AI Customer Application Engineer

Overview

We are seeking a talented and motivated AI Customer Application Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be part of the AI & Cloud Engineering (ACE) Division and Customer Engineering team. Our Customer Engineering team is a global team helping customers easily use our software tools and services.

Our team has been supporting customers for the optimization, customization and improvement of Renesas AI products and gives feedback to the development of AI products to achieve success of customers’ programs. As an Application Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining applications that meet the goal of our organization. You will work closely with Customers, Application Engineers, developers and gain valuable experience in AI product deliveries, and will help in driving next generation AI hardware & software.

Our division’s mission is to use the latest AI and cloud technologies to develop the best AI inference for Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS), building self-driving vehicles and other high performance computing products. Renesas is the leading automotive electronics supplier globally, and this is a rare opportunity to develop the infrastructure required to deploy our AI software to the billions of devices we ship to customers every year. You will join our newly formed AI & Cloud Engineering organization of around 100 software engineers. Due to strong demand for our AI-related products we are planning to triple in size in the next three years, so there is lots of room for you to help us grow the team together while remaining small. Our team’s key locations are Tokyo, Beijing, Singapore.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain applications and models using modern technologies and frameworks. Contribute to the development of the industry-leading new state of the art AI inferences and frameworks.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code following best practices and coding standards. Perform code reviews, testing, and debugging to identify and fix issues, optimize performance.
• Provide technical support and assistance to end-users and other team members as needed, collaborating with HW team, development engineers, technical program managers and application engineers to accelerate delivery of current/next generation AI products and models for customers, collaborating with marketing/sales team to meet requests from customers in a timely manner.
• Customization of Renesas AI products including deep learning networks, implementation of compiler optimization algorithms, AI compiler kernel development, etc.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related fields.
• Experience working as a software or AI, embedded developer, or similar roles.
• Basic knowledge of computer architecture of GPU or embedded devices.
• Programming skills in languages such as scripts, C/C++, python, or similar.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with version control systems such as Git.
• Ability to speak and write in English at a business level.
• Experience with customer-oriented development, requirement engineering is a plus.
• Experience with AI training/inference frameworks like pytorch, onnx, tf is a plus.
• Experience with AI compiler frameworks like tvm, mlir, cuda is a plus