Senior Director, Global Applications Engineering

Responsibilities

• This role sets the direction for how customers experience our automotive microprocessor platforms from evaluation through deployment.
• You translate strategy into execution, guide the global organization’s focus and ways of working, and ensure software, tools, and AI-enabled workflows differentiate the platform beyond silicon.
• You stay close to customers, drive alignment across functions, and make disciplined decisions that improve customer success, scalability, and business impact.

The opportunity

NXP is seeking a senior leader to define and elevate the customer experience for automotive microprocessor platforms in a software-defined and AI-driven era. Reporting to the General Manager and serving on the senior leadership team, this Applications Engineering Manager will lead a global organization focused on helping customers evaluate, adopt, and deploy products faster and more effectively. The role combines transformational leadership with day-to-day customer responsibility, shaping how software, tools, and AI-enabled workflows define the platform experience beyond silicon while ensuring critical customer issues are handled with urgency and discipline.

Your responsibilities

Set and communicate a clear strategy for the customer and developer experience. · Own the technical customer journey from evaluation through deployment, ensuring a differentiated experience. · Drive alignment across global engineering, product, and customer-facing teams to deliver a consistent experience worldwide. · Turn customer insights, support trends, and integration pain points into clear engineering priorities. · Make disciplined decisions that balance customer value, business impact, and long-term platform success. Candidate Profile · Proven leader of large, multi-disciplinary engineering organizations. · Embedded systems expertise spanning hardware, software, and system architecture. · Strong software background with modern development, integration, and debugging experience. · Strategic thinker who converts ambiguity into clear direction and execution. · Exceptional critical thinker with strong judgment and problem-solving skills. · Customer-obsessed leader with experience managing complex technical engagements and escalations. · Influential stakeholder manager able to align engineering, product, sales, and executive leadership. · Commercially aware, balancing customer needs, technical investment, and business outcomes. · Experience in automotive semiconductors, SDV platforms, or complex embedded compute systems. · Track record driving transformation in developer experience, software enablement, and AI-powered engineering. More information about NXP in the United States... NXP is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, NXP will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals. #LI-97b2