Field Application Engineer – Radar System (Automotive Radar)

Location: USA (home based), Midwest, US; customer-site work and up to 50% travel required.

Company

hirify.global develops semiconductor and intelligent-edge technologies for applications including vehicles, factories, hospitals, homes, and connected devices.

What you will do

• Provide pre-sales technical leadership for 77GHz radar system architecture, silicon selection, hardware bring-up, and protocol stack integration.
• Support customer radar-system designs through schematic and PCB reviews, bench bring-up, debugging, tracing, root-cause analysis, and troubleshooting.
• Deliver on-site and remote proof-of-concept builds using NXP evaluation kits.
• Lead technical training through webinars, workshops, and internal alignment sessions.
• Coordinate projects across stakeholders, manage timelines, and document deliverables.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or an equivalent field.
• At least 3 years of experience with RTOS on ARM cores, embedded C development, and IDE tools.
• Understanding of ADAS perception, sensor fusion, classification, and path planning.
• Experience bringing up customer radar hardware and integrating associated software.
• Experience with MCU/MPU debugging and tracing tools such as Lauterbach, plus interfaces including QSPI boot, MIPI CSI, Ethernet, and DDR.
• Strong communication and troubleshooting skills, including work with oscilloscopes, network analyzers, and technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Previous experience as a Field Application Engineer or in a similar customer-facing technical role.

Culture & Benefits

• Home-based role with a combination of remote and customer-site work.
• Up to 50% business travel.
• Work within NXP’s Global Sales organization at the intersection of customer requirements and system-level semiconductor solutions.