Automotive Analog Field Applications Engineer

As a Field Applications Engineer (FAE) in NXP’s Automotive Sales team, you will be part of a worldwide technical and marketing community that works closely with our customers. You will help drive demand creation and design-in activity at customer sites by closely cooperating with NXP sales account management and NXP business lines to provide system insights, product technical knowledge and application support. You will collaborate with internal and external customers to create NXP product roadmaps that resolve our customers’ technical and product challenges, and to feedback future customer requirements. We expect you to communicate the NXP value message in a persuasive and accurate manner, to increase our market share and satisfy our customers.

As an Analog Field Applications Engineer your emphasis will be to help drive design wins for NXP’s automotive vehicle electrification products and adjacent supporting technology solutions, identify opportunities, recommend appropriate solutions leveraging NXP architectures, support customer evaluations, and help resolve any product issues that may arise in the customer's system. You will provide and facilitate, with the business lines, post-sale application support to our customers. You will be part of an experienced, high performing Analog FAE team that is based in our Novi MI Automotive Sales and FAE office.

Responsibilities:

• Work with sales team members, business lines and customers in support of sales team objectives to capture new business opportunities.
• Compile target systems, customers, and competitive insights as input to improve product definition and roadmaps.
• Develop relationships with key customer engineers with goal of being trusted advisor.
• Drive adoption of NXP automotive electrification and adjacent supporting products with our customers.
• Manage trouble shooting and technical support to customers as needed.
• Facilitate technical discussions between customer, business lines and second line technical support team.
• Develop technical material and training presentations and present at customer events.
• Manage demo properties and engage customers, at technical events, creating interest in NXP products and solutions.
• Drive technical discussions with customers to understand use cases and system level requirements and how those impact component level requirements.
• Feedback regional market trends and customer direction to responsible business line.
• Educate sales teams about our electrification portfolio and system implementations.

Key Attributes:

• MS or BS Degree in Electrical Engineering.
• A minimum of 3 years of experience in automotive or relevant electronics applications.
• Experience in product design, systems engineering and/or field application engineering.
• Experience in the areas of High Voltage Battery Management Systems, Traction Inverter implementation and control systems and products, and high-power electronics.
• Experience with general microcontroller programming and communication protocols (e.g., SPI, I2C...)
• Experience with standard build, programming, and debug tools.
• Familiarity with system Functional Safety standards and implementations (ISO26262).
• Familiarity with power management products.
• Familiarity with various power, analog and sensor electronics products.
• Familiarity with automotive communications devices and protocols (e.g., CAN, LIN, Ethernet...).
• Strong analytical, problem solving and follow-up skills.
• Capable of establishing open and trusting relationships with customers and colleagues.
• High degree of self-motivation, flexibility, business and organizing skills, with the drive to succeed.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills in English.
• Excellent recognition and collaboration skills to leverage extended team expertise when appropriate.
• Willingness and ability to travel.

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NXP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, NXP will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.