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NXP Semiconductors

Senior MPU and Embedded AI FAE - Healthcare/Industrial Focus - Remote

NXP Semiconductors United States 17 days ago
Applications & FAE

Originally posted 24 September 2026 by the employer.

About the role

This role involves driving demand creation and design-in activity for MPU and Embedded AI solutions at customer sites, focusing on the Healthcare and Industrial application spaces.

What you'll do

  • Deliver premium technical support to assigned customers.
  • Drive design wins and revenue generation in target accounts and technology.
  • Lead proof of concept, solution design, and demonstrations to secure NXP solution's design-in.
  • Synthesize customer and competitive insights to improve product definition, system solutions enablement, and roadmaps.
  • Collaborate with sales team members, business lines, and partners to support customer and sales team objectives.
  • Assist in training customers, sales, and distribution partners on new technologies and product features.

What you'll need

  • Bachelor's/Master's Degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering and minimum 6+ years development engineering or applications support of SoC based embedded systems.
  • Field Application Engineering experience in the semiconductor industry.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of typical SoC hardware interfaces (Ethernet, MIPI, UART, LPDDR4 or LPDDR5, PCIe) and ARM Cortex A, Cortex M, heterogeneous architecture and register programming models.
  • Hands on experience in embedded Linux: kernel and user-space and uboot environments.
  • Strong embedded software skillset for implementation of system processor solutions.
  • Ability to read, understand, and review schematics and provide design recommendations.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with Embedded Edge AI Model architecture, Workflow Tools and Model deployment.
  • Hands on knowledge of camera enabled graphics/video pipelines and related software drivers.
  • Experience with custom board bring-up debug activities.

Skills: Field Application Engineer, customer sites, design-in activity, technical support, embedded AI

Market context

This role has been open 16 days — well below the 94-day median for Applications FAE roles.

Applications FAE · Automotive IC

Open roles in category
149
Median days open
94 d
Median salary
$152k
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How NXP Semiconductors compares in Applications FAE hiring
Metric NXP Semiconductors All employers we track in this specialty (149 roles · 27 employers)
Open roles in this specialty 25 149
Median days open 88 d 94 d (−6 d vs this employer)
Median salary (USD postings) — $152k

Skills observed across this category: Field Application Engineer, customer sites, design-in activity, technical support, embedded AI

Who's hiring in this category

  • Infineon Technologies · 34 open roles · median 80 d
  • NXP Semiconductors (this employer) · 26 open roles · median 90 d
  • Texas Instruments · 16 open roles · median 227 d
  • Microchip Technology · 10 open roles · median 202 d
  • Renesas Electronics · 10 open roles · median 115 d
  • Qualcomm · 8 open roles · median 25 d

How we counted: 149 open Applications FAE (Automotive IC) roles from 27 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there. Figures refresh nightly.

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United States
Remote
17 days ago

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