Senior Director, Global Applications Engineering

About the role

NXP is looking for a senior leader to define and elevate the customer experience for automotive microprocessor platforms in a software-defined, AI-driven era. Reporting to the General Manager and sitting on the senior leadership team, the Applications Engineering Manager leads a global organization that helps customers evaluate, adopt and deploy products faster and more effectively. The role combines transformational leadership with day-to-day customer responsibility.

Key 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 so the experience is consistent 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.

Required 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.
• Experience in automotive semiconductors, SDV platforms or complex embedded compute systems.
• Track record driving transformation in developer experience, software enablement and AI-powered engineering.
• Influential stakeholder manager able to align engineering, product, sales and executive leadership.