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Forward Deployed Engineer

Burlingame, California, United States💼 Full-time🗓 2026-07-22 → 2026-09-26

Core

Convert customer evaluations into committed design wins for the Quadric Chimera GPNPU by porting workloads, optimizing performance, and guiding model-architecture tradeoffs.

Role type

Senior Field Deployment Engineer (Edge AI/Semiconductor)

Builds

Edge AI chips (Chimera GPNPU) for automotive, industrial, robotics, and embedded systems

Domain

Semiconductor IP / Edge AI / Embedded Systems

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

C++, Python, systems-level performance intuition, custom kernel development, compiler tooling, profiling, quantization

Preferred skills

FAE/FDE experience, agentic dev tooling familiarity, NPU/edge-AI IP background, inference startup experience, technical trading optimization background

Technologies

Chimera GPNPU, Claude Code, MCP, C++, Python

Responsibilities

Port customer workloads onto Chimera architecture, debug failures and hit benchmark targets, build reusable SDK skills and porting playbooks, partner with engineering teams to shape roadmap

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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