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
$145,000.00 - $236,000.00
The exact Salary will be determined based on qualifications, experience and location.
