Senior Field Application Engineer (FAE) - MPU & DNPU (f/m/d)

As a Senior FAE in NXP’s European robotics-focused team, you bridge customers’ AI and perception needs with NXP’s MPU/DNPU solutions. You influence system architecture from silicon selection to Linux bring-up, enabling on‑device inference for perception, navigation, and HMI. You work with Sales to secure design wins and drive AI-enabled edge deployments for drones. Your expertise accelerates customers’ robotics programs while advancing NXP’s edge‑compute leadership.

• Provide technical leadership on edge‑compute architecture, processor selection, bring‑up, and software stack integration for NXP MPU/DNPU platforms targeting robotics.
• Collaborate with customers to design companion computers, central compute, vision/subsystem and HMI nodes from silicon to OS bring‑up and performance tuning.
• Perform design support and lab troubleshooting including schematic reviews, bench bring‑up, debugging, and root‑cause analysis across hardware, kernel, drivers and middleware.
• Enable customer AI/vision/sensor‑fusion workloads on NXP processors for on‑device inference in perception, navigation, and HMI use cases.

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science
• 10+ years in embedded systems development or applications support of MPU/SoC platforms on embedded Linux with technical leadership
• Strong embedded Linux across bootloader, kernel, drivers, device tree, Yocto/build system, and user-space integration
• Proficiency in Python or scripting for tooling and automation
• Hands-on experience with ARM Cortex‑A and heterogeneous compute architectures
• Knowledge of high‑speed interfaces (LPDDR, PCIe, USB3.x, MIPI-CSI/DSI, Ethernet, SDIO/eMMC, QSPI)
• Excellent verbal and written communication for technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• Willingness to travel
• Fluent English required

• Strong communication with cross-functional teams
• Customer‑facing and collaborative mindset
• Problem solving and analytical thinking
• Embedded Linux full stack (u‑boot, kernel, device tree, Yocto)
• Python or scripting for tooling
• ARM Cortex‑A class processors and heterogeneous cores