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. In this senior role, working closely with the Key Account Managers, you will be the primary technical interface to system architects and system developers at our customers in Aerospace for advanced drone systems, providing your technical insights and coordinating those of Business Line experts/architects around NXP’s system solutions & products.

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.

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%).