Sr. Staff Embedded Applications Engineer, TinyML Lab
Core
Lead a physical Edge AI Applications Lab to build custom sensor rigs, deploy TinyML on microcontrollers, and execute non-visual sensing solutions for industrial and automotive systems.
Role type
Senior Staff Embedded Applications Engineer (Lab Leadership & Physical Prototyping)
Builds
Custom physical prototype rigs, sensor arrays, and edge AI solutions for Renesas silicon
Domain
Semiconductor / Embedded Systems / Digital Signal Processing / TinyML
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Embedded C/C++ firmware, Digital Signal Processing (DSP), TinyML deployment on microcontrollers, Physical hardware prototyping and fabrication, Low-level debugging (oscilloscope, logic analyzer), Microcontroller architecture (ARM Cortex-M, Renesas RA/RX/RL78), RTOS (FreeRTOS, Zephyr), Sensor data engineering
Preferred skills
3D printing, PCB bring-up, FFT implementation, Quantized model optimization
Technologies
TFLite Micro, CMSIS-NN, eIQ, SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, JTAG/SWD
Responsibilities
Manage physical lab facilities and equipment procurement; Lead hands-on assembly of prototype rigs and sensor arrays; Design DSP pipelines and deploy quantized TinyML models onto microcontrollers; Instrument physical systems to capture high-frequency time-series sensor data; Mentor junior engineers in firmware debugging and physical fabrication; Collaborate with customers and internal teams on hardware integrations
Seniority
Senior Staff, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities
