Senior Applied AI Engineer
Originally posted 11 August 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role involves developing, prototyping, validating, and scaling AI-enabled engineering capabilities across Cirrus Logic R&D's Hardware, Software & Firmware design teams.
What you'll do
- Develop, prototype, validate, and scale AI-enabled engineering capabilities.
- Build and evaluate AI-assisted workflows for firmware and driver development, code understanding, debugging, test creation, documentation, and engineering productivity.
- Design and implement retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), contextual knowledge, tool integration, and agentic workflows.
- Connect AI systems to engineering tools, repositories, build and test systems, documentation, and hardware and lab environments.
- Establish rigorous evaluation methods for AI-enabled workflows, including quality, correctness, security, developer experience, productivity, and hardware-in-the-loop validation.
- Convert successful pilots into reusable AI Core capabilities, including reference architectures, libraries, integration patterns, governance controls, documentation, and enablement materials.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline, with 5+ years of relevant experience in software, AI/ML systems, developer infrastructure, embedded systems, or firmware.
- Strong Python software engineering skills, with experience delivering production-quality tools, services, or developer infrastructure.
- Practical experience applying modern AI/ML technologies, including large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), embeddings and vector search, tool calling, agents, model evaluation, or AI application platforms.
- Experience designing reliable software systems with clear interfaces, observability, testing, security, and maintainability.
- Demonstrated ability to move from an ambiguous problem statement through prototype, evaluation, and engineering adoption.
- Ability to work effectively across software, firmware, hardware, test, DevOps, IT, and security disciplines.
Nice to have
- Experience with embedded software, firmware, device drivers, RTOS or bare-metal development, hardware bring-up, or hardware/software co-debug.
- Experience integrating AI systems with source control, CI/CD, issue tracking, documentation systems, build systems, test automation, or laboratory equipment.
- Experience with hardware-in-the-loop, simulation, emulation, or automated validation environments.
- Knowledge of C/C++, Linux, developer tooling, code analysis, and secure software-development practices.
- Familiarity with enterprise data governance, access controls, model safety, and intellectual-property considerations.
- Experience developing reusable technical platforms, standards, or enablement materials for a broad engineering organization.
Skills: AI-enabled engineering, LLMs, RAG, firmware development, hardware-in-the-loop
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First seen in our index 93 days ago, well above the 71-day median for Software Engineering Semiconductor roles.
Software Engineering Semiconductor · AI EDA Design
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Open roles in category
82
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Median days since first seen
71 d
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Category median salary (all employers)
$180k
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| Metric | Cirrus Logic | All employers we track in this specialty (82 roles · 25 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 82 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 14 | 6708 · 161 employers |
| Median days since first seen | 65 d | 71 d (+6 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | n/a | $180k |
Skills observed across this category: AI-enabled engineering, LLMs, RAG, firmware development, hardware-in-the-loop
Who's hiring in this category
- Micron Technology · 10 open roles · median 60 d
- Applied Materials · 9 open roles · median 91 d
- KLA Corporation · 9 open roles · median 78 d
- Lam Research · 8 open roles · median 48 d
- NVIDIA · 7 open roles · median 218 d
- Etched · 6 open roles · median 28 d
How we counted: 82 open Software Engineering Semiconductor (AI EDA Design) roles from 25 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 13 Nov 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there, and is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Days are counted from when our index first saw each posting, not from the employer's original posting date.