Embedded AI Engineer
Hybrid (San Jose)$200k - $450kfull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Embedded AI Engineer role focusing on bringing AI to Hark’s next-generation hardware, including data ingestion, model development, optimization, and deployment on embedded devices. Requires deep understanding of embedded system constraints and experience in both embedded software and AI model deployment.
Responsibilities
- Build data collection and ingestion pipelines for an embedded system including various sensors, at scale
- Work closely with model teams to co-design model architectures that meets the required latency, memory, power, and bandwidth
- Work with platform vendors to bring up toolchains, SDKs and new accelerator to ensure efficient model deployment and optimization
- Integrate ML inference into embedded firmware written in C, C++, or Rust
- Profile and optimize memory usage, power consumption, and real-time performance
- Evaluate and select silicon platforms (GPUs, NPUs etc.) for Hark’s next gen on-device and edge deployment of a wide range of models
Qualifications
- 5 years of experience in machine learning engineering, with at least 2 years focused on embedded or edge ML
- Familiarity with embedded systems, and CPU/DSP/NPU HW architectures
- Hands-on experience with IMUs and other sensor types including accelerometers, gyroscopes, and microphones
- Experience building sensor data collection pipelines
- Familiarity and experience with embedded ML run times (e.g. TFLite, llamacpp, QNN)
- Experience optimizing models for deployment on microcontrollers and edge processors such as ARM Cortex-M/A, RISC-V, and DSPs
- Experience deploying workloads on NPUs or specialized accelerators for embedded systems
Skills
Required:Data collection and ingestion pipelinesEmbedded ML run timesEmbedded firmware developmentSensor technologiesHardware understanding
Last updated Oct 1, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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