Lead Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Develop expertise and provide in-depth technical support for Cadence’s Tensilica microprocessor cores with emphasis on processor and system architecture
• Assist customers with integration of Tensilica Neural Network and DSP SW libraries into their Application software stack.
• Track and resolve customer issues via the customer support portal
• Provide customer training and assist field organization with technology evaluations
• Lead the evaluation, review and advanced usage of new products/features before release.
• Propose enhancements to our products, software tools, and documentation to better serve customer use cases.
• Influence future Tensilica products by providing customer feedback back to the hardware and software development groups at headquarters.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in EE/CS or equivalent plus 4+ years’ work experience.
• In-depth understanding of Neural Networks / Deep Learning concepts, knowledge of neural network frameworks (TFLM, Pytorch) and/or projects in areas of speech
• Work experience on common network architectures for classification, detection, segmentation
• Exposure to training and evaluating neural network for accuracy and benchmarks analysis are plus.
• Audio compression standards, audio post processing, speech processing are plus
• Detailed understanding of either leading DSP/RISC/ARM architecture, RTOS and software development flow.
• Familiarity with Embedded systems, Xtensa processor architecture, Xtensa tools and technologies is a plus.
• multi-threading and multi-core systems
• Must be self-driven and have good problem-solving skills
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Occasional travel (less than 10%), including international travel, might be required.

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