Staff Field Applications Engineer, Edgecortix

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Sc. or related field with 5+ years of related work experience
• Knowledge of high-level language OpenCL, C/C++, and scripting languages Python and TCL is desired
• Solid technical experience with GPU, FPGA, CPU, or 3rd party ASIC devices used in AI inference or training
• Knowledge of various computing memory interfaces, PCIe interfaces and network interfaces is a plus
• A good understanding of computer architectures or heterogeneous computing systems is desired
• Experience communicating with hardware and software groups
• Experience selling into robotics, surveillance, autonomous systems, vision applications, defense, and space industry
• Embedded or Edge focused semiconductor/microprocessor-related experience and computer vision exposure and experience

Desirable

• EdgeCortix is hiring for a staff field application engineer position to join our Tokyo/Kanagawa-based team and drive support of pre-sales and post-sales activities related to our artificial intelligence (AI) processor and AI acceleration software products
• While located in Japan, you will be primarily involved in supporting customers locally, including the broader APAC region, across defense and commercial sectors
• Pre-sales tasks include winning designs using EdgeCortix’s MERA™ Software Framework and the EdgeCortix SAKURA-I™ AI inference devices, delivering technical presentations, demonstrating product capabilities, and working closely with the EdgeCortix engineering and sales team to win customer projects
• Post-sales tasks include assisting customers with their applications, training customers on EdgeCortix product best practices, providing benchmarks, and collaborating with internal teams to improve the overall customer experience
• Works closely with customers to promote EdgeCortix technology, conduct Proof-of-Concept demos, and write technical proposals to secure design wins along with sales
• Performs architecture/design/implementation reviews with customer engineers to reduce production risk and accelerate the development cycle with EdgeCortix products
• Acts as the leader in the field to provide prompt technical support to optimize the design and drive the closure of technical issues to customer satisfaction
• Builds deep relationship with customer key technical stakeholders and serve as a trusted technical adviser
• Works as customer advocate in providing feedback on EdgeCortix devices, tools, software, and solutions that meet customer technical requirements
• As a senior-level position, the candidate is a highly motivated self-starter and requires little day-to-day supervision