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Senior Staff Edge Applications Engineer (Hardware & Embedded Lab Lead)

Columbia, MARYLAND, us💼 Full-time💰 $139,500–$139,500🗓 2026-09-04 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead a physical Edge AI Applications Lab to build custom sensor rigs, deploy TinyML on microcontrollers, and process high-frequency time-series data for non-visual sensing solutions.

Role type

Senior Staff Edge Applications Engineer (Hardware & Embedded Lab Lead)

Builds

Custom physical prototype rigs, sensor arrays, and optimized TinyML models for industrial, automotive, and consumer devices.

Domain

Semiconductor / Embedded Systems / Digital Signal Processing / TinyML

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Embedded C/C++ firmware development, Digital Signal Processing (FFT, spectral analysis), TinyML deployment on microcontrollers, Physical hardware prototyping and fabrication, Low-level debugging (oscilloscope, logic analyzer, JTAG/SWD), Microcontroller architecture (ARM Cortex-M, Renesas RA/RX/RL78), RTOS (FreeRTOS, Zephyr), Sensor instrumentation (acoustic, vibration, electrical)

Preferred skills

M.S. or Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Applied Physics, Experience with TFLite Micro, CMSIS-NN, or eIQ, Cross-BU hardware integration

Technologies

TFLite Micro, CMSIS-NN, eIQ, FreeRTOS, Zephyr, ARM Cortex-M, Renesas RA/RX/RL78, SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, 3D printing

Responsibilities

Manage physical lab facilities, equipment, and project scheduling; Lead hands-on assembly of prototype rigs and sensor arrays; Design DSP feature extraction pipelines and deploy quantized ML models; Instrument physical systems to capture and preprocess high-frequency time-series data; Debug edge firmware and demonstrate live hardware solutions; Mentor junior engineers in firmware debugging and physical fabrication.

Seniority

Senior Staff, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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