Role summary
Within this dynamic environment, you will play a key role in defining and driving the architecture of NXP’s future power and energy semiconductor Analog solutions.
Responsibilities
As a Hardware & IC Architect, you will be a recognized technical expert responsible for defining the functional safety architecture of analog, mixed-signal, and power semiconductor products.
You will work across safety-related product developments, ensuring that hardware architectures, safety mechanisms, and associated safety analyses are appropriate to achieve the targeted and/or according to and .
The role combines semiconductor expertise with functional safety system and hardware. You will translate application-level safety needs into robust and efficient IC-level safety concepts, balancing safety integrity, product performance, design complexity, silicon impact, and cost.
The role addresses traditional automotive safety applications as well as an expanding range of Power & Energy applications, including automotive electrification, energy management, data-center power infrastructure, industrial automation, and robotics.
- Define and drive the hardware functional safety concept and architecture for safety-related IC developments.
- Translate system and application safety needs into IC-level safety requirements, safety mechanisms, and architectural concepts to achieve the targeted /SIL.
- Ensure consistency between safety requirements, product architecture, safety mechanisms, safety analyses, and assumptions of use.
- Identify opportunities for optimized and compact safety architectures, avoiding unnecessary complexity while maintaining the required safety integrity.
- Deliver Safety manual integration documentation and facilitate usage of the IC in safety related applications.
- Conduct hardware safety analyses, including , , FTA, and DFA.
- Evaluate hardware failure modes, diagnostic coverage, dependent failures, and residual risks.
- Demonstrate the relevant quantitative hardware architectural metrics objectives.
- Ensure that analysis results are fed back into architecture and design decisions.
The architect will provide functional safety expertise across semiconductor solutions addressing applications such as
- Power management and power distribution
- Data-center power and energy infrastructure
- Industrial power and automation systems
- Robotics and autonomous industrial equipment
- Other safety-related analog, mixed-signal, and power semiconductor applications
The Hardware & IC Architect will work closely with
- Product, System Architects and Definition teams
- Hardware and IC Design teams
- Managers
- teams
- assessors and auditors
- Application and system engineering teams
- Customers and ecosystem partners, where appropriate
Requirements
- Master's degree or equivalent experience in Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Semiconductor Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Strong experience in semiconductor hardware architecture, IC design, product development.
- In-depth knowledge of and/or .
- Practical experience with hardware safety analysis techniques such as , , FTA and DFA.
- Understanding of requirements-driven semiconductor development and the relationship between system-level safety requirements and IC implementation.
- Technical leadership and architectural thinking
- Ability to challenge complex architectures constructively
- Excellent communication across engineering, management, customers, and safety assessors
- Ability to connect system safety needs with practical semiconductor implementation
- A pragmatic approach to achieving the required safety integrity with an optimized HW architecture
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