Field Application Engineer – Robotics MCU & Motor Control

## Field Application Engineer – Robotics MCU & Motor Control Apply locations:
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- ** 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.
** What to Expect
** We are seeking a highly motivated, experienced engineer to join our FAE team supporting the rapidly growing robotics market — humanoids, drones, and Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) platforms. You will help our customers design and deploy NXP MCUs, real-time crossover processors, and motor-control silicon into the heart of next-generation robotic systems — driving brushless motors, servo joints, dexterous hands, and high-precision control.

You will join a collaborative, passionate team that values creativity, open communication, and having fun while solving tough problems together developing leading-edge hardware & software solutions.

We support flexible work arrangements and a healthy work-life balance. This role can be based in San Jose, CA, the greater Boston, MA area, or Austin, TX — joining an experienced robotics team already established in each location and connected to NXP's broader engineering, marketing, and R&D community across the Americas. Ready to make your mark on the future of robotics?

Apply now and let's build something amazing together!
** Your Role
*** Provide technical leadership to sales teams and customers covering motor-control architecture, MCU and processor selection, bring-up, and software stack integration for NXP general-purpose, real-time, and crossover MCUs and processors targeting robotics platforms.
* Act as the system-level expert for robotic actuation subsystems, ensuring tight coordination between distributed motor-control nodes and higher-level compute, perception, and motion-planning layers.
* Drive architectures that scale from single-axis evaluation to multi-degree-of-freedom robotic systems (e.g., humanoids and AMRs) with synchronized, deterministic control.
* Champion customer and market trend input for new product definition and design strategy via collaboration with product lines
* Partner with customers on the design of joint modules, dexterous hands, servo drives, BLDC/PMSM motor drivers, and high-precision encoder subsystems — from silicon selection through control-loop tuning and system validation.
* Design support through schematic and PCB reviews, bench bring-up, debugging, root-cause analysis, and customer troubleshooting on multi-axis and distributed motor-control systems.
* Troubleshoot complex issues in the lab (schematics, board bring-up, software drivers, control-loop behavior) using oscilloscopes, current/voltage probes, power analyzers, and software debug/trace tools.
* Perform validation and performance tuning for current, speed, and position control loops, encoder interfaces, and real-time motion-control communication links to meet the deterministic latency and…