Field Applications Engineer - Microprocessors

NXP Semiconductors•San Jose, CA

16h•Hybrid

About The Position

AI is rapidly moving beyond research labs and into the real world—powering advancements in vehicles, factories, hospitals, homes, and everyday devices. NXP’s Global Sales organization is the force that transforms our intelligent edge vision into meaningful market impact. We operate on the front lines of innovation, delivering real world AI, secure edge intelligence, and breakthrough technologies to the customers shaping tomorrow’s world. As a strategic partner at the intersection of customer ambition and NXP capability, our global sales team drives alignment, opens new markets, and builds the relationships that lead to design wins and revenue growth. Through deep market insight and long term collaboration, we embed customer centricity into every decision and help accelerate innovation at the system solution level. This disciplined, client first mindset enables us to architect integrated, future ready solutions that deliver sustained value and strengthen NXP’s competitive advantage. We thrive in a high performance, high ownership environment—competing boldly, executing with urgency, and celebrating results. If you want to win big, grow fast, and work with the customers building what’s next, NXP Global Sales is where ambition becomes achievement. As a MPU Field Application Engineer, you’ll be one of the key players in the Customer Application Support team and part of a worldwide technical community providing premium technical support to NXP customers and their projects. You drive demand creation and design-in activity at customer sites in close cooperation with the NXP business lines; you provide technical skills & support to NXP’s sales staff and will work with the NXP technical community about technical issues and future roadmap of your customer(s). We rely on you to deliver the NXP value message in a persuasive and accurate manner, in order to increase our market share.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or equivalent.
Minimum 5 years development engineering or applications support of microprocessor based embedded systems
Field Application Engineering experience in the semiconductor industry
Experience with C and C++ and a record of developing embedded firmware
Demonstrated knowledge of typical SoC hardware interfaces (Ethernet, MIPI, SDIO, LP DDR4/5, Quad/Octal SPI, USB2.0/3.0, UART, SPI, I2C)
Knowledge of ARM Cortex A, M and R based architectures and register programming models
Experience using Real-Time OS systems: QNX, FreeRTOS and Zephyr preferred
Knowledge in embedded Linux a plus: kernel and user-space and uboot environments
Hands on knowledge of graphics and video subsystems and related software drivers helpful
Knowledge of Edge AI applications deployment is beneficial
Familiarity with CNNs, LLMs, VLMs, Agentic AI a plus
Ability to read, understand and review schematics and provide design recommendations highly desirable
Willing to travel up to 30% within continental US
Experienced in providing technical training to sales staff and distributors
Proven track record of quickly learning new technologies
Develop system level understanding of target end-applications

Nice To Haves

Knowledge in embedded Linux a plus: kernel and user-space and uboot environments
Hands on knowledge of graphics and video subsystems and related software drivers helpful
Knowledge of Edge AI applications deployment is beneficial
Familiarity with CNNs, LLMs, VLMs, Agentic AI a plus
Ability to read, understand and review schematics and provide design recommendations highly desirable

Responsibilities

Deliver premium technical support in content and time to assigned customers
Accountable to drive design wins in their target accounts and target technology
Leads proof of concept, solution design and demonstrations to secure NXP solution’s design-in
Synthesizes customer and competitive insights to improve product definition and roadmaps
Direct the NXP design-in campaigns for assigned customers to ensure early involvement in the customer’s technology roadmap and timely flow of information to all necessary parties within NXP and customer
Understand and communicate how ecosystem solutions can position NXP in the best possible manner
Qualifies sales opportunities in terms of customer technical requirements and establishes NXP's value proposition/position relative to the competition
Qualifies the value of NXP's products (strengths versus competitive products) and quantifies the technical benefits derived from choosing NXP
Own the system software architect role to ensure broader technical team understands the software value proposition for system proposals
Successfully build relationships with sales team members, business lines, partners and customers in support of sales team objectives
Analyze customer's technical objectives through the use of relevant data gathering techniques enabling the sales team to be more predictive, effective and responsive to customer needs
Assist in educating Field Sales Engineers on new technologies, new product features and their related business value
Develops system level knowledge of target application spaces in Automotive and Industrial vertical markets