Director, Embedded AI & Hardware-Accelerated Imaging

Exosens; Grenoble; Hybrid; EUR 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Exosens in Grenoble, France, seeks a Director of Embedded Artificial Intelligence to build and lead a new team focused on integrating AI with sensing hardware for imaging systems.

You will drive AI strategy across hardware-aware optimization, porting to NN accelerators, FPGAs and GPUs, and deliver production-ready solutions for defense, life sciences and industrial sensing.

This role combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic roadmap, performance, power, and cost targets.

Qualifications

• Proven experience deploying AI or advanced signal processing on embedded hardware in commercial products.
• Strong practical expertise in porting and optimizing algorithms for dedicated neural network accelerators, FPGAs, or GPUs.
• Solid understanding of embedded computing, parallel processing, fixed-point arithmetic, memory hierarchies, and hardware constraints.
• Experience with hardware-specific compilation, inference runtimes, profiling tools, and debugging on target devices.
• Strong C/C++ and Python skills with modern deep learning frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team combining expertise in AI algorithms, embedded software, and hardware acceleration.
• Define the AI architecture and technology roadmap for camera, sensor, and detector products.
• Lead porting, optimization, and deployment of neural networks and signal processing on NN processors, FPGAs, GPUs, and embedded SoCs.
• Guide hardware-software co-design including processor selection, workload partitioning, memory architecture, and data movement.
• Adapt models to target hardware through quantization, pruning, and custom operator implementations.
• Develop efficient inference pipelines from sensor acquisition to postprocessing.

Skills

Embedded AI

AI algorithms porting

C/C++

Python

Hardware acceleration

Team leadership

Computer vision

Sensor signal processing

Education

Master's degree or PhD in EE/CS or related

Tools

FPGA toolchains

CUDA

RTL

High-level Synthesis

NN processors

GPUs

Job description

Exosens in Grenoble, France, seeks a Director of Embedded Artificial Intelligence to build and lead a new team focused on integrating AI with sensing hardware for imaging systems.

You will drive AI strategy across hardware-aware optimization, porting to NN accelerators, FPGAs and GPUs, and deliver production-ready solutions for defense, life sciences and industrial sensing.

This role combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic roadmap, performance, power, and cost targets.