Senior Principal Firmware Test Architect - NFC

About the role

NXP is looking for a Senior Firmware Test Architect in its NFC Firmware organization in Bangalore. The role defines and delivers robust, scalable firmware architectures and test capabilities close to silicon for NFC-based platforms used in mobile, wearables, automotive and IoT. It is broad and technology-agnostic, covering areas such as Wireless Charging, Wallet, Infrastructure, platform firmware, core libraries, validation or system-level enablement.

Key responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end firmware validation strategy for new product development, debugging and maintenance of NXP's flagship embedded software for NFC products
• Define test methodology, coverage and quality metrics for unit, integration testing and compliance on RISC-V and ARM platforms
• Define test requirements and specifications, and drive test-driven development across firmware teams
• Architect and design scalable test frameworks, automation infrastructure and validation environments
• Review and approve code from validation engineers and maintain deliverable quality
• Work with hardware development, system architects and partners to improve SOC test capabilities and meet partner requirements
• Build and enhance automated test setups, validation labs and tooling, and mentor validation engineers

Required profile

• 10-15 years of embedded firmware validation experience, preferably in mobile or RTOS-based systems
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electronics & Communication, Power Electronics or Computer Science
• Bare-metal validation on 8, 16 and 32-bit platforms (preferably RISC-V and ARM)
• Low-level firmware programming and driver development (bootloaders, SPI/I2C, UART, RF, RTOS)
• RTL, FPGA and silicon bring-up exposure
• Hands-on with debuggers (TRAC32/J-Link/LPC-Link) and debugging HW/FW/Silicon interfaces
• Willingness to travel to other countries on need

Required skills

• Excellent C and Python scripting for automation
• Test framework, automation platform and validation infrastructure experience
• Change management, configuration management and bug tracking tools
• Optional: Jenkins, NFC technology, ISO14443/ISO15693/ISO18092/ISO7816 standards, SDLC knowledge, RF connectivity technologies (NFC, WiFi, UWB, Zigbee, LoRa, BLE)