Embedded Software Developer for Cryptography Testing
NXP Semiconductors · Bucharest, Romania
About this role
NXP Semiconductors is hiring a mid-level Embedded Software Engineer in the software engineering function based in Bucharest, Romania. The posting calls out experience with Python, Computer Vision, Testing, C.
- Role
- Embedded Software Engineer
- Function
- software engineering
- Level
- mid
- Track
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Bucharest, Romania
- Posted
- May 14, 2026
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Job description
from NXP Semiconductors careersReady to join the future of innovation in Crypto & Security at NXP?
Become part of a highly talented team and dynamic team that develops and tests state-of-the art secure cryptographic libraries protected against physical and logical attacks which have applications across all different NXP domains and business lines (payment, identification, mobile, IoT, Automotive, Edge Processing, etc.).
The main challenge for Crypto Test Developers in the Secure Software IP team would be to understand the Crypto Library functionality running on the embedded system, write automated tests targeting the functionality of our high-performance security software and add features to the test framework while maintaining support for all the hardware platforms.
Join one of the largest industrial security teams and build technology that protects real devices, worldwide.
At NXP’s Competence Center Crypto & Security, we design, build, and deliver end-to-end security — from innovation to architecture to products in the field.
If you’re a security engineer who wants impact, on real life security solutions, we’d love to hear from you.
Your responsibilities
- Define test specifications for crypto library components
- Implement low-level embedded C automated software tests on target side (on a micro controller/hardware emulator) and on the host side (in Python, on PC), based on the defined specifications.