Field Application Engineer, Chicago, IL
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Job overview
The Field Application Engineer enables customers to use Nordic technology and serves as a key technical resource for internal and external teams. The role supports customer product development, helps design Nordic solutions into customer applications, responds to technical inquiries, and develops customer relationships. It requires embedded software experience, wireless protocol knowledge, and experience connecting IoT devices with cloud services.
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Full job description
About the job You will be responsible for enabling customers to use Nordic technology in a variety of exciting applications. You will be a key technical resource for our internal and external teams.
Key responsibilities Create and present Nordic Semiconductor’s value proposition Understand the customer applications and use cases Work with Regional Sales Managers, distributors, and representatives to design-in Nordic solutions at customers Respond to technical inquiries and provide solutions in a timely manner technical expert in the Sales team Developing and owning key technical relationships with customers.
Qualification and skills BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or similar Minimum 4 years of embedded software development experience with an understanding of embedded hardware including digital and analog circuits Experience with ARM microcontrollers Minimum 2 years of successfully supporting customer product development Experience working with wireless protocols such as Bluetooth Low Energy, Wi-Fi, Thread, Zigbee, and cellular technologies Experience working with software to interface IoT devices with cloud software services such as AWS and Azure.
Personal Skills Strong customer communication skills in English, written and spoken Ability to work independently and as part of a team Ability to take ownership of assigned tasks and work with minimal supervision Ability to collaborate effectively with team members and other departments.
Working for Nordic
Working at Nordic, you will be inspired and supported to develop yourself. Our teams enjoy a professional and informal working environment. We value and encourage the continuous development of skills and expertise to the highest levels. We are proud of our Norwegian heritage, our highly skilled international workforce, and our world-leading innovation. We offer a variety of tasks and projects, and the possibility to work alongside some of the world’s most renowned experts within their field. We encourage our employees to question the established and innovate while expecting professionalism, commitment, and the will to learn.
Benefits
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Competitive salary with short- and long-term incentive plan
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Flexible working hours
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Medical insurance
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Family-friendly policies, insurances, and benefits
Practical details
- Location: Chicago, IL, USA
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How this job compares
Set against the 1,296 open Embedded Software Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Illinois median$116–170K/yr20 salary ranges
- US median$56–70/hr100 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 26 open Embedded Software Engineer jobs in Illinois and 1,296 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Embedded Software Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (1,074 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 561 of the 1,296 open Embedded Software Engineer jobs (43%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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