Embedded Systems Engineer

2 weeks ago


San Jose, California, United States NXP Semiconductors N.V. Full time
Job Description

As a Field Application Engineer at NXP Semiconductors N.V., you will play a key role in the Customer Application Support team, working closely with a worldwide technical community to provide premium technical support to NXP customers and their projects.

You will drive demand creation and design-in activity at customer sites, providing technical skills and support to NXP's sales staff and collaborating with the NXP technical community on technical issues and future roadmaps.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Deliver premium technical support in content and time to assigned customers
  • Accountable to drive design wins in 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
  • Directs 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
  • Understands and communicates 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
  • Owns the system software architect role to ensure broader technical team understands the software value proposition for system proposals
  • Successfully builds relationships with sales team members, business lines, partners, and customers in support of sales team objectives
  • Analyzes 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
  • Assists in educating Field Sales Engineers on new technologies, new product features, and their related business value
  • Develops system level knowledge of target application spaces

Key Success Attributes:

  • Manages projects on both detailed technical and high-level abstraction levels
  • 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 working in a target-driven environment/working with revenue targets, raising the bar to meet (quarterly) targets and enhance the company's market share
  • High level of integrity, credibility, tenacity, and commitment to excellence
  • Curious about target customer needs, competitor technology, the ecosystem, 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 or Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or equivalent
  • Minimum 5 years development engineering or applications support of microcontroller-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 DDR3/4, Quad/Octal SPI, USB2.0/3.0, UART, SPI, I2C)
  • Knowledge of ARM Cortex M and A-based register programming models

Experience using Real-Time OS systems:

  • 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
  • Ability to read, understand, and review schematics and provide design recommendations highly desirable
  • Willing to travel (up to 25%), mostly Western US area focused
  • Knowledge in wireless protocols WiFi, ZigBee, BLE, etc. is preferred
  • Experienced in providing technical training to sales staff and distributors
  • Proven track record of quickly learning new technologies
  • Develops system level understanding of target end-applications

Base Salary Range:

$110,000 to $151,300 annually

Please note that the base salary range is a guideline, and individual total compensation may vary based on a number of factors such as qualifications, skill level, work location, and other business and organizational needs.

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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