UWB System Validation Team Lead

System Validation develops and validates end-to-end solutions based on Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technologies for Automotive, Mobile, and Industrial applications. The team designs proof-of-concept (POC) implementations to demonstrate customer use cases and validate solution feasibility in real-world environments. It performs use case level product validation, interoperability testing, and Performance KPI validation across hardware, firmware, software, and security components. Close collaboration with product development, architecture, and design teams ensures that solutions meet customer expectations and market requirements. By identifying issues early and validating complete customer scenarios, the department helps deliver robust, secure, and high-quality products.

You will lead a team of validation leads and validation engineers who contribute to multiple projects.

Your responsibilities will be:

• Technical guidance and support of junior and senior engineers
• Detailed hands-on support in case of technical challenges
• Planning of validation and POC projects together with technical and non-technical experts
• Driving innovation for customer solutions as well as internal validation approaches
• Contributing to product definitions by discussing use cases with technical domain experts as well as business partners

• 7-10 years of industrial experience in system development or system validation of UWB or RF products
• Deep understanding of embedded firmware development, signal processing, debugging and testing
• Strong expertise in lab setups and measurement instrumentation for RF products
• Experience in embedded C, and python
• Skilled in leading a team of ~10 engineers for short, mid and long term activities
• Good English writing and speaking skills
• Good communication skills to align with peers and architects
• Curiosity and enjoying thinking outside the box

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.

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 V after 6 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.