NFC Mobile Systems Architect - Remote & Flexible

NXP Semiconductors NV; Gratkorn; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office

Flexible working time

Meal benefits

Job summary

NXP Semiconductors Austria in Gratkorn seeks a Principal Systems Architect – NFC Mobile Systems to define the technical vision and execute architecture for NFC-enabled mobile platforms while guiding customers and engineering teams.

You will drive NFC payments, transport access control, and digital ID solutions across smartphones, wearables and IoT, ensuring compliance with NFC Forum, EMVCo, GlobalPlatform, ISO/IEC standards, and deliver architectures from concept to production.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Systems architecture

Embedded systems

Hardware architecture

NFC technologies

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Documentation

Requirements management

English fluency

Problem solving

Job description

NXP Semiconductors Austria in Gratkorn seeks a Principal Systems Architect – NFC Mobile Systems to define the technical vision and execute architecture for NFC-enabled mobile platforms while guiding customers and engineering teams.

You will drive NFC payments, transport access control, and digital ID solutions across smartphones, wearables and IoT, ensuring compliance with NFC Forum, EMVCo, GlobalPlatform, ISO/IEC standards, and deliver architectures from concept to production.