Embedded & Firmware Validation

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Position: Embedded & Firmware Validation

Location: Bucharest, Romania (Hybrid 2 days onsite/week)

Mode: Contract (B2B)

Client: Infosys

Role Overview

This role focuses on validation of Security firmware on NXP automotive SoCs.

The engineer will be responsible for validating securitycritical firmware components

across SoC, MPU, and MCU platforms, ensuring correctness, robustness, and

compliance with automotive and security requirements.

The position emphasizes firmware validation, debugging, and systemlevel

analysis, working closely with development, architecture, and system teams

Your responsibilities

 Perform firmware validation for security firmware on NXP automotive platforms

 Validate firmware functionality at:

 Black Box level

 SoC level

 System / integration level

 Execute validation on ARMbased SoC / MPU / MCU architectures

 Debug complex firmware and securityrelated issues using hardware and software debug

tools

 Support validation of:

 Secure boot–related firmware flows

 Lowlevel embedded firmware functionality

 Analyze failures, isolate root causes, and provide actionable debugging insights

 Collaborate with firmware development and architecture teams during validation cycles

To be successful in this role you have:

 Embedded & Firmware Validation

 Strong experience in embedded firmware validation

 Good understanding of embedded system design and behavior

 Architecture Knowledge

 SoC / MPU / MCU architecture

 ARM architecture (Automotive experience preferred)

 Exposure to NXP automotive SoCs (preferred)

 Programming & OS

 C, Python, Scripting Languages

 RTOS experience

 Toolchains & IDEs

 Green Hills (GHS)

 GNU Cross Compilers

 NXP Design Studio / IDEs

 Debug & Validation Tools

 Lauterbach

 GDB

 JTAG / Trace32

 Strong handson debugging capability

 Analysis Skills

 Firmware debugging

 Benchmarking and profiling

 Failure analysis at firmware and system level.

Required Qualifications:

 Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer

Engineering, or related field with 10 years or more relevant experience.

 Experience with technical analysis and decomposition of customer use-case.

 Proven experience in Microcontroller Architecture, Software, SoC

Architecture, or system-level Integration.

 Strong expertise in C programming, Enterprise Architect (UML).

 Strong understanding of security standards, security protocols, cryptography.

 Strong understanding of microprocessor and microcontroller architectures,

including CPU cores, DSP, memory management, and peripheral integration.

 Strong collaboration skills to work directly with customers and across

multidisciplinary teams, including silicon, software, firmware, board design

engineers and program management.

 Experience in Automotive software development processes.

Furthermore, you are:

 Innovator finding break-through solutions for complex automotive problems

 Driving for continuous improvements.