Position: Senior Microprocessor (MPU) Field Application Engineer
Company: NXP
Location: Woburn, MA (outside of Boston, MA) or Austin, TX - hybrid onsite 3 days a week traveling to customer sites and NXP lab. or
Pay Rate: $165,000 - $185,000
Duration: PERM
Start Date: ASAP
Interview Process: 3 rounds - INTERVIEW TIMES FOR NEXT WEEK
Job Description:
As a MPU Field Application Engineer you'll be one of the key contributors in the Customer Application Support team supporting designs in Infrastructure(digital networking) and Industrial application spaces. You drive demand creation and design-in activity at customer sites in close cooperation with the business lines; you provide technical skills & support the sales staff by driving resolution of technical issues and identifying future roadmap needs of your customer(s). We rely on you to deliver the value message in a persuasive and accurate manner to increase our market share.
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 solution's design-in
Synthesize customer and competitive insights to improve product definition and roadmaps
Establish the value proposition of NXP's system solutions relative to competition
Successfully build relationships with sales team members, business lines, partners and customers in support of sales team objectives
Analyze customer's technical objectives using relevant data gathering techniques enabling the sales team to be more productive, effective and responsive to customer needs
Assist in educating sales and distribution partners on new technologies, new product features and their related business value
Develop 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 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
Qualifications:
Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
With a minimum 3-5 years development engineering or applications support of SoC based embedded systems
Demonstrated knowledge of some of these typical hardware interfaces (Ethernet, PCie, SDIO, Modern DDR, SPI, MIPI, USB) on PowerPC or ARM Cortex A,M microprocessors
Hands on knowledge of ethernet Datapath acceleration or graphics/video subsystems and related software drivers helpful
Knowledge in embedded Linux: kernel and user-space and uboot environments
Ability to read, understand and review schematics and provide design recommendations essential
Ability to take complex SoC system behavior, distill key information and apply methodical debug steps to diagnose and resolve customer issues. Proficient in using JTAG based tools.
Experience with custom board bring-up debug activities recommended
Willing to travel for customer meetings, development support, trainings.
Plusses:
Andriod subsystems
Industrial networking experience / high speed data networking experiene.
Industrial factory automation customers such as Rockwell Automation.
Experience in- motor control, machine learning, power, or system design