Automotive Processor Field Application Engineer Intern - Summer 2025
Job Summary
As a 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.
As an AP Field Applications Engineer you will drive design wins for NXP’s Automotive Processor products, identify opportunities, recommend appropriate solutions leveraging NXP architectures, support customer evaluations, and resolve any product issues that may arise in the customer's system.
Responsibilities
You will be paired with a senior FAE team member to develop solutions to issues at NXP’s largest automotive customers
In addition you will contribute to the development of firmware, demos and all materials enhancing our product offering to our customers:
- build application / demos / drivers with one of the members of the Automotive Processor family
- build innovative functions or use case demonstrators in all relevant applications fields: connectivity, controls, machine learning, etc.
- evaluate NXP and 3rd party customer enablement solutions for efficiency and ease-of-use
- build reference designs in various strategic domains and development of application notes and white papers
- review Reference Manuals and Data Sheets and contribute to Developer guides
Job Qualifications
Specific Knowledge/Skills
- Must be pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science.
- Must have completed freshman level coursework or greater.
- Must have a strong level of proficiency in the C language
The ideal candidate will also have experience in one or more of the following:
- Experience with embedded Systems on Chip, especially the ARM Cortex architecture.
- Embedded software development and debug experience including one of more of the following: Linux, kernel modules, device drivers and real-time OS
- Experience with embedded software development and debug
- Technical writing skills for creating application notes, white papers, and user’s guides / reference manuals.