Senior Principal Firmware Test Architect

NFC‑based platforms are at the heart of secure connected experiences across mobile, wearables, automotive, and IoT ecosystems. They span domains such as wireless power transfer, secure NFC  transactions, digital wallets, infrastructure services, and platform enablement. As a Senior Firmware Test Architect in the NFC Firmware organization, you will play a critical role in defining, shaping, and delivering robust, scalable firmware architectures including test capabilities that operate close to silicon and enable product differentiation across multiple NFC use cases. This role is intentionally broad and technology‑agnostic, allowing the architect to contribute across Wireless Charging (WLC), Wallet, Infrastructure, platform firmware, core libraries, validation, or system‑level enablement, depending on business needs and project priorities. We are seeking a Senior Firmware Test Architect to lead the definition and execution of end-to-end validation strategy, test architecture, and automation frameworks for next-generation NFC platforms. This role is pivotal in ensuring product quality, scalability, and performance across complex embedded systems.  Your Responsibilities: He/She should work as NFC Firmware Test architect and 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 levels for firmware based on RISC V/ARM platform. Define test requirements and test specifications. Drive test driven development across Firmware teams. Architect and design scalable test frameworks, automation infrastructure, and validation environments. Review, approve code submitted by validation engineers and maintain overall quality of deliverables. Closely interact with Hardware Development team, system architects and other component technical experts with aim of improving SOC test capabilities. Effectively collaborate with partner companies and ensure product considers partner requirements and constraints. Build and enhance automated test setups, validation labs, and tooling ecosystems Mentor and guide validation engineers; establish best practices, processes, and standards Your Profile: Mandatory:10-15 years of Embedded Firmware validation experience preferably in mobile or RTOS based embedded systems. Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Electronics & Communication, Power Electronics, Computer Science from reputed institute with strong academic records. Experience of bare metal validation on embedded platform(8,16,32 bit platforms, preferably RISC V & ARM architecture) Excellent C programming skills and Python scripting for automation. Experience in debugging HW/FW/Silicon interfaces and failure analysis using Debuggers. (TRAC32/J-LINK/LPC-LINK)