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Senior FAE Microprocessors (MPU) Home Based, Must live in EASTERN US

NXP Semiconductors


Job Location:

Austin, TX - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 3 September 2026 (10 days ago)
Application Deadline: 1 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

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

Position Overview

As a MPU Field Application Engineer based in the Eastern U.S. youll be one of the key contributor 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 NXPs 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.

Global Sales Introduction

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.

Key Responsibilities for the role:

  • 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 solutions design-in

  • Synthesizes customer and competitive insights to improve product definition and roadmaps

  • Establishes the value proposition of NXPs system solutions relative to competition

  • Successfully builds relationships with sales team members business lines partners and customers in support of sales team objectives

  • Analyzes customers 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

Key Success Attributes

  • Masters the fundamental mechanics of the sales call

  • Ability to influence and communicate the value of NXPs 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 companys 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

Essential Requirements

  • Bachelors/Masters 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 MIPI SDIO LP DDR4 5 Quad/Octal SPI USB ) and ARM Cortex A and M based register programming models.

  • Hands on knowledge of graphics and video subsystems and related software drivers helpful

  • Familiarity with Embedded Edge AI Concepts Tools and Model deployment is a plus

  • Hands on experience in embedded Linux: kernel and user-space and uboot environments

  • Ability to read understand and review schematics and provide design recommendations essential

  • Experience with custom board bring-up debug activities recommended

  • Willing to travel for customer meetings trainings

  • Experienced in providing technical training to sales staff and distribution

  • Proven track record of quickly learning new technologies

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.

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