Staff AI Application Engineer - Heterogeneous Computing

European AI-semiconductor company building AI inference accelerators and software for embedded, edge, server, and data-center deployments.

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Eindhoven, Netherlands
About Axelera AI

Axelera AI develops purpose-built AI acceleration hardware and the Voyager SDK for computer-vision, generative-AI, and other inference workloads, emphasizing power- and thermally-constrained deployments.

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About the Role

You will build model enablement tools and agent workflows for model bring-up. You will own model ingestion and partitioning across accelerators, extend heterogeneous execution for large and multi-model workloads, optimize end-to-end performance, and turn lessons from critical models into platform improvements.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of engineering experience in systems, compilers, runtimes or performance
  • System-level design ownership
  • Heterogeneous computing
  • Computer architecture
  • Operating systems
  • Parallel programming
  • ML graph representations
  • Compiler concepts
  • C++
  • Python
  • AI coding agent usage

Responsibilities

  • Build model enablement platforms, agent harnesses and verification workflows
  • Own model capture, analysis and partitioning across AIPUs, CPUs and host accelerators
  • Extend heterogeneous execution for large models and multi-model pipelines
  • Optimize end-to-end performance across host and device work
  • Profile device time, host time and data movement
  • Study critical customer models and turn findings into platform improvements

Benefits

  • Pension plan
  • Employee insurances
  • Company share option