Senior Embedded Applications Engineer, Edge AI Lab
Renesas Electronics23 hours ago
Base Salary
$84k - $105k/yr
Responsibilities
- Assemble physical prototype rigs, sensor arrays, 3D-printed mounts, and microelectronic setups.
- Instrument physical systems and collect, clean, and preprocess high-frequency acoustic, vibration, electrical, and motor-current data.
- Build DSP feature-extraction pipelines using FFTs, spectral analysis, and filtering.
- Deploy optimized and quantized TinyML models onto ARM Cortex-M and Renesas RA, RX, and RL78 microcontrollers.
- Develop real-time bare-metal or RTOS C/C++ firmware, including DMA buffer management and low-level peripheral drivers.
- Debug embedded systems and hardware telemetry and demonstrate working solutions to customers and internal product teams.
- Lead junior engineers on lab tasks, document engineering practices, and provide cross-functional technical leadership.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in electrical engineering, computer engineering, applied physics, or a related technical discipline.
- 2–3+ years of hands-on career experience in embedded software, physical hardware prototyping, digital signal processing, and real-time edge computing.
- Experience with physical system fabrication, 3D printing, electrical assembly, PCB bring-up, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and JTAG/SWD.
- Strong C/C++ programming for constrained microcontrollers and experience with bare-metal or RTOS development, DMA, and low-level drivers.
- Experience with SPI, I2C, UART, CAN, digital signal processing for time-series or audio data, and deploying quantized ML models to microcontrollers.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, health savings account, flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, pet insurance, long-term disability, short-term medical benefits, paid sick time, paid holidays, and accrued paid vacation.
- Eligible for bonus opportunities and commission pay.
- Regular permanent employment; no remote work is available.
- The role is based in a physical lab facility in Columbia, Maryland and does not require a SCIF or security clearance.
Tech Stack
CC++
Categories
About Renesas Electronics
Renesas Electronics designs and sells microcontrollers, analog and power ICs, and connectivity solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT manufacturers. Its portfolio spans embedded processing, power management and ADAS-ready components, sold directly and through channels to OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers, with software and development tools to integrate them. Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Tokyo, it is a public company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and has expanded through acquisitions including Intersil and Dialog Semiconductor.