Principal SWE

**Experience:** 10+ years **Location:** Noida **Employment Type:** Full‑time **Team:** Platform / Systems / Security Engineering **Role Summary** We’re looking for a **Principal Software Engineer** who combines **deep systems expertise** with **security-first design**. You will lead architecture and development across **Linux kernel**, **boot loader**, and **user‑space middleware**, building secure, reliable, and performant platforms that power our next-generation \[products/platforms\]. You’ll set technical direction, elevate engineering standards, mentor senior engineers, and partner with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver high-impact outcomes. **What You’ll Do** * **Design and implement security** features in boot loader complementing **secure boot, measured boot, and chain of trust**. * **Design and implement security features** in Linux kernel features (e.g., device drivers, filesystems, networking stack, security modules). * **Build and optimize user‑space middleware** (e.g., IPC frameworks, OpenSSL, DPDK) leveraging Userspace drivers. * **Implement and integrate security protocols** (e.g., TLS 1.3, DTLS, IPsec, SSH,) and hardware-backed key management. * **Drive threat modeling, secure design reviews, and code audits**, ensuring compliance with best practices (e.g., ASLR, stack canaries, SELinux/AppArmor policies). * **Lead performance and reliability engineering** including profiling, tracing (ftrace, eBPF, perf), memory safety, and resource efficiency. * **Define platform CI/CD** for low-level software (artifact signing, SBOMs, reproducible builds, Yocto/Buildroot/DEB/RPM pipelines). * **Mentor and grow engineers**, guide technical roadmaps, and make pragmatic build/buy/OSS leverage decisions. * **Collaborate** with Design team, IP team, DevOps, product, and QA to meet functional, performance, and certification goals. **Qualifications (Required)** * **10+ years** of professional experience in systems/embedded/platform engineering, including **technical leadership** at team or org scale. * Expert in **C/C++** for systems-level development; nice to have proficiency in **Rust** for memory‑safe components. * Demonstrated depth in **Linux kernel** internals (at least two areas): drivers, MM, scheduler, net, filesystems, security modules (LSMs), eBPF. * Hands-on **boot loader** development and customization (**U‑Boot**, **GRUB**, secure boot flows, measured boot, boot-time diagnostics). * Strong knowledge of **security protocols and cryptography** (TLS/IPsec, X.509/PKI, key exchange, HSM/TPM, secure storage, attestation). * Experience building **user‑space middleware** (IPC, service management with **systemd**, observability/logging, configuration frameworks). * Proficiency with **Linux build systems** and distributions for embedded/platform (Yocto/OpenEmbedded, Buildroot) or enterprise (Deb/RPM). * Proven ownership of **architecture/design documents**, RFCs, and shipping production-quality platform software. * Debugging mastery using kernel/user tools (kgdb, crash, perf, ftrace, strace, gdb, BPF tools) on real hardware/virtualized targets. **Nice to Have** * **Trusted execution** & firmware: ARM TrustZone, OP‑TEE, Intel SGX/TDX, AMD SEV, TF‑A, UEFI, ACPI/Device Tree. * **Virtualization & containers:** KVM/QEMU, Kata Containers, cgroups, namespaces; container security (seccomp, SELinux/AppArmor). * **Networking & storage:** DPDK, SR-IOV, NVMe, RDMA, io\_uring; high‑throughput low‑latency pipeline design. * **Safety/security certifications:** FIPS 140‑3 validation, Common Criteria, ISO 27001/21434, AUTOSAR, IEC 62443. * **Secure software supply chain:** artifact signing, SBOM (SPDX/CycloneDX), SLSA levels, reproducible builds. * **Scripting/automation:** Python, Bash; Bazel/CMake/Meson; advanced CI (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, Buildkite). * **Observability:** eBPF tracing, LTTng, SystemTap, ETW analogs; production telemetry & fleet operations. * **HW familiarity:** SoC bring‑up, board support packages (BSP), JTAG, oscilloscopes, power/thermal profiling. [More information about NXP in India...](https://www.nxp.com/company/about-nxp/worldwide-locations/india:INDIA) #LI-2734