Senior FAE - Microprocessors; MPU Home Based, live in EASTERN

Location

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

As a MPU Field Application Engineer, based in the Eastern U.S., you’ll be one of the key contributors 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.

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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,…