Senior System Field Application Engineer (FAE) - Advanced Drones (f/m/d)

As part of the evolution of our System Field Application Engineer (FAE) team deployment, we have a need for someone to lead the system activities in aerospace with a focus on dual‑usage drones. The ideal candidate will bring expertise in drone system architecture, avionics, connectivity, autonomy, and mission system integration for dual‑usage drones, along with a semiconductor architecture or R&D background and hands‑on experience designing with components.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate System FAE activities and communications for advanced drone systems in Aerospace.
• Primary technical interface to drone system architects and system developers at our customers.
• Provide technical insight and support around NXP’s system solutions & products for drone platforms, avionics and mission systems.
• Propose NXP system solutions to meet customer requirements.
• Build Customer System knowledge, including emerging market/technology trends & requirements.
• Create system‑level trainings, application notes, white papers and brochures (internal & external).
• Translate customer and market needs into requirements for internal R&D HW and software organizations.
• Specify application use cases and performance targets for SoC modules and IP under development and make the right tradeoffs to lead the technical team.
• Collaborate with R&D engineering on specifications and implementation and with marketing, customers and partner teams on architectural specification concepts and details.
• Establish and develop strategic relationships with key engineering contacts up to management level at our customers.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, or similar required; Masters preferred.
• 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong understanding of relevant Aerospace & advanced drone systems, applications and semiconductor components.
• Ideally a mix of H/W & S/W skills in your given area of expertise.
• Strong customer engagement skills, with direct experience supporting Aerospace & specifically drone customers preferred.
• Ability to work at the system‑level, identifying optimal partitioning of solutions between HW and software.
• Comfortable working with the ambiguity inherent in implementing new technologies.
• Good written and verbal communication/presentation skills spanning technical contributors, business stakeholders, customers, and management. Information sharing, working as a team player and striving for clarity comes naturally to you.
• Willingness to travel (30%).