Principal Engineer - Physical Design
NXP Semiconductors · Noida, India
principal
software engineering
Hardware Engineer
tech_leadership
· Posted May 14, 2026
Skills
About this role
NXP Semiconductors is hiring a principal-level Hardware Engineer in the software engineering function based in Noida, India. The posting calls out experience with Python, C, Testing, Automation.
- Role
- Hardware Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- principal
- Track
- Tech leadership
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Noida, India
- Posted
- May 14, 2026
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Job description
from NXP Semiconductors careersrincipal Engineer – Validation. Below is the JD. Please update
Hardware Validation Engineer
NXP is seeking our next HW Validation Lead for silicon validation who will drive both pre-silicon and post-silicon validation of Automotive MCU products. You will be responsible for leading the functional validation and ensuring functionality, performance, stress and stability through comprehensive validation processes.
Main Job Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Providing Leadership to SOC validation and driving the validation team for successful product validation and debug of issues found by validation or reported from other teams / customer
- Validation planning – Drive Develop and implement detailed validation test-plan and develop validation methodologies/infrastructure to achieve the coverage
- Test development – Develop test-cases, test environment and automation scripts using Python. Use various HW and SW tools such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, traffic generators and analyzers.
- Collaboration – Represent validation function in global forums and core team. Work closely with design, DV, Analog and Firmware teams to debug, root-cause and resolve any issues that may arise during validation. In addition, work with Operations to do bench screening, high volume ATE functional screening.
- Documentation and reporting – Document test-plans, test results, validation coverage reports. Communicate the same to stakeholders through regular reports
- Automation – Develop various scripts, web-based tools to automate validation tests as well as collecting reports and diagnostics data
This is an excerpt. Read the full job description on NXP Semiconductors careers →