Americas Customer Application Support Internship Summer 2026

AI is rapidly moving beyond research labs and into the real worldpowering advancements in vehicles factories hospitals homes and everyday devices. NXPs 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 realworld AI secure edge intelligence and breakthrough technologies to the customers shaping tomorrows 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 longterm collaboration we embed customercentricity into every decision and help accelerate innovation at the systemsolution level. This disciplined clientfirst mindset enables us to architect integrated futureready solutions that deliver sustained value and strengthen NXPs competitive thrive in a highperformance highownership environmentcompeting boldly executing with urgency and celebrating results. If you want to win big grow fast and work with the customers building whats next NXP Global Sales is where ambition becomes achievement.

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled engineer to join our Customer Application Support team! In this critical role youll collaborate with a wide variety of customers to enable the integration of cutting-edge silicon technology into the future of robotics data centers smart IoT devices and automotive electrical systems. You will join a diverse and enthusiastic team that values innovation transparent communication and teamworkworking together to develop advanced software and hardware solutions for connected environments across multiple sectors.

Apply now and lets build something amazing together!

Your Role

• Support embedded software and system bring-up
  • Assist with prototyping debugging and testing on evaluation boards and bench setups
  • Support software bring-up activities such as building/running examples basic porting and creating small proof-of-concepts
  • Help investigate issues by collecting logs reproducing problems and documenting findings for the team
  • Collaborate with cross-functional team members and track tasks to completion with guidance from a mentor
  • Create clear documentation (setup notes test results short how-tos) and help with internal knowledge sharing
• Learn from customer use cases: shadow customer interactions and help prepare technical materials (slides demos FAQs) that support customer success
• Training and mentorship: receive structured onboarding mentorship from experienced engineers and opportunities to grow your skills through real projects
• Collaboration: work closely with FAEs and partner teams (R&D marketing sales) to deliver customer-focused solutions and learn best practices

Core Requirements

• Currently pursuing a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Science or related field
• Experience with embedded systems through coursework personal projects labs or prior internships
• Programming experience in C and/or C (Python a plus)
• Exposure to common hardware/software interfaces (e.g. UART SPI I2C) and interest in learning more
• Strong communication skills and comfort explaining technical topics to teammates
• Curiosity and a hands-on approach to debugging (reading logs using basic lab tools and following a structured problem-solving process)
• Availability to work onsite in Novi MI

Bonus Skills (Nice to Have)

• Familiarity with ARM Cortex-M/Cortex-A concepts
• Exposure to an RTOS (e.g. FreeRTOS Zephyr) through classes or projects
• Basic familiarity with Linux development environments
• Interest in automotive electronics (coursework or projects a plus)
• Customer-facing mindset (enjoys helping others troubleshoot and learn)

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 addition NXP will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.