Neuromorphic AI Research Scientist for Edge & Robotics

Intel; Hillsboro (OR); Hybrid; USD 171,000 - 315,000; Full time

Job summary

Intel is seeking a Neuromorphic AI Research Scientist to advance neuromorphic processor technology toward commercial adoption. The role focuses on designing, prototyping, and evaluating architectures and algorithms for edge computing, signal processing, and autonomous systems.

Join Intel's CTO Office to translate breakthroughs into real-world products, contributing to research quality software and technical thought leadership in neuromorphic computing.

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

Python

C/C++

OO design

Testing

Version control

Documentation

Code reviews

AI/ML fundamentals

Education

PhD in Computational Neuroscience, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Robotics, or related field

Tools

Version control systems

Job description

Intel is seeking a Neuromorphic AI Research Scientist to advance neuromorphic processor technology toward commercial adoption. The role focuses on designing, prototyping, and evaluating architectures and algorithms for edge computing, signal processing, and autonomous systems.

Join Intel's CTO Office to translate breakthroughs into real-world products, contributing to research quality software and technical thought leadership in neuromorphic computing.