Senior Embedded Applications Engineer

Responsibilities

• Assemble physical, microelectronic, and sensor-based hardware setups and collect data from real-world environments.
• Develop and maintain edge AI applications, demonstrations, and solutions using tiny ML models across consumer, industrial, and automotive hardware.
• Ingest, debug, preprocess, and analyze large high-frequency sensor datasets for model development and validation.
• Optimize and deploy AI/ML models on microcontrollers and embedded platforms.
• Collaborate with product, marketing, AI, and embedded engineering teams.
• Lead junior engineers and provide technical leadership across teams.
• Apply signal processing and embedded ML expertise to emerging AI and hardware technologies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering or a related technical field; a master’s degree is also referenced.
• 2–3 years of career experience.
• Hands-on experience fabricating prototype systems with physical, microelectronic, and sensor components, including design tools, 3D printing, and electrical and physical assembly.
• Broad familiarity with sensors, their placement, and embedded-system applications, including audio, electrical, accelerometer, and control-system signals.
• Experience with large high-frequency sensor datasets, including debugging and preprocessing.
• Understanding of AI/ML algorithms and experience deploying models on microcontrollers.
• Proficiency in Python, MATLAB, and C, with experience in real-time edge computing and embedded systems.
• Background in digital signal processing for audio and time-series data.
• Experience leading engineering teams, managing projects, and collaborating across cross-functional groups.

Benefits

• Fully onsite work in Columbia, MD; remote work is not available.
• Regular permanent employment (PERM).
• Medical coverage, health savings account, dental, vision, health and dependent-care 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.