Syntiant Corp., a leader in the high-growth AI software and semiconductor solutions space, is looking for an experienced and talented AI Software Application Engineer to take on a critical role with expansive responsibilities and play a leading role in supporting the deployment of Syntiant software AI solutions in a growing organization to a growing customer base.

The AI Software Application Engineer will be responsible for supporting integrations of vision as well as audio models and features on 3rd party hardware using the Syntiant Inference SDK. This position will play a key role in integration support, debugging and resolving customer issues, writing demos and sample code, supporting Syntiant AI software FAEs and salespeople, and writing documentation.

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Prepare demos; write sample/demo applications that may be end-to-end, involving integration with a live camera stream and result visualization on a display.
• Provide integration support, including working with modelgraphs and preparing sample integration code.
• Debug integration and model performance issues.
• Report Inference SDK issues and work with the engineering team to ensure resolution.
• Gather requirements and feedback.
• Provide technical support.

Requirements

• MS in CS, EE, or CE with 10 years of experience
• Strong C, C++ and Python skills.
• Strong analytical mind and debugging skills
• Experience working with embedded systems, incl. running RTOS.
• AI/ML vision, image, and preferable audio, modeling knowledge to estimate work or diagnose customer issues and coordinate internally to schedule/manage work.
• Experience working with image or audio pipelines (Linux, Android, Windows).
• Strong communication skills.
• Computer vision, image, speech, and audio domain knowledge a plus.

Benefits

Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Irvine, Calif., Syntiant Corp. is a leader in delivering hardware and software solutions for edge AI deployment. The company’s purpose-built silicon and hardware-agnostic models are being deployed globally to power edge AI speech, audio, sensor and vision applications across a wide range of consumer and industrial use cases, from earbuds to automobiles. Syntiant’s advanced chip solutions merge deep learning with semiconductor design to produce ultra-low-power, high performance, deep neural network processors. Syntiant also provides compute-efficient software solutions with proprietary model architectures that enable world-leading inference speed and minimized memory footprint across a broad range of processors. The company is backed by several of the world’s leading strategic and financial investors including Intel Capital, Microsoft’s M12, Applied Ventures, Bosch Ventures, the Amazon Alexa Fund, and Atlantic Bridge Capital. More information on the company can be found by visiting www.syntiant.com.

The starting base pay for this role is targeted to be between $175,000 - $215,000 in addition, this role is eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan at 10% of your annual base pay. Individual compensation decisions are based on a number of factors, including but not limited to previous experience and skills acquired prior to joining Syntiant, cost of living in the assigned work location, assigned schedule, and salaries of similarly situated peers at the company. It is to be expected that candidates will come to us with different sets of skills and experiences and therefore will be paid at different points in the stated range. We recognize that the person(s) we select for hire may be less experienced or more experienced than the role as posted; if this is the case, any updates to available salary ranges will be communicated