to manage both at the same time and how to balance both properly. So, I had to think outside the box, past my surroundings. Women who were good at math and science were generally steered toward medicine-engineering wasn’t the obvious path for women.
NJ: I grew up in conservative India, in a small town near Bangalore, and I experienced some gender bias especially in my early years. NXP: As a Woman Engineer in a Senior Role, Have You Experienced Bias in Your Career? A good leader helps both sides to work together, balancing humanity with an understanding of emotion and technology. Engineers often forget about the human aspect of things, focusing solely on the technology. Good leaders need to be able to grasp the technologies and methodologies we deal with, and they need to be able to build human relationships. We need leaders who understand complex products and engineers who understand complex people. NXP: What’s The Secret to Being a Good Leader in a Modern Tech Company? And we’re doing it, not losing speed, so it’s working.
We’re working to streamline processes and methodologies, and to do this we need to address stress points and keep execution on track, which can be like changing a wheel while driving down the highway at full speed. NJ: MCU/MPU has global teams with operations in more than 10 locations spread across multiple time zones. NXP: What Successes or Challenges Have You Had So Far? Along with my team, I will be building the team to scale, so we can build these system on chips (SoCs) with maximum efficiency, with a goal of meeting all targets with maximum quality every time. Namratha Jaisimha: I’m leading over 600 people, multiple functions, each with organization goals, technology goals, efficiency goals and cultural improvements.
Namratha Jaisimha Vice President - Design, Verification and Validation at NXP Semiconductors NXP: Namratha, Tell About Your Job as VP of V&V and RTL/DFT