**Position Overview**As a MCU Field Application Engineer, you'll be one of the key players in the Customer Application Support team and part of a worldwide technical community providing premium technical support to NXP customers and their projects.
You drive demand creation and design-in activity at customer sites in close cooperation with the NXP business lines; you provide technical skills & support to NXP's sales staff and will work with the NXP technical community about technical issues and future roadmap of your customer(s).
We rely on you to deliver the NXP value message in a persuasive and accurate manner, in order to increase our market share.
**Key Responsibilities for the role**:- Deliver premium technical support in content and time to assigned customers- Accountable to drive design wins in target accounts- Lead proof of concept, solution design, and demonstrations to secure NXP solution's design-in- Synthesize customer and competitive insights to improve product definition and roadmaps- Direct the NXP design-in campaigns for assigned customers to ensure early involvement in the customer's technology roadmap and timely flow of information to all necessary parties within NXP and customer- Understand and communicate how ecosystem solutions can position NXP in the best possible manner- Qualify sales opportunities in terms of customer technical requirements and establishes NXP's value proposition/position relative to the competition- Qualify the value of NXP's products (strengths versus competitive products) and quantifies the technical benefits derived from choosing NXP- Own the system software architect role to ensure broader technical team understands the software value proposition for system proposals- Successfully build relationships with sales team members, business lines, partners and customers in support of sales team objectives- Analyze customer's technical objectives through the use of relevant data gathering techniques enabling the sales team to be more predictive, effective and responsive to customer needs- Assist in educating Field Sales Engineers on new technologies, new product features and their related business value**Essential Requirements**- Experience with C and C++ and a record of developing embedded firmware- Knowledge in the following driver interfaces: Ethernet, USB, IIC, I2S, SPI- Experience using Real-Time OS systems: FreeRTOS and Zephyr preferred- Strong understanding of ARM Cortex-M architectures- Ability to read, understand and review schematics and provide design recommendations highly desirable.- Willing to travel (up to 25%, mostly within Mexico, some Brazil and USA)- Languages: Spanish and English required, Portuguese helpful- Knowledge in wireless protocols WiFi, ZigBee, BLE, etc.