Embedded Platform & Bring-Up Engineer

NXP Semiconductors enable secure connections and infrastructure for a smarter world, advancing solutions that make lives easier, better and safer. As the world leader in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications, we are driving innovation in secure connected vehicles, end-to-end security & privacy and smart connected solutions markets.

Join one of the largest industrial security teams and build technology that protects real devices, worldwide.

At NXP’s Competence Center Crypto & Security, we design, build, and deliver end-to-end security — from innovation to architecture to products in the field.

If you’re a security engineer who wants impact, on real life security solutions, we’d love to hear from you.

Owing to the success of our business our department is growing. We are looking for an outstanding Embedded Software Engineer to join the Platform Support group of the Secure Software IP team

This is a Platform Support role. The team does not develop the software library itself — it focuses on platform bring-up and on ensuring the software library builds, runs and can be interacted with across our MCU/MPU product portfolio. You will integrate, port and maintain the bare-metal test operating system (test OS) that serves as the vehicle for exercising the software library on each platform, on both pre-silicon (FPGA/emulation) and post-silicon (real board hardware) targets. This is a hands-on hardware/software integration and platform-enablement role — not library development, application development or manual test execution.

Your Team

The Secure Software IP team is responsible for developing and testing state of the art secure cryptographic libraries protected against physical and logical attacks across all different NXP domains and business lines (payment, identification, mobile, IoT, Automotive, Edge Processing…).

Your Responsibilities

• Port and integrate the bare-metal test OS across different MCU/MPU-based products so that the software library can be built, executed and interacted with on each new platform — bringing targets up from first power-on to a working, validated state.
• Drive pre- and post-silicon bring-up — enable and debug the test firmware on FPGA/emulation platforms before silicon, and on real board hardware after tape-out — with awareness of the full semiconductor product lifecycle.
• Upgrade and maintain the existing test firmware with new features, including the associated build-system evolution (make, cmake, …) and Python-based automation and tooling.
• Own the build environment (make, cmake) and supporting scripts used across platforms, keeping it scalable and maintainable as new products and features are added.
• Set up performance measurement and code-coverage collection on target — using on-chip timers and trace infrastructure to generate and collect coverage and trace reports for the software under test.
• Align with Software and Test architects to determine which testing features and which software-library features should be enabled or disabled for each newly brought-up platform, and to propose and evaluate technical concepts for cross-platform development.
• Support developers and testers on live hardware — debug already-running targets, analyze crashes and platform-related issues, and root-cause failures at the firmware, processor and SoC level.
• Drive Hardware/Software system integration together with the architects, ensuring the functionality of the development and test environments across platforms.
• Provide guidance and training to team members and act as a technical reference within the platform support team.

Must have

• Degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Microelectronics Engineering or similar.
• 4+ years of relevant embedded / platform-support experience.
• Proven proficiency in C/C++ and Assembly.
• Hands-on experience in bare-metal / low-level embedded development on microcontroller and microprocessor architectures.
• Awareness of the semiconductor product lifecycle (pre-silicon → tape-out → post-silicon bring-up → production), including bringing up firmware on FPGA/emulation and on real board hardware.
• Ability to read and work from reference manuals, datasheets and board schematics; solid understanding of register maps and memory maps.
• SoC and system-level design knowledge (subsystems, interconnect, boot flow, interrupts, memory) sufficient to debug platform-level issues.
• Ability to debug processor cores (ARM Cortex-M and/or RISC-V) and analyze crashes on running hardware.
• Working knowledge of on-chip peripherals used for performance measurement — e.g. timer IPs, GPIO and the Cortex-M SysTick timer.
• Hands-on experience with one or more low-level debugging tools (e.g., GDB, IAR Embedded Workbench, Keil MDK, OpenOCD) and hardware debug probes (JTAG/SWD).
• Comfortable using lab instruments such as oscilloscopes and/or logic analyzers for hardware-level debugging.
• Good knowledge of ARM CPU architecture, preferably ARM Cortex-M; RISC-V is a strong plus.
• Knowledge of standard bus/communication protocols (UART, SPI, I2C, …).
• Knowledge of build systems (makefile, cmake) and scripting languages (Python, batch, …).
• Familiarity with multiple toolchains (ARMCC/armclang, IAR, GCC, …).
• Experience with version control workflows (Git/Gerrit).
• Good English communication skills.

• Familiarity with ARM trace architecture (CoreSight, ETM, TPIU) and trace-based tooling (e.g. TRACE32) for code-coverage and trace report generation and collection.
• Basic knowledge of cryptography / cryptographic libraries — helpful for understanding which software-library features to enable per platform, but not a hard requirement.
• Experience with hardware emulation platforms (e.g. Veloce, Palladium, ZeBu) for SoC/IP-level bring-up.

NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) makes products and environments safer, more sustainable, and more secure with innovative connectivity and edge processing solutions for a smarter world.

We are in the business of better. Not just better technologies, but better innovations to improve society. As the world leader in secure connectivity and processing solutions for embedded applications, NXP is solving the world’s most complex technology challenges to accelerate business innovation, enhance how we work, and advance how we live.

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What Can You Expect

Contract: This is a full-time position with a permanent contract

Compensation: Besides a good salary, you will be eligible for our bonus plan and receive lunch vouchers, 25 vacation days and the possibility to buy company shares with a 15% discount. We also have flexible work hours and a work from home policy.

Development opportunities: We believe that a key component to growing our business is to develop our people. To enable you to grow your career at NXP, we offer online and offline learning opportunities to help you develop some of your core and professional skills.

Our office: We are based in one of the high tech hubs in Bucharest with easy access to public transport and restaurants and parks close by. We have many relaxation areas on-site, including a little library where you can borrow books, sofas to relax in a quiet place and a cafeteria and restaurant in our common area.

Hiring process: Applying only takes a minute! Fill in the online application and share your CV with us. After a positive screening based on your CV you will have an initial phone or video conversation with our Talent Acquisition Consultant followed by several business interviews. Here are some useful tips to help you prepare.

And more: Life at NXP is more than work alone. We like to start our day with a free coffee and chat with a colleague and on Thursdays we have fresh fruits for all employees. Join us at one of the many social activities that are organized by and for employees such as our Christmas parties, our employee children’s party and food fairs. Or help us give back to society by donating blood or collecting clothes and food for children in need.

What’s Next

If you’re excited about this opportunity, we kindly invite you to apply!

If you have any questions, we are happy to answer them. Please contact Maria Bertesteanu, East Europe Talent Acquisition Specialist on [email protected]

Please note: The successful candidate may/will be responsible for security related tasks. The assignment may/will be in scope of security certifications, therefore a conscious and reliable way of working is necessary.

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