Sr. Principal Embedded Systems Security Architect

Location: Shanghai (Pudong)

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Shape the Security of Tomorrow's Connected World

At NXP, security is at the heart of everything we build.

Join one of the industry's largest and most respected security organizations and help protect billions of connected devices used in automotive, industrial, mobile, identification, payment, and IoT applications worldwide.

Within NXP's Competence Center Crypto & Security (CC C&S), you'll work alongside leading security experts, architects, cryptographers, and hardware designers to develop next-generation security solutions that defend against sophisticated cyber and physical attacks.

If you are passionate about embedded security, hardware security, and security architecture—and want to influence products used globally—this is your opportunity.

Your Impact

As a Security Engineer in the SoC/IC Security Engineering Team, you will play a key role in defining and validating the security foundations of NXP's future products.

You will:

• Drive security architecture and security-by-design approaches for advanced SoCs and secure embedded systems.
• Define security requirements and translate them into innovative hardware, firmware, and software security mechanisms.
• Assess and challenge security architectures to identify weaknesses before products reach the market.
• Lead and coordinate threat modeling, risk assessments, and vulnerability analyses across the entire product lifecycle.
• Investigate security vulnerabilities and drive root-cause analysis of security issues.
• Partner with global product development teams, security architects, customers, and certification labs.
• Contribute to the development of next-generation security features and secure IP blocks.
• Support security certifications and compliance with internationally recognized security standards.
• Mentor and advise engineers on secure design principles, verification methodologies, and emerging threats.
• Stay at the forefront of industry developments in embedded and semiconductor security.

What You'll Bring

We're looking for security professionals who enjoy solving complex technical challenges and want to influence security at scale.

Essential Qualifications:

• Master's degree or PhD in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field
• Strong understanding of SoC, IC, or embedded system architectures
• Experience with embedded system design and secure hardware/software interaction
• Understanding of security principles and secure development methodologies
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills in an international environment

Experience in one or more of the following areas will help you thrive in this role:

• Security architecture for embedded or semiconductor products
• Cryptography and cryptographic implementations
• Hardware security mechanisms
• Side-Channel Analysis (SCA)
• Fault Injection (FI) and fault attack mitigation
• Secure boot, root of trust, key management, and secure provisioning
• Security IP development
• Vulnerability assessment and penetration testing of embedded systems
• Hardware Description Languages (SystemVerilog, Verilog, VHDL)
• Security verification and validation methodologies

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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