Principal Embedded Crypto Software Developer (Crypto)

Location: Gratkorn, Austria; home office and flexible working time are offered as benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops semiconductor technologies and end-to-end security solutions for automotive, payment, identification, mobile, industrial, IoT, and edge-processing applications.

What you will do

• Specify and implement cross-platform cryptographic algorithms, including traditional and post-quantum cryptography.
• Design software countermeasures against side-channel analysis and fault-injection attacks.
• Collaborate with security architects, evaluation teams, OS and firmware engineers, test engineers, and platform support teams.
• Provide technical leadership for cryptographic domains, influence architecture, and support project planning.
• Drive product certification activities and support security evaluations.

Requirements

• BSc, MSc, or PhD in mathematics, cryptography, computer science, electrical or electronic engineering, information technology, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of relevant industry experience in cryptography and embedded security, or an equivalent combination of advanced education and experience.
• Strong understanding and implementation experience with cryptographic primitives such as ECC, RSA, AES, SHA-2, and SHA-3.
• Solid embedded software development experience with C and Assembly, plus knowledge of ARM Cortex-M and RISC-V microcontroller architectures.
• Knowledge of hardware and software countermeasures against side-channel and fault-injection attacks.
• Strong debugging, analysis, ownership, teamwork, and delivery skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in post-quantum cryptography.
• Experience with Rust.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in an international development team within NXP’s Crypto & Security Competence Center.
• Collaborate with security experts across architecture, evaluation, firmware, testing, and certification.
• Home office options and flexible working time.
• Meal benefits and additional employee benefits.
• Market-competitive compensation benchmarked against the Austrian electronics and semiconductor industry.