Neuromorphic AI Research Scientist (Edge & Robotics)

Intel; Folsom (CA); Hybrid; USD 171,000 - 315,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Stock bonuses

Retirement plan

Vacation

Job summary

Intel's Neuromorphic Computing Lab seeks a Neuromorphic AI Research Scientist to advance state-of-the-art neuromorphic processor technology toward commercial adoption. The role focuses on modeling, prototyping, and defining architectures and algorithms for real-world customer applications in edge computing, signal processing, and autonomous systems.

Candidates should have a PhD (or equivalent) and a strong publication record, with experience turning research ideas into working prototypes and

Qualifications

• PhD (or equivalent research experience) in Computational Neuroscience, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Robotics, or a related field.
• 1+ projects demonstrating the skills to turn research ideas into working prototypes and to evaluate them rigorously (benchmarks, baselines, ablations, quantitative reporting).
• 3+ publications in leading journals or conferences on AI/ML, edge computing, robotics, and/or control.
• 2+ years of experience with state-of-the-art AI models, optimization, and at least one of: control/dynamical systems, signal processing, or probabilistic inference.
• Scientific programming for research (e.g., Python or C/C++) including experience with software development best practices (OO design, testing, debugging, documentation, version control, code reviews).

Responsibilities

• Design and analyze neuromorphic AI algorithms for robotics, signal processing, control, and learning on edge platforms
• Develop research-quality software artifacts including APIs, kernels, and benchmarking tools that enable collaborative innovation
• Prototype and evaluate approaches under realistic constraints including quantization, sparsity, memory footprint, latency, and energy optimization
• Collaborate with hardware and software engineering teams to translate algorithmic requirements into hardware specifications
• Build experimental pipelines and benchmarks for target use cases with comprehensive baseline and ablation studies
• Communicate results through technical documentation, customer prototypes, and publications in leading conferences and journals
• Contribute to technical thought leadership in neuromorphic computing and present findings to internal and external stakeholders

Skills

Neuromorphic AI

Edge computing

Algorithm prototyping

Version control

Python

C/C++

Education

PhD in Computational Neuroscience or related field

Tools

Python

C/C++

Job description

Intel's Neuromorphic Computing Lab seeks a Neuromorphic AI Research Scientist to advance state-of-the-art neuromorphic processor technology toward commercial adoption. The role focuses on modeling, prototyping, and defining architectures and algorithms for real-world customer applications in edge computing, signal processing, and autonomous systems.

Candidates should have a PhD (or equivalent) and a strong publication record, with experience turning research ideas into working prototypes and