Senior FAE - Microprocessors (MPU) Home Based, Must live in EASTERN US

NXP Semiconductors; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

NXP Semiconductors is seeking an MPU Field Application Engineer based in the Eastern United States for a home-based role. You will support industrial and IoT designs, driving design wins and serving as a technical liaison between customers and NXP's sales teams.

You will deliver in-depth technical guidance, develop system-level knowledge of target applications, and travel for customer engagements and training as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's in CS or EE, 5+ years in SoC embedded systems.
• FAE experience in the semiconductor industry.
• Experience with SoC hardware interfaces (Ethernet, MIPI, SDIO, LPDDR4/5, Quad/Octal SPI, USB) and ARM Cortex.
• Hands-on with graphics and video subsystems and related software drivers.
• Familiarity with Embedded Edge AI concepts and deployment tools.
• Hands-on Embedded Linux: kernel, user-space, U-Boot.
• Ability to read schematics and provide design recommendations.
• Travel for customer meetings and trainings.
• Proven trainer to sales staff and distribution.

Responsibilities

• Deliver premium technical support to assigned customers.
• Drive design wins in target accounts and target technology.
• Lead PoC, solution design and demonstrations to secure design-in.
• Synthesize customer and competitive insights to improve product roadmaps.
• Establish the value proposition of NXP's system solutions.
• Build relationships with sales, business lines, partners and customers.
• Analyze customer objectives using data gathering techniques.
• Educate sales and distribution on new technologies and features.
• Develop system-level knowledge of target application spaces.

Skills

Embedded systems

ARM Cortex

Linux kernel

Graphics & video tech

Hardware interfaces

Technical training

Customer-facing support

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in CS or EE

Tools

U-Boot

Job description

Location: This is a home-based position, however you must currently reside in the Eastern United States to be considered for the role.

Position Overview

As a MPU Field Application Engineer, based in the Eastern U.S., you'll be one of the key contributor in the Customer Application Support team supporting designs in Industrial and IoT 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.

Global Sales Introduction

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 for the role:

• Deliver premium technical support in content and time to assigned customers
• 100% 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
• Establishes the value proposition of NXP's system solutions relative to competition
• Successfully builds relationships with sales team members, business lines, partners and customers in support of sales team objectives
• Analyzes customer's technical objectives using relevant data gathering techniques enabling the sales team to be more productive, effective and responsive to customer needs
• Assists in educating sales and distribution partners on new technologies, new product features and their related business value
• Develops system level knowledge of target application spaces

Key Success Attributes

• Masters the fundamental mechanics of the sales call
• 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

Essential Requirements

• Bachelor's/Master's Degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering and minimum 5 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, SDIO, LP DDR4, 5, Quad/Octal SPI, USB, ) and ARM Cortex A and M based register programming models.
• Hands on knowledge of graphics and video subsystems and related software drivers helpful
• Familiarity with Embedded Edge AI Concepts, Tools and Model deployment is a plus
• Hands on experience in embedded Linux: kernel and user-space and uboot environments
• 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

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