(Italy based) Senior Embedded AI Applications Engineer Lisboa

(Italy based) Senior Embedded AI Applications Engineer
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

About Us

Axelera AI is not your regular
- tech startup. We are creating the
- generation AI platform to support anyone who wants to help advancing humanity and improve the world around us.

In just three years, we have raised a total of $120 million and have built a
- class team of 180+ employees (including 55+ Ph
Ds with more than 40, 000 citations), both remotely from 11 different countries and with offices in Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, the UK, headquartered at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

We have also launched our Metis AI Platform, which achieves a 3-5x increase in efficiency and performance, and have visibility into a strong business pipeline exceeding $100 million.

Our unwavering commitment to innovation has firmly established us as a global industry pioneer.

Are you up for the challenge?

Position Overview

The Applications team develops the
- facing components of Axelera AI’s Voyager SDK, including
- code model deployment,
-
- end pipeline development and application integration and analytics. Customers use these tools to quickly evaluate, prototype and build complete production AI solutions accelerated by Axelera AI devices. The Applications team develops
- edge development tools with simple APIs that ensure the solutions deployed by our customers reach the highest levels of performance and accuracy available in the market.

We are seeking skilled and innovative software engineers to help us scale the product to support a wider range of models, pipelines and
- customer use cases. This is a challenging but rewarding role which can cover a variety of tasks such as compiling
- level graphical representations of ML-based pipelines, optimizing memory usage and synchronization on heterogeneous hardware targets and writing
- level implementations of computer vision operators for specialised processing elements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Studying research papers,
  - source code repositories and product documentation to deploy new models using the Voyager SDK, and evaluating their performance and accuracy.
• Implementing image pre and post processing operators, collaborating with the compiler team to troubleshoot compilation issues, and writing decoders that transform inference tensors to metadata for ease of use by application developers.
• Integrating popular
  - standard model frameworks within the SDK to facilitate
  - code and
  - code deployment of many customer models and datasets.
• Defining metadata representations for common types of models (such as bounding boxes and keypoints), creating libraries for evaluating deployed model accuracy on Axelera AI hardware and creating libraries for visually rendering inference results.
• Optimizing
  -
  - end pipeline latency and throughput, root causing any bottlenecks arising on supported hardware platforms, and developing profiling tools to help customers more easily analyse and understand bottlenecks in their own pipelines.
• Writing and maintaining comprehensive product documentation and sharing knowledge with team members, promoting best practices and continuous improvement.

Qualifications:

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent work experience in the semiconductor and/or AI industry.
• Proven
  - on experience with edge deployment frameworks such as Open
  VINO or Tensor
  RT.
• Familiarity with model optimisation techniques such as quantization, compression and pruning a plus.
• Proficiency in AI application development using Python, with extensive experience in ML libraries such as Py
  Torch and Tensor
  Flow.
• Demonstrated ability to build and deploy
  -
  - end pipelines with quantized models.
• Experience in training models using transfer learning to leverage
  - trained models for new tasks.
• Experience with MLIR and ONNXRuntime a plus.
• Strong
  - solving skills and an ability to troubleshoot and debug complex
  - dimensional problems.
• Proficient Linux skills.
• Practical knowledge of agile development using tools such as Jira, Git and Git
  Hub.
• Self-motivated with the ability to thrive in a
  - paced collaborative startup environment.

Location

This position is based in Italy & we support relocation to Bologna, Florence or Milan for talent based abroad and interested in this role.

What We Offer

This is your chance to shape and be part of a dynamic,
- growing, international organization. We offer an attractive compensation package, including a pension plan, extensive employee insurances and the option to get company shares.

An open culture that supports creativity and continual innovation is awaiting you. Collaborative ownership and freedom with responsibility is characteristic for the way we act and work as a team.

At Axelera AI, we wholeheartedly embrace equal opportunity and hold diversity in the highest regard. Our steadfast commitment is to cultivate a warm and inclusive environment that empowers and celebrates every member of our team. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to join us in shaping the future of AI.