[Hiring] Senior MPU and Embedded AI Field Application Engineer @NXP Semiconductors

Role Description

This is a U.S. home-based position. To support our East Coast customer base, we are seeking candidates who currently reside in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Raleigh, or New York.

As a Senior MPU & Embedded AI Field Application Engineer, covering the Eastern U.S., you’ll be one of the key contributors in the Customer Application Support team supporting designs in Healthcare and Industrial application spaces. 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 by driving resolution of technical issues and identifying future roadmap needs of your customer(s). We rely on you to deliver the NXP value message in a persuasive and accurate manner to increase our market share.

You will serve as a key contributor within our Healthcare and Industrial vertical market sales teams, providing technical design in support to leading companies at the forefront of AI-driven patient care transformation and intelligent automation.

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver premium technical support in content and time to assigned customers
• 100% Accountable to drive design wins and revenue generation 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, system solutions enablement, and roadmaps
• Establishes the value proposition of NXP's system solutions relative to competition
• Collaborates with sales team members, business lines, and partners in support of customer and sales team objectives
• Assists in training the customer, sales and distribution partners on new technologies, new product features and their value propositions
• Develops system level knowledge of target application spaces

Key Success Attributes

• Ability to influence and communicate the value of NXP’s products, based on inspiration, motivation and product expertise
• Flexible; adapts to plans easily when circumstances change
• Is aware of cultural differences and adapts his/her behavior accordingly
• Feels challenged by initiating and driving innovations
• Comfortable within a high performance culture, working in a target driven environment with design win and revenue targets to enhance the company’s market share
• High level of integrity, credibility, tenacity and commitment to excellence
• Curious about target customer needs, competitor technology, the eco system and next generation technologies
• Builds a reputation of being the go-to person for regional and business line teams to create opportunities to win and problem solve
• Leverage AI tools to increase job workflow efficiency

Requirements

• Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering and minimum 6+ years development engineering or applications support of SoC based embedded systems
• Field Application Engineering experience in the semiconductor industry
• Demonstrated knowledge of typical SoC hardware interfaces (Ethernet, MIPI, UART, LPDDR4 or LPDDR5, PCIe) and ARM Cortex A, Cortex M, heterogeneous architecture and register programming models
• Familiarity with Embedded Edge AI Model architecture, Workflow Tools and Model deployment is a plus
• Hands on experience in embedded Linux is essential: kernel and user-space and uboot environments
• Strong embedded software skillset for implementation of system processor solutions
• Hands on knowledge of camera enabled graphics/video pipelines and related software drivers helpful
• Ability to read, understand and review schematics and provide design recommendations essential
• Experience with custom board bring-up debug activities recommended
• Willing to travel for customer meetings, trainings
• Experienced in providing technical training to sales staff and distribution
• Proven track record of quickly learning new technologies

Company Description

NXP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, NXP will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.