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Sr. Staff Embedded Applications Engineer, TinyML Lab

Renesas Electronics · Columbia, MARYLAND · On-site

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About Renesas Electronics

Renesas is one of the top global semiconductor companies in the world. We strive to develop a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter world, and our goal is to make every endpoint intelligent by offering product solutions in the automotive, industrial,...

About the role

The Renesas AIoT Center of Excellence in Columbia, MD (formerly Reality AI) is seeking a hands-on Senior Staff Edge AI Applications Engineer to lead our physical Edge AI Applications Lab. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • Education: M.S. or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Applied Physics, or a related technical discipline. (BSEE with extensive, demonstrable lab leadership experience will also be evaluated)
More about this role

Head Our Edge AI Prototyping Lab. Build Physical Rigs. Deploy TinyML on Silicon.

The Renesas AIoT Center of Excellence in Columbia, MD (formerly Reality AI) is seeking a hands-on Senior Staff Edge AI Applications Engineer to lead our physical Edge AI Applications Lab.

In this role, you will head our physical lab facility, direct R&D and proof-of-concept (PoC) hardware builds, manage project scheduling, and mentor junior engineers. You will operate at the exact intersection of small-scale physical fabrication, digital signal processing (DSP), C/C++ embedded firmware, and microcontroller-level TinyML deployment.

You will lead the end-to-end execution of non-visual sensing solutions - instrumenting physical hardware setups (industrial motors, automotive systems, consumer devices), collecting high-frequency time-series sensor data, building custom DSP pipelines, and optimizing tiny machine learning models to run on Renesas silicon.

Are you a Senior Embedded Engineer or Applied Physicist who thrives in a physical lab environment building custom sensor rigs, soldering prototype boards, and squeezing machine learning models onto microcontrollers?

  • This is a physical lab leadership and...

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