The role is part of NXP’s Chief Technology Office (CTO) organization, within the SoC IC Security Engineering Team, which drives innovation and supports Business Units in creating secure products. The engineer will manage security requirements, assess solutions, and collaborate with customers and development teams to embed robust security mechanisms into hardware and firmware.
Responsibilities
- Manage security requirements by defining and linking security mechanisms to functional requirements, including innovative security mechanisms in hardware, firmware, etc.
- Assess and review security solutions implementations.
- Propose secure hardware and software IP, considering power, area, and performance constraints.
- Coordinate and conduct pre‑silicon and post‑silicon vulnerability analysis (VA) or risk assessments of hardware security architectures.
- Investigate the root cause of security defects.
- Interface with customers, evaluation labs, and product development teams.
- Work with the team to innovate solutions to security‑related problems.
- Stay up to date with best practices and developments in the SoC/IC security industry.
- Provide advice and training to the development team on security design, implementation, integration, and verification.
- Support security certification and the application of the NXP Security Maturity Process.
Requirements
- Good knowledge of SoC/IC architectures of embedded devices.
- Good knowledge in the design and development of embedded secure systems.
- Understanding of embedded firmware/software and its interaction with hardware.
- Strong interest in security and ability to learn quickly.
- Good knowledge in Hardware Description Languages (System Verilog, VHDL), synthesis, schematics and layout.
- Ability to educate and share knowledge with colleagues.
- Strong communicator; team player who gets results.
- Conscious and reliable way of working.
Nice to have
- BSEE or MSEE or PhD preferred in Security Engineering or Electronic Engineering.
- Strong background in security and understanding of security concepts and principles, including cryptography, Fault Injection and Side‑Channel Attacks.
- Experience in designing and developing embedded secure system architectures and/or security‑related IP.
- Knowledge of security certification schemes (e.g., Common Criteria, SESIP, FIPS, OSCCA) and international security standards (e.g., ISO21434, IEC62443).
- Being flexible and adaptable.
Benefits
- Market‑competitive compensation according to benchmarking of the electronic and semiconductor industry.
- Employment Group V after 6 years under the Austrian collective bargaining agreement (CBA).
- Attractive employee benefits such as home office, flexible working time, meal benefits and more.
Additional details
- The successful candidate may/will be responsible for security‑related tasks and may be involved in security certifications.
- Due to the Austrian Equal Treatment Act, the position is graded in Employment Group V after 6 years.
- More information about NXP in Austria is available.
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