Senior Field Application Engineer (FAE) - MPU & DNPU – Robotics/Drones
On-siteMunich, Bavaria, Germany or Bucharest, București, Romania
Job Summary
Senior Field Application Engineer (FAE) for MPU & DNPU in Robotics/Drones at NXP. Lead technical interfaces to customer engineering teams, supporting edge-compute architecture, processor selection, Linux board bring-up, kernel/driver enablement, and system performance tuning for robotics platforms. Collaborate with sales to design companion computers, central compute, and perception subsystems; enable AI/ML workloads on NXP processors and NPUs for on-device inference in perception, navigation, and HMI use cases. Requirements include a Master’s degree in EE/CE/CS and 10+ years of embedded Linux experience with ARM Cortex-A, Yocto, and related toolchains; strong communication skills; willingness to travel.
Required Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Computer Science
- 10+ years in embedded systems development or applications support of MPU / SoC-based platforms running embedded Linux
- Strong embedded Linux experience across the full stack: bootloader (u-boot), kernel and device drivers, device tree, Yocto / build system, and user-space integration
- Working knowledge of Python or scripting for tooling and automation
- Hands-on experience with ARM Cortex-A class application processors and heterogeneous compute architectures
- Working knowledge of high-speed application-processor interfaces (LPDDR, PCIe, USB 3.x, MIPI-CSI / MIPI-DSI, Gigabit Ethernet, SDIO / eMMC, QSPI)
- Excellent verbal and written communication for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
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