Principal Field Application Engineer - Automotive MCU
NXP Semiconductors3 months ago
Shanghai, ChinaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Provide on-site and remote technical support for Automotive MCU-based customer projects.
- Act as the primary technical interface during development, validation, and early production.
- Support BMS, body and zone controller, radio, audio, and selected infotainment applications.
- Assist with MCU bring-up, peripheral configuration, system integration, embedded debugging, and issue resolution.
- Coordinate technical escalations with internal AE, R&D, and product teams.
- Support customer understanding and integration of secure boot, secure communication, key management, and functional-safety concepts.
- Participate in customer design reviews, technical discussions, on-site debug sessions, workshops, and NPI activities.
- Maintain issue follow-up and documentation while relaying customer feedback to internal teams.
Requirements
- Requires 4–8 years of experience in automotive electronics, embedded systems, or customer-facing technical roles.
- Requires practical experience supporting customer projects rather than pure R&D ownership.
- Requires experience with Automotive MCU platforms, MCU peripherals, embedded software stacks, BSPs, and peripheral drivers.
- Familiarity with AUTOSAR Classic (CP), RTOS integration, embedded debugging tools, JTAG, trace, logging, and memory analysis is expected or preferred.
- Requires practical knowledge of at least one automotive domain: BMS or battery-related ECUs, body or zone controllers, or radio, audio, and infotainment systems.
- Requires system-level understanding of ECU hardware/software interaction and integration constraints.
- Requires basic understanding of automotive cybersecurity concepts, including secure boot, firmware authentication, secure communication, and system-level key and certificate usage.
- Requires awareness of Functional Safety and ISO 26262; deep security or safety concept design experience is not required.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with automotive OEMs or Tier-1 customers, Automotive Ethernet switches, time-sensitive networking concepts, system validation, or field issue troubleshooting.
- Requires strong communication, customer orientation, independent working ability, parallel project management, English proficiency, and willingness to travel domestically and internationally.
Benefits
- The role supports on-site and remote customer work, with domestic and international travel required when needed.
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About NXP Semiconductors
NXP Semiconductors designs and supplies microcontrollers, application processors (i.MX), analog/RF, secure connectivity, and automotive chips for OEMs in automotive, industrial/IoT, mobile, and communications infrastructure markets. A public company (NASDAQ: NXPI) founded in 2006 and headquartered in Eindhoven, it sells silicon, software, and reference designs, and supports customers with BSPs and development tools. Notable lines include i.MX processors, S32 automotive platforms, NFC and secure elements, radar, and power management devices.