Summary of Role:

We are seeking a Field Application Engineer (NAM) to support and drive customer engagements with leading Industrial, Automotive, and Integrated Device Manufacturer (IDM) customers across North America. This is a customer-facing, technical individual contributor role, responsible for enabling design wins by bridging customer requirements with MIPS’ product portfolio, including processor IP, software tools and custom silicon solutions.

Essential Responsibilities:

Your Job Customer Technical Engagement

• Act as the primary technical interface for customers during pre-sales and early development phases
• Conduct customer presentations, architectural reviews and product demonstrations
• Support customer engineering teams in evaluating and adopting MIPS solutions
• Provide technical guidance on: Processor IP integration, Software toolchains and development environments and System architecture considerations

Design-In & Design Win Support

• Drive design-in activities at assigned customers and design houses
• Support technical discussions to secure design wins for: CPU IP licensing, custom silicon programs and software solutions. Assist customers in transitioning from evaluation to implementation.

Solution Enablement - Help Customers Understand and Implement MIPS’ Value Proposition

• Open RISC‑V architecture flexibility
• Multi-threaded, high-performance compute
• High-performance scalable Neural processors
• Functional safety-ready solutions
• Support system-level optimization for performance, power and cost

Collaboration with Sales & Business Development

• Partner with Business Development to support opportunity creation and closure
• Provide technical input to proposals, RFIs, and customer presentations
• Translate customer requirements into actionable feedback for product and engineering teams

Ecosystem & Market Support

• Support engagement with ecosystem partners (software, EDA, design services)
• Participate in customer workshops, demos, and industry events
• Help position MIPS solutions within the broader semiconductor ecosystem in NAM

Other Responsibilities:

• Perform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs. 

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in an engineering discipline or similar
• 10+ years in Field Application Engineering, Applications Engineering or Design Engineering
• Experience in Semiconductor IP, SoC/ASIC development, or embedded systems, Industrial, Automotive, or IDM electronics or related markets
• Proven track record supporting customer engagements and design wins
• Strong understanding of Industrial, automotive, or IDM electronic architectures (MCUs, SoCs, domain/zonal controllers)
• Familiarity with: Processor architectures, Embedded software development (compilers, SDKs, OS) and System-level design and integration
• Strong customer-facing communication and problem-solving skills
• Ability to operate independently in a field-based role
• Hands-on technical mindset with strong debugging capability
• Ability to bridge technical depth with customer business needs
• Fluent in English

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with RISC‑V ecosystem or CPU IP integration
• Prior experience supporting industrial, automotive, or IDM customers in North America
• Experience with SoC development and custom silicon implementation flows
• Understanding of functional safety standards or design requirements in Industrial & Automotive markets

Expected Salary Range

The exact Salary will be determined based on qualifications, experience and location.