Sr Staff AI Software Development Engineer

Senior Staff AI Software Engineer

About the Role:  

We are seeking an experienced technical leader who can drive our AI Recommender System engineering function. This individual should bring significant experience in AI agent systems embedded within software tools for making live, context-aware recommendations for documentation links and/or suggestions completing partial user entries.  The successful candidate will take responsibility for the recommender panel and related functions within our cloud-based electronic system design (ESD) tools.  They will build upon our existing small team, define processes, and set technical direction.

What You'll Do

• Own the recommender AI engineering function: Define technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap based upon functional requirements set by product manager.
• Build and manage the team: Recruit, onboard, and develop AI engineers; establish team structure, processes, and best practices
• Establish engineering standards: Create workflows, code review processes, testing frameworks, and documentation practices for ML/AI systems
• Bridge the gap: Translate between ML engineering and business stakeholders; educate leadership on AI capabilities and limitations
• Hands-on technical leadership: Architect and build production ML systems while mentoring team members

Required Qualifications

• 8-10 years in production-grade software systems, building and leveraging AI/ML components in related areas.  with significant technical and people management experience
• PhD or Masters in AI/ML or adjacent field
• Proven ability to establish AI engineering practices in organizations without core AI/ML expertise
• Self-directed and autonomous: Comfortable operating with ambiguity and building structure from the ground up
• AI/ML technical expertise:
  • Fine-tuning foundation LLM and related models (SFT, RLHF, DPO, etc.)
  • MLOps and production ML infrastructure
  • PyTorch, HuggingFace Transformers ecosystem
  • Vector databases, RAG architectures
• Cloud software infrastructure experience (AWS/Azure, Databricks, Terraform, Elasticsearch, etc.)
• Communication skills: Ability to explain complex ML concepts to non-technical stakeholders

Highly Valued

• Domain expertise in circuit diagrams, PCB schematics, or electronic engineering
• Knowledge of Graph Neural Networks (GNN) concepts.
• Track record of creating engineering processes and teams from scratch

Renesas offers a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, and pet insurance. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive company-paid life insurance and AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as paid sick time, paid holidays, and accrued paid vacation. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.
 
With a diverse team of over 22,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’     
 
At Renesas, you can: 

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.  

• Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people’s lives easier, safe and secure. 

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.    

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?  

Join Renesas. Shape Your Future with Us.  

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to celebrating diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.

Renesas Electronics deals with dual-use technology that is subject to U.S. export controls regulations. Under these regulations it may be necessary for Renesas to obtain U.S. government export license prior to release of technology to certain persons. The decision whether or not to file or pursue an export license application is at the sole discretion of Renesas.

We have adopted a hybrid model that gives employees the ability to work remotely two days a week while ensuring that we come together as a team in the office the rest of the time. The designated in-office days are Tuesday through Thursday for innovation, collaboration and continuous learning.

Renesas is an embedded semiconductor solution provider driven by its Purpose ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’ As the industry’s leading expert in embedded processing with unmatched quality and system-level know-how, we have evolved to provide scalable and comprehensive semiconductor solutions for automotive, industrial, infrastructure, and IoT industries based on the broadest product portfolio, including High Performance Computing, Embedded Processing, Analog & Connectivity, and Power.
 
With a diverse team of over 21,000 professionals in more than 30 countries, we continue to expand our boundaries to offer enhanced user experiences through digitalization and usher into a new era of innovation. We design and develop sustainable, power-efficient solutions today that help people and communities thrive tomorrow, ‘To Make Our Lives Easier.’     
 
At Renesas, you can: 

• Launch and advance your career in technical and business roles across four Product Groups and various corporate functions. You will have the opportunities to explore our hardware and software capabilities and try new things.  

• Make a real impact by developing innovative products and solutions to meet our global customers' evolving needs and help make people’s lives easier, safe and secure. 

• Maximize your performance and wellbeing in our flexible and inclusive work environment. Our people-first culture and global support system, including the remote work option and Employee Resource Groups, will help you excel from the first day.    

Are you ready to own your success and make your mark?  

Join Renesas. Let’s Shape the Future together.  

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to supporting diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.

We have adopted a hybrid model that gives employees the ability to work remotely two days a week while ensuring that we come together as a team in the office the rest of the time. The designated in-office days are Tuesday through Thursday for innovation, collaboration and continuous learning.