NXP Semiconductors N.V.

Senior Field Application Engineer

Shanghai (JingAn) Full time

Role Summary:  

This role will drive the design in and design win of our BLE products and connectivity solutions across Smart Car Access application. As a customer‑centric BLE FAE, you’ll support key auto Tier1 and OEM to solve the critical technical issues in customer product development lifecycle — from pre-sales promotion to hardware design, software development and mass‑production readiness. This role can offer hands-on lab experience, direct customer engagement, and cross-functional collaboration between customers, sales and R&D, enabling you to master cutting-edge technologies/solution, strengthen problem-solving skills and grow into a trusted expert in automotive car access industry.

 

Responsibilities:  

  • Responsible for delivering field technical support on NXP automotive BLE products/solutions in assigned China Tier1s/OEMs, with in-depth design assistance leveraging NXP technical resources (Product Line Specialist /Market Development Engineer/ Applications Support).
  • Proactively demonstrate NXP products/solutions to meet customer’s specification and conditions, propose customized solutions together with relative marketing/sales and technical expertise in team, and also influence PL roadmap based on customer feedback.
  • Establish good contact with Customer's technical team, tracking design-in projects progress with regular updates, will have to debug issues faced by the customer in Lab and field, will be required to suggest patches/workarounds for blocking customer issues.
  • Provide remote and on-site support for critical bug fix, system bring-up, and production readiness, conduct detailed SCH/PCB layout reviews to identify potential risks such as signal integrity, low power optimization, and BLE stack/profile adaptation.
  • Create high-quality technical collateral including application notes, troubleshooting guides, and training materials to enable customers and partners at scale.
  • Train DFAEs/DAE and customer engineers, assess technical capabilities, and ensure partners can independently resolve common issues and accelerate project timelines.

 

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline.
  • More than 3 years’ experience in embedded systems development and familiarity with common communication interfaces such as SPI, UART, I²C, CAN/CAN-FD and LIN. Strong understanding of ARM Cortex-M architecture, including exception handling, security boot, lowpower modes, good debug skill in embedded software development and basic RF/hardware capabilities.
  • Strong understanding of BLE protocol and ability to interpret BLE core specifications, experienced in using BLE protocol analyzers (Frontline/Ellisys) and standard lab instruments (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers).
  • Practical experience with embedded RTOS like FreeRTOS/ThreadX/Linux, have good debugger skills.
  • Good English skill in speaking and writing, documentation and reporting skills.
  • Energetic with passion, career wish in automotive industry, strong self-study capability.
  • Experience in productivity tools (AI tool, VScode, Git, Confluence, Jiara) (nice to have).
  • Knowledge of AI/ML algorithms applied to general localization application(nice-to-have).
  • Experience in BLE channel sounding, RSSI sniffing, handover, UWB, NFC are all good plus.


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