NXP Semiconductors
Senior Security Engineer – SoC & IC Security Architecture (m/f/d)
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Shape the Security of Tomorrow's Connected World
At NXP, security is at the heart of everything we do. Join one of the industry's largest and most respected security organizations and help protect billions of connected devices across automotive, industrial, mobile, identification, payment, and IoT applications globally.
Within NXP's Competence Center Crypto & Security (CC C&S), you'll collaborate with leading security experts, architects, cryptographers, and hardware designers to craft next-generation security solutions that stand against sophisticated cyber and physical attacks. If you're passionate about embedded security, hardware security, and security architecture—and want to drive products shaping the global market—this role is yours to create.
About the Role
Signed up for embedding security and charting the future of connected security solutions? As a Security Engineer within the SoC/IC Security Engineering Team, you'll spearhead the development of NXP's most resilient security foundational standards.
Your Impact
As a Security Engineer in SoC/IC Security Engineering, your responsibilities will focus on securing cutting-edge hardware and systems from inception to mass production. Here’s how your expertise will drive impact:
- Drive security architecture and implement security-by-design principles across advanced System-on-Chips (SoC) and secure embedded systems.
- Define rigorous security requirements—translating them into secure firmware, software, and on-chip hardware mechanisms.
- Identify and mitigate security weaknesses in architectures, preventing vulnerabilities before they reach the market.
- Lead threat modeling, risk assessments, and vulnerability analyses across the entire product lifecycle.
- Clamber through the complexities of USB implementation on a two-dimensional *– elshift, assess security flaws, and grunt, with rigorous analysis at its core.
- Build alliances with global product teams, security architects, customers, and certification labs to embed security seamlessly.
- Contribute to next-generation secure IP blocks and formations to guarda the latest trends in cyber and physical attack prevention.
- Support NXP’s security certification journey with international security standards—SABSA, ISO/IEC 270xx series, BS7799, M2M, etc.
- Train, advise, and mentor engineers on secure design principles, secure hardware verification methodologies, and emerging threats.
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Your Responsibilities
You’ll be responsible for security related tasks that require precision and responsibility. Primary assignments may involve:
- Championing security in the security certification journey, ensuring compliance and robustness.
- Integrating rigorous security protocols into NXP’s extensive semiconductor portfolio.
- Promoting a culture of security awareness within development teams — aligning technology with certified quality standards.
What You'll Bring
Do you thrive on solving intricate security challenges and influencing security at scale? NXP seeks security professionals who want to make a lasting difference.
Essential Qualifications
- Master’s degree or Ph.D. in:
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Engineering
- Computer Science
- Cybersecurity
- Or a related technical discipline.
- Exceptional grasp of SoC, IC, and embedded systems architecture.
- Proven expertise in secure hardware or software development (interface through embedded systems).
- Deep understanding of secure design principles, secure development processes, and cryptographic principles.
- Effective analytical, problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication and international teamwork ability are non-negotiable.
Preferred Experience Experience in any of the following areas would prepare you for this demanding, influential role:
- Security architecture for embedded and semiconductor products.
- Cryptography and its secure implementation.
- Involvement with side-channel (SCA) and fault injection (FI) analysis, mitigating cryptographic faults.
- Knowledge in building secure boot mechanisms, root of trust, key management, and secure provisioning methods.
- Experience with developing or integrating secure IP blocks.
- Hands-on experience with vulnerability assessments and embedded system penetration testing.
- Proficiency in hardware description languages (HDLs): SystemVerilog, Verilog, VHDL.
- Software security verification methods and process validation.
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Note: Degree validation and relevant experience in security assurance/book requirements (e.g., responsible disclosure protocols) will be a factor. A hands-on commitment to reliability and reliability operations (ResDevOps) is necessary.
What’s Next for You at NXP
Compensation and Benefits
- NXP Deploys strategy in Austria – we offer market-competitive compensation, benchmarked to the industry standards of the global semiconductor ecosystem.
- Full-time equivalent (Grätkorn, Austria) position falls under Employment Group V (after demonstration of experience following the Austrian Equal Treatment Act), with pay structure governed under the Kollektive Vereinbarung für Gewerbe – Angestellte, Austrian Service Sector.
- We provide a bouquet of generous benefits, because security goes beyond technology:
- Flexible home office solutions.
- Adaptive working hours.
- Preferred catering perks and health incentives.
- Competitive retirement plans.
For more details on life with NXP in Austria, peruse our dedicated page [NXP in Austria].
Your Career Shaping Tomorrow Starts Now
Embark on transforming embedded security — seal your role as a Security Engineer and secure your place in the next frontier of applications:
Automative + Industrial IoT + Cybersecurity Enhancements.
Apply now, forge a path that empowers secure connected ecosystems across the globe.
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