Wireless Connectivity Field Applications Engineer (FAE) at NXP Semiconductors in San Jose, California

Job Description:

Job Summary

As a Field Application Engineer, you’ll be one of the key players in the Customer Application Support (CAS) team and part of a worldwide technical community providing premium technical support to NXP customers and their projects. 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 and will work with the NXP technical community about technical issues and future roadmap of your customer(s). We rely on you to deliver the NXP value message in a persuasive and accurate manner, in order to increase our market share.

As a Wireless Connectivity Field Applications Engineer you will drive design wins for NXP’s Wi-Fi, BT and 802.15.4 (Thread, Zigbee) solutions, identify opportunities, recommend appropriate solutions leveraging NXP architectures, support customer evaluations, and resolve any product issues that may arise in the customer's system. 

Responsibilities

• Accountable to drive design wins in target automotive accounts


• Lead proof of concept, solution design, and demonstrations to secure NXP solution’s design-in


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


• Direct the NXP design-in campaigns for assigned customers to ensure early involvement in the customer’s technology roadmap and timely flow of information to all necessary parties within NXP and customer


• Understand and communicate how ecosystem solutions can position NXP in the best possible manner


• Qualify sales opportunities in terms of customer technical requirements and establishes NXP's value proposition/position relative to the competition


• Qualify the value of NXP's products (strengths versus competitive products) and quantify the technical benefits derived from choosing NXP


• Own the system software architect role to ensure broader technical team understands the software value proposition for system proposals


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


• Analyze customer's technical objectives through the use of relevant data gathering techniques enabling the sales team to be more predictive, effective and responsive to customer needs


• Assist in educating Field Sales Engineers on new technologies, new product features and their related business value

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree (preferred) in Electrical or Computer Engineering


• 5-10 years of field application or design engineering experience focused on supporting wireless connectivity solutions such as Wi-Fi and BT.


• Experience in working at customer sites for debug and technical support


• Proven record of developing hardware and software in various embedded environments and OSes.


• Expert in Wi-Fi & BT specs, software and interoperability testing.


• Willing to travel up to 25%


• Experience in providing technical training to customers, internal sales staff and distributors


• Proven track record of quickly learning new technologies


• System level understanding of target end-applications.


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

Mandatory and specific expertise

The candidate will be an FAE in the Americas region supporting NXP’s wireless connectivity products and solutions.

The following skills are mandatory requirements:

• Experience as an FAE or design engineer supporting the above technologies


• Willingness to engage with customers in both pre-sales and post-sales support, and a proven successful track record in both.


• Excellent communication and presentation skills. Strong customer presence.


• Demonstrated knowledge in driver interfaces like PCIe, SDIO, USB, I2C, I2S, SPI, UART, etc.


• Expertise in Wi-Fi and BT protocols and software stacks


• Demonstrated success in debugging challenging wireless connectivity interoperability issues.


• Familiarity with evaluation board deployment

The base salary range for this position is as mentioned below per year. We also provide competitive benefits, incentive compensation, and/or equity for certain roles.
Company benefits include health. dental, and vision insurance. 401(k), and paid leave. Please note that the base salary range (OR hourly rate) is a guideline, and individual total compensation may vary based on a number of factors such as qualifications, skill level, work location, and other business and organizational needs. This base pay range is specific to California and is not applicable to other locations. A reasonable estimate of the base salary range as of the date of this posting is:

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