Field Application Engineer - Kanagawa

Field Applications Engineer (FAE)

Location: Kanagawa, Japan

Job Description

EdgeCortix is hiring for a staff field application engineer position to join our Tokyo/Kanagawa basedteam 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 primarilyinvolved in supporting customers locally, including the broader APAC region, across defense andcommercial sectors.

Pre-sales tasks include winning designs using EdgeCortix’s MERATM Software Framework and theEdgeCortix SAKURA-ITM AI inference devices, delivering technical presentations, demonstratingproduct capabilities, and working closely with the EdgeCortix engineering and sales team to wincustomer projects. Post-sales tasks include assisting customers with their applications, trainingcustomers on EdgeCortix product best practices, providing benchmarks, and collaboratinginternal teams to improve the overall customer experience.

FAE Scope and Key Responsibilities

• ● Works closely with customers to promote EdgeCortix technology, conduct Proof-of-Conceptdemos and write technical proposal to secure design win along with sales

• ● Performs architecture/design/implementation reviews with customer engineers to reduceproduction risk and accelerate the development cycle with EdgeCortix products

• ● Acts as the leader in field to provide prompt technical support to optimize the design and drivethe closure of technical issue to customer satisfaction

• ● Builds deep relationship with customer key technical stakeholders and serve as a trustedtechnical adviser

• ● Works as customer advocate in providing feedback on EdgeCortix device, tools, software andsolutions that meet customer technical requirements

• ● As a senior level position, the candidate is a highly motivated self-starter and requires littleday-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 language Python and TCL isdesired

• ● Solid technical experience with GPU, FPGA, CPU or 3rd party ASIC devices used in AIinference or training

• ● Knowledge of various computing memory interfaces, PCIe interface and network interface is aplus

• ● Good understanding of computer architectures or heterogeneous computing systems isdesired

• ● 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 computervision 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