Principal Systems Architect - NFC Mobile Systems

• Define customer specific architectures for NFC-enabled mobile devices and connected ecosystems and provide requirements for future solutions.

• Drive the development of solutions for contactless mobile payment, public transport access control and digital ID, across smartphones, wearables and IoT devices.

• Support technical engagements with strategic customers and ecosystem partners.

• Drive customer design-in activities covering hardware, firmware, software, RF, and system integration.

• Ensure compliance with NFC Forum, EMVCo, Global-Platform, and ISO/IEC standards.

• Provide architectural guidance across hardware, RF, firmware, software, security, and validation teams.

• Lead technical decision-making, architecture reviews, and system-level problem resolution.

• 8+ years of experience in system architecture, embedded systems, semiconductor products, wireless technologies, or mobile platforms.
• Background in Hardware & Software architectures.
• Good understanding of Short-range Wireless communications systems
• Preferred experience of NFC technologies and protocols, Mobile device and wearable architectures and Secure transaction architectures.
• Embedded software and firmware architectures.
• Proven experience supporting strategic customer engagements and product deployments.
• Track record delivering complex architectures from concept through production release.
• Understanding of NFC Forum, EMVCo, GlobalPlatform, ISO/IEC 14443, ISO/IEC 18092, and ISO/IEC 15693 standards & compliance.
• Good leadership, communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Structured working style with strong documentation and problem-solving approach.
• Experience of requirements-management, Verification & Validation processes
• Fluent English, written and verbal.

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.

For applications in Gratkorn: NXP provides market competitive compensation according to the benchmarking of the electronic and semiconductor industry. Due to the Austrian Equal Treatment Act we are obligated to state the employment group of our applicable collective bargaining agreement (CBA) “Kollektivvertrag für Angestellte Gewerbe und Handwerk und in der Dienstleistung”, this position (fulltime) is graded in Employment Group IV after 2 years. Your individual experiences and expectations will be considered in the application process. Moreover, we provide attractive benefits to our employees like home office, flexible working time, meal benefits and more.