Secure Car Access Software FAE

Automotive Secure Car Access Software Field Application Engineer

Company Description

NXP Semiconductors enables secure connections and infrastructure for a smarter world, advancing

solutions that make lives easier, better and safer. As the world leader in secure connectivity solutions for

embedded applications, we are driving innovation in the secure connected vehicle, end-to-end security &

privacy and smart connected solutions markets.

Business Unit Description

NXP Global Sales & Marketing (GSM) is the Go-to-Market organization for NXP’s business units. We own

the customer relationships and thus ensures customers’ needs are met and NXP growth ambitions are

achieved by identifying and creating opportunities for customers to innovate in focused markets using

NXP’s diverse product portfolio.

Job Summary

As a Software Field Applications Engineer, you’ll be one of the key players in NXP’s Automotive Sales team and part of a worldwide technical and marketing community working closely with NXP colleagues and our customers. You will provide system insights, product technical knowledge & application support to NXP’s sales staff. You will work closely with the NXP technical community about technical issues, product roadmaps and future customer requirements. We expect you to communicate the NXP value message in a persuasive and accurate manner, in order to increase our market share and satisfy our customers.

As a Secure Car Access Software Field Applications Engineer your emphasis will be to help drive, and implement, design wins for NXP’s Automotive UWB, BLE, NFC, Secure Elements and adjacent supporting RF technologies solutions. You will be expected to provide and facilitate, with the business lines, post-sale application support to our customers.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Work with sales team members, business lines and customers in support of sales team objectives to capture new business opportunities.
• Develop relationships with key customer engineers with goal of being trusted advisor.
• Drive adoption of NXP Secure Car Access and adjacent supporting products at customers.
• Assist in the integration and debugging of NXP reference software in customer designs.
• Develop software, tools, and documentation to demonstrate that NXP solution can meet customer application requirements.
• Provide strong technical expertise supporting design-in activities (up to 50% On-Site presence).
• Assist customers in evaluation of silicon and software
• Support customer software, hardware and schematic reviews
• Assist Customer and Quality team in product debug and failure analysis
• Assess the NXP product offerings and plans to assist in generation of collateral to identify device/system-level differentiation from competition.
• Compile target system, customer and competitive insights as input to improve product definition and roadmaps

Key Attributes:

• MS or BS Degree in Electrical Engineering.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in automotive or relevant electronics applications.
• Experience in product design, software development, systems engineering and/or field application engineering.
• Experience in the areas of UWB, BLE, NFC and Secure Elements technologies and/or Car Access Wireless products.
• Experience with general embedded programming in C.
• Experience with general microcontroller programming and communication protocols (e.g., SPI, I2C, UART..)
• Experience with standard build, programming and debug tools. (e.g. Lauterbach, Keil and Trace32 preferred)
• Experience with advanced build, programming and simulation tools. (e.g. Python, JLink and Matlab preferred)
• Experience with cryptographic algorithms and protocols. (e.g. AES, ECC SHA2-256 32 preferred)
• Experience with AutoSar and MCALs as well as NXP specifically used interfaces beneficial. (e.g. JCShell, Teraterm…)
• 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.

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.