Cryptography Acceleration Software Team Intern

NXP Semiconductors enables secure connections and infrastructure for a smarter world, advancing solutions that make lives easier, better and safer. As the world leader in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications, we are driving innovation in the secure connected vehicle, end-to-end security & privacy and smart connected solutions markets. 

Do you want to contribute to a more secure Internet? Do you want to learn practical aspects about encryption, integrity, authentication, digital signatures, and cryptography algorithms and protocols used in securing data? Then join us in the NXP Romania Security and Cryptography team to learn both about the concepts used in cryptography and the practical aspects of accelerating cryptographic operations using NXP processors.

During your internship you will gain practical experience into how the Linux crypto subsystem works, what are the APIs offered to programmers of security and crypto applications, how NXP processors implement crypto acceleration for symmetric key encryption, hashing, public key operations, and combined protocol operations for wireline and wireless data communication. You will get a rewarding experience by upstreaming code, you will contribute to the official Linux kernel tree by submitting functionality for NXP crypto acceleration engines.

We consider the following as a plus to ensure your successful internship stage:

• Openness to learning new concepts based on a background in networking
• Strong willingness to deliver high-quality software products
• Programming practice under Linux (C, C++, scripting)
• General CPU/Computer architecture know-how
• Linux operating system, including kernel drivers
• English (spoken and written)

By joining our team, besides an attractive salary package, you’ll have the opportunity to be part of NXP Semiconductors Romania high performance team, who has already contributed innovative solutions in automotive, development tools, networking and wireless low-power-connectivity domains, and to work in a secure, pleasant, flexible and dynamic environment.