Automotive Application Engineer

About the role

Axelera AI is seeking a hands‑on Automotive Application Engineer to validate and adapt its full‑stack edge‑AI solution for automotive market requirements. You will translate customer needs into testable criteria, run benchmarks on real automotive use cases, and help close gaps between the current stack and automotive expectations.

Key responsibilities

• Translate market and customer requirements into evaluation criteria and maintain a requirements‑versus‑capability view across releases.
• Define and execute benchmarks for ADAS perception, surround‑view, DMS/OMS, sensor fusion, etc., under automotive‑realistic conditions.
• Port, quantise and optimise automotive AI workloads onto Axelera silicon, maintaining automation and regression dashboards.
• Identify and close gaps in toolchain, runtime, OS/middleware integration, and prototype integration with Linux/QNX, AUTOSAR Adaptive, Android Automotive OS, ROS 2.
• Contribute to safety‑qualified (ASIL‑B/ASIL‑D) software stack, assessing integration effort for Tier‑1/OEM customers.
• Own technical work packages in collaborative R&D projects and automotive consortia, delivering demonstrators and aligning with internal road‑maps.

Required profile

• 4–8 years of experience in embedded software or application engineering within automotive or automotive semiconductors.
• Strong proficiency in embedded C and Python for tooling and test automation.
• Hands‑on experience with real‑time, safety‑qualified development (ASIL‑B/ASIL‑D, ISO 26262) on constrained targets.
• Familiarity with embedded Linux, QNX, AUTOSAR, cross‑compilation, CI, MISRA and hardware validation (bench/HIL testing).
• Fluent English and willingness to travel (~15 % for consortium meetings).

Required skills

• Embedded C
• Python
• Embedded Linux
• QNX
• AUTOSAR (Classic & Adaptive)
• ISO 26262, ASIL‑B/ASIL‑D safety development
• Bench/HIL testing and hardware bring‑up
• CI/CD pipelines, MISRA compliance
• Deep‑learning frameworks (PyTorch, ONNX) – optional but valued

What we offer

• Attractive compensation package with pension plan, extensive employee insurances and company share options.
• Flexible working arrangement: remote from any European country or office‑based in Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, or the UK.
• Dynamic, fast‑growing international environment with a focus on innovation and inclusion.