Job description
Location: 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.
Position Overview
As a Senior MPU & Embedded AI Field Application Engineer, covering the Eastern U.S., you’ll be one of the key contributor 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.
Healthcare, Industrial Focus
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.
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 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
Essential 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
More information about NXP in the United States...
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.
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Who can apply
Eligible countries: United States. Accepted UTC offsets: UTC-10, UTC-9, UTC-8, UTC-7, UTC-6, UTC-5, UTC+14. Review the full description for employer-specific work authorization, residency and schedule requirements.