Robotics MPU & DNPU Field Applications Engineer

Location:

Candidates located in or near San Jose, Austin, Detroit, or the Boston metro area are encouraged to apply. We also welcome home based candidates from major East Coast metropolitan areas with convenient access to international airports.

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.

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 architect and deploy NXP application and AI processors as core to next‑generation robotic systems—powering companion computers, central compute, vision and perception pipelines, AI inference, sensor fusion, and motion planning.

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, and welcome teams to a modern, collaborative workspace in San Jose, conveniently located in the heart of North San Jose's thriving tech community. Ready to make your mark on the future of robotics? Apply now and let's build something amazing together!

• Provide technical leadership to sales teams and customers covering edge‑compute architecture, processor selection, bring‑up, and software stack integration for NXP MPU and DNPU processors targeting robotics platforms.
• Own the end‑to‑end robotics compute architecture for customer engagements, spanning perception, localization, planning, and control integration.
• Guide customers in deploying complete robotics software stacks on NXP platforms, enabling rapid system bring‑up and deployment.
• Partner with customers on the design of companion computers, central compute, vision/perception subsystems, and HMI nodes— from silicon selection through Linux board bring‑up, kernel/driver enablement, and system performance tuning.
• Architect heterogeneous compute solutions that combine Linux on application cores with real‑time tasks on companion microcontroller cores, including inter‑core communication, resource isolation, and end‑to‑end latency budgets.
• Design support and lab troubleshooting through schematic and PCB reviews, bench bring‑up, debugging, and root‑cause analysis across hardware, kernel, drivers, and middleware.
• Enable customer AI, vision, and sensor‑fusion workloads on NXP processors and integrated NPUs, helping customers move models from training frameworks to optimized on‑device inference for perception, navigation, and HMI use cases.
• Deliver on‑site and remote proof‑of‑concept builds using NXP evaluation kits, robotics reference designs, and BSP / SDK enablement, demonstrating end‑to‑end solutions for AMR, drone, and humanoid use cases.
• Lead technical training and project coordination across customers, business lines, and partners—running…