Senior Field Application Engineer - BLE

Posted:
3/4/2026, 9:40:04 AM

Location(s):
Huangpu District, China

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Global Sales Introduction :

AI is rapidly moving beyond research labs and into the real world—powering advancements in vehicles, factories, hospitals, homes, and everyday devices. NXP’s Global Sales organization is the force that transforms our intelligent edge vision into meaningful market impact. We operate on the front lines of innovation, delivering real‑world AI, secure edge intelligence, and breakthrough technologies to the customers shaping tomorrow’s world. As a strategic partner at the intersection of customer ambition and NXP capability, our global sales team drives alignment, opens new markets, and builds the relationships that lead to design wins and revenue growth. Through deep market insight and long‑term collaboration, we embed customer‑centricity into every decision and help accelerate innovation at the system‑solution level. This disciplined, client‑first mindset enables us to architect integrated, future‑ready solutions that deliver sustained value and strengthen NXP’s competitive advantage. We thrive in a high‑performance, high‑ownership environment—competing boldly, executing with urgency, and celebrating results. If you want to win big, grow fast, and work with the customers building what’s next, NXP Global Sales is where ambition becomes achievement.

Role Summary:  

This role will drive the design in and design win of our BLE products and connectivity solutions across Smart Car Access application. As a customer‑centric BLE FAE, you’ll support key auto Tier1 and OEM to solve the critical technical issues in customer product development lifecycle — from pre-sales promotion to hardware design, software development and mass‑production readiness. This role can offer hands-on lab experience, direct customer engagement, and cross-functional collaboration between customers, sales and R&D, enabling you to master cutting-edge technologies/solution, strengthen problem-solving skills and grow into a trusted expert in automotive car access industry.

 

Responsibilities:  

  • Responsible for delivering field technical support on NXP automotive BLE products/solutions in assigned China Tier1s/OEMs, with in-depth design assistance leveraging NXP technical resources (Product Line Specialist /Market Development Engineer/ Applications Support).
  • Proactively demonstrate NXP products/solutions to meet customer’s specification and conditions, propose customized solutions together with relative marketing/sales and technical expertise in team, and also influence PL roadmap based on customer feedback.
  • Establish good contact with Customer's technical team, tracking design-in projects progress with regular updates, will have to debug issues faced by the customer in Lab and field, will be required to suggest patches/workarounds for blocking customer issues.
  • Provide remote and on-site support for critical bug fix, system bring-up, and production readiness, conduct detailed SCH/PCB layout reviews to identify potential risks such as signal integrity, low power optimization, and BLE stack/profile adaptation.
  • Create high-quality technical collateral including application notes, troubleshooting guides, and training materials to enable customers and partners at scale.
  • Train DFAEs/DAE and customer engineers, assess technical capabilities, and ensure partners can independently resolve common issues and accelerate project timelines.

 

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Engineering, or related discipline.
  • More than 3 years’ experience in embedded systems development and familiarity with common communication interfaces such as SPI, UART, I²C, CAN/CAN-FD and LIN. Strong understanding of ARM Cortex-M architecture, including exception handling, security boot, lowpower modes, good debug skill in embedded software development and basic RF/hardware capabilities.
  • Strong understanding of BLE protocol and ability to interpret BLE core specifications, experienced in using BLE protocol analyzers (Frontline/Ellisys) and standard lab instruments (oscilloscopes, logic analyzers).
  • Practical experience with embedded RTOS like FreeRTOS/ThreadX/Linux, have good debugger skills.
  • Good English skill in speaking and writing, documentation and reporting skills.
  • Energetic with passion, career wish in automotive industry, strong self-study capability.
  • Experience in productivity tools (AI tool, VScode, Git, Confluence, Jiara) (nice to have).
  • Knowledge of AI/ML algorithms applied to general localization application(nice-to-have).
  • Experience in BLE channel sounding, RSSI sniffing, handover, UWB, NFC are all good plus.


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