Senior Edge AI Applications Engineer (Hardware & Embedded ML Lab)
Renesas ElectronicsBase Salary
$84k - $105k/yr
Responsibilities
- Assemble physical prototype rigs, sensor arrays, 3D-printed mounts, and microelectronic setups.
- Instrument physical systems and capture, clean, and preprocess high-frequency time-series sensor data.
- Build DSP pipelines using FFTs, spectral analysis, filtering, and feature extraction.
- Deploy optimized and quantized TinyML models onto Renesas microcontrollers.
- Write real-time C/C++ embedded firmware, bare-metal or RTOS drivers, and DMA buffer management.
- Implement and debug low-level SPI, I2C, UART, and CAN communications.
- Collaborate with customers and internal product teams to analyze hardware telemetry and demonstrate working solutions.
- 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 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, and low-level hardware debugging.
- Experience using oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and JTAG/SWD debugging tools.
- Strong C/C++ programming experience for constrained microcontrollers.
- Experience with bare-metal or RTOS development, DMA buffer management, and low-level peripheral drivers.
- Understanding of DSP for time-series or audio data and practical experience deploying quantized machine-learning models directly onto microcontrollers.
- Experience with TinyML, embedded firmware, physical prototype rigs, sensor data, or related hands-on lab work is central to the role.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, health savings account, flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, and pet insurance.
- Company-paid life insurance and AD&D, long-term disability, short-term medical benefits, paid sick time, paid holidays, and accrued paid vacation.
- Eligible for bonus opportunities and commission pay; the role has an expected annual base pay range of $84,000–$105,000.
- Regular permanent employment; work is performed in a physical lab with no remote work available.
- No security clearance or SCIF is required, and the role offers commercial product impact within a small Columbia, Maryland team backed by a global semiconductor company.
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About Renesas Electronics
Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power. With a diverse team of over 21,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’