Principal Applications Engineer at NXP Semiconductors in San Jose, California

Job Description:

NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ: NXPI) enables secure connections for a smarter world, advancing solutions that make lives easier, better, and safer. As the world leader in secure connectivity solutions for embedded applications, NXP is driving innovation in the automotive, industrial & IoT, mobile, and communication infrastructure markets. Built on more than 60 years of combined experience and expertise, the company has approximately 29,000 employees in more than 30 countries and posted revenue of $8.61 billion in 2020.

• Candidate will be working on NXP's Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/802.15.4 devices and Wireless Micro-controllers and will be closely working with NXP Customers, NXP Marketing, Field Application Engineers to promote NXP's offerings for Pre-sales opportunities, enable successful integration of NXP chips to Customer platforms and take up Post Sales activity support which includes debugging and resolving issues in device driver/firmware, resolve integration issues with Operating System and Customer application.


• Candidate would serve as a Lead on critical customer projects and be a single point of interface to the Customer and NXP Sales, Field Applications Engineers. Candidate will work with a Cross Functional team of Program Managers, Product Managers, R&D team to plan deliverables for the customer, take responsibility on customizing software (driver & firmware) and support customer to resolve issues.


• On a day to day basis, post-sales support tasks include reproducing Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/802.15.4 issues reported by customer on NXP reference platform, collect logs, come up with solid analysis and root-cause the issue by debugging in driver and firmware using tools like JTAG etc.


• Candidate will be involved in developing Product collateral like App Notes, User Guide, Datasheets, creating and presenting demos to demonstrate product value, learning from debugging/support experience and providing feedback to R&D teams, Product Managers to improve NXP solution offerings


• Percentage of Travel Required < 30%

Requirements

• Bachelors/Masters degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering


• 10 years of experience working in Semiconductor industry in Applications/Field-Applications/Software Development positions


• 5 years experience in SW development and programming in C/C++


• Experience using scripting languages like Python/Perl/Shell for automation/test setup


• Candidate should be process oriented and willing to take up responsibility for the success of a customer project from a Systems Engineer perspective working on support from pre-sales requirement stage to support bring up and post-sales/product launch..


• Effective in communicating with Cross Functional teams to get things done and motivated to get things resolved in high pressure situation/strict deadlines.

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.