Staff/Principal Software Engineer – AI Applications

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Netherlands.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the comprehensive technical strategy for a significant component of the Voyager SDK application layer.

• Convert research papers, open-source projects, and product specifications into a strategic plan for model deployment, pipeline development, and application integration.

• Establish the technical direction for image pre/post-processing operators and decoders.

• Develop reusable architectures and collaborate with the compiler team on complex compilation challenges.

• Lead the integration of industry-standard model frameworks into the SDK.

• Specify reusable libraries and architecture for low-code and no-code model and dataset deployment.

• Define company-wide metadata standards for model types, including bounding boxes and keypoints.

• Manage libraries for assessing deployed model accuracy and visually rendering inference results on Axelera AI hardware.

• Be accountable for pipeline latency and throughput across various supported hardware platforms.

• Identify bottlenecks and create profiling tools and frameworks to diagnose performance issues.

• Represent the Applications team’s technical capabilities to business stakeholders, clients, and the industry.

• Mentor and cultivate the skills of engineers.

• Promote documentation standards and best practices throughout the team.

• Help define the Applications team’s technical roadmap in collaboration with commercial and product stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.

• Typically over 8 years of hands-on experience in the semiconductor and/or AI sectors.

• In-depth, hands-on knowledge of edge deployment frameworks like OpenVINO or TensorRT.

• Familiarity with GPU computing APIs such as OpenCL and Vulkan.

• Proven experience in applying quantization, compression, and pruning techniques.

• Expert-level AI application development skills using Python.

• Extensive experience with machine learning libraries such as PyTorch and TensorFlow.

• Advanced proficiency in both Python and C++.

• Capability to architect, build, and deploy end-to-end pipelines utilizing quantized models at scale.

• Experience in creating reusable frameworks.

• Background in training models using transfer learning.

• Familiarity with MLIR and ONNXRuntime is a plus.

• Strong technical judgment under pressure when facing complex, multi-dimensional problems.

• Excellent communication and influencing abilities.

• Proven experience handling high-stakes discussions with senior technical and business stakeholders.

• Experience in representing technical work to customers or industry stakeholders.

• Experience in mentoring and developing junior engineers.

• Proficient in Linux.

• Practical understanding of agile development practices using Jira, Git, and GitHub.

• Self-driven and capable of establishing technical direction with considerable autonomy.

• Ability to succeed in a fast-paced, collaborative startup culture.

🏝️ Benefits

• Pension plan.

• Comprehensive employee insurance options.

• Opportunity to acquire company shares.

• Flexible working arrangements.

• Remote work from any European country, including the UK.

• Relocation assistance to Italy or the Netherlands.

• Open culture that encourages creativity and ongoing innovation.

• Collaborative ownership and freedom accompanied by responsibility.

• Equal-opportunity and inclusive work environment.