Job Information
Edgecortix Inc. Staff Field Applications Engineer (FAE) in United States
Introduction
EdgeCortix is hiring for a staff field application engineer position to join our Tokyo/Kanagawa-based team and drive support of pre-sales and post-sales activities related to our artificial intelligence (AI) processor and AI acceleration software products. While located in Japan, you will be primarily involved in supporting customers locally, including the broader APAC region, across defense and commercial sectors.
Pre-sales tasks include winning designs using EdgeCortix's MERA™ Software Framework and the EdgeCortix SAKURA-I™ AI inference devices, delivering technical presentations, demonstrating product capabilities, and working closely with the EdgeCortix engineering and sales team to win customer projects. Post-sales tasks include assisting customers with their applications, training customers on EdgeCortix product best practices, providing benchmarks, and collaborating with internal teams to improve the overall customer experience.
FAE Scope and Key Responsibilities
Works closely with customers to promote EdgeCortix technology, conduct Proof-of-Concept demos, and write technical proposals to secure design wins along with sales
Performs architecture/design/implementation reviews with customer engineers to reduce production risk and accelerate the development cycle with EdgeCortix products
Acts as the leader in the field to provide prompt technical support to optimize the design and drive the closure of technical issues to customer satisfaction
Builds deep relationship with customer key technical stakeholders and serve as a trusted technical adviser
Works as customer advocate in providing feedback on EdgeCortix devices, tools, software, and solutions that meet customer technical requirements
As a senior-level position, the candidate is a highly motivated self-starter and requires little day-to-day supervision.
Required Background
Minimum of bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Sc. or related field with 5+ years of related work experience
Knowledge of high-level language OpenCL, C/C++, and scripting languages Python and TCL is desired
Solid technical experience with GPU, FPGA, CPU, or 3rd party ASIC devices used in AI inference or training
Knowledge of various computing memory interfaces, PCIe interfaces and network interfaces is a plus
A good understanding of computer architectures or heterogeneous computing systems is desired
Experience communicating with hardware and software groups.
Experience selling into robotics, surveillance, autonomous systems, vision applications, defense, and space industry.
Embedded or Edge focused semiconductor/microprocessor-related experience and computer vision exposure and experience
Nice to have
Understanding of machine learning solutions for the cloud or edge markets
Experience with machine learning frameworks like PyTorch / TensorFlow or ONNX
Personal Attributes
Can-do attitude, execution, and results focus, highly accountable, strong team player, high integrity, visionary, innovative. Capable of handling difficult conversations in a professional manner.
Benefits
Competitive compensation package
Comprehensive paid time off, vacations, and sick leaves
Employee Stock Option Plan
Be part of a high-growth and unique company in Japan