Job#: 3059006 Job Description: Title: Field Embedded Linux Engineer - AI/Datacenter Focused
Duration: Full Time, Direct Hire
Pay: $130,000 - $200,000 w/ 10-30% Bonus and Full Benefits
Location: San Jose, CA or Austin, TX; 25% Travel to various U.S Client locations
Job Summary
Our client is seeking a highly motivated Senior Embedded AI Field Applications Engineer (FAE) to support strategic customers developing next-generation AI-enabled datacenter, intelligent infrastructure, and edge computing solutions. In this customer-facing role, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor, helping customers evaluate, design, integrate, and optimize NXP microprocessor and embedded AI solutions. As a key member of the Customer Application Support team, you will work closely with hyperscalers, cloud providers, AI infrastructure companies, and internal product teams to drive design wins, accelerate customer adoption, and influence future technology roadmaps. This position combines deep technical expertise in embedded systems and Linux with strong customer engagement skills, requiring the ability to lead technical discussions, develop proof-of-concepts, troubleshoot complex system issues, and demonstrate the value of NXP's processor and embedded AI portfolio. The ideal candidate brings extensive experience with ARM-based SoC platforms, Embedded Linux, system-level architecture, and customer-facing engineering support within the semiconductor or embedded systems industry. They are energized by emerging AI technologies, thrive in fast-paced environments, and enjoy helping customers solve challenging technical problems while driving business growth.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and application support to strategic datacenter, AI infrastructure, and cloud customers evaluating NXP MPU and Embedded AI solutions.
- Drive design-in and design-win activity by supporting customer evaluations, solution development, technical demonstrations, and product integration efforts.
- Develop proof-of-concepts, reference designs, and demonstrations showcasing NXP microprocessors, embedded AI capabilities, and intelligent edge solutions.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex hardware, software, and system-level issues across the embedded software stack.
- Support customer board bring-up, hardware validation, software integration, performance tuning, and production readiness activities.
- Design, develop, and debug embedded software running on ARM Cortex-A based platforms using Embedded Linux environments.
- Work closely with customers on Linux kernel, device tree, bootloader (U-Boot), middleware, drivers, and application-level software development.
- Provide technical guidance for high-speed interfaces including Ethernet, PCIe, USB, MIPI, UART, and LPDDR memory subsystems.
- Analyze schematics, review hardware designs, and recommend architectural improvements and debugging strategies.
- Collaborate with Business Lines, Product Management, Sales, and Engineering teams to gather customer requirements and influence future product roadmaps.
- Deliver technical presentations, workshops, training sessions, and hands-on demonstrations to customers, partners, distributors, and internal teams.
- Evaluate emerging Edge AI technologies, AI accelerators, inference frameworks, and model deployment workflows to enable customer success.
- Translate customer feedback, market requirements, and competitive insights into actionable recommendations for future products and solutions.
- Serve as the technical escalation point for customer issues and become a trusted advisor throughout the design lifecycle.
- Leverage AI-powered tools and modern engineering workflows to improve productivity, accelerate troubleshooting, and enhance customer engagement.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical discipline.
- 8+ years of experience developing, supporting, or deploying embedded software solutions on SoC-based platforms.
- Previous Field Applications Engineering, Customer Applications Engineering, or customer-facing technical support experience within the semiconductor, embedded systems, or related industries.
- Strong expertise with Embedded Linux development including Linux kernel, user-space applications, device trees, bootloaders (U-Boot), drivers, and system bring-up.
- Experience developing software in C and/or C++ within embedded environments.
- Strong understanding of ARM Cortex-A architectures and embedded processor fundamentals.
- Hands-on experience supporting custom hardware platforms, board bring-up, debugging, and system validation activities.
- Experience working with common embedded hardware interfaces and protocols such as Ethernet, PCIe, USB, MIPI, UART, LPDDR4, and LPDDR5.
- Ability to read, interpret, and review electronic schematics and provide hardware design recommendations.
- Strong system-level debugging and problem-solving skills spanning hardware, firmware, and software.
- Experience delivering technical presentations, customer training, and product demonstrations.
- Proven ability to communicate effectively with customers, engineering teams, and executive stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies quickly and adapt in a rapidly evolving technical environment.
- Willingness to travel up to 25% within the United States.
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