Senior AI Engineer, AI Core for Hardware & R&D

Cirrus Logic; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Cirrus Logic is seeking a hands-on Senior AI Engineer to join its centralized AI Core team. You will develop, prototype, validate, and scale AI-enabled capabilities across R&D's hardware, software, and firmware design groups.

This builder role translates evolving AI tech into secure, reliable improvements in design, testing, debugging, and maintenance, partnering across hardware, software, and IT.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in software, AI/ML systems, developer infrastructure, embedded systems, firmware, or a closely related field.
• Strong Python software engineering skills, with experience delivering production-quality tools, services, or developer infrastructure.
• Practical experience applying modern AI/ML technologies, including large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings and vector search, tool calling, agents, model evaluation, or AI application platforms.
• Experience designing reliable software systems with clear interfaces, observability, testing, security, and maintainability.
• Demonstrated ability to move from an ambiguous problem statement through prototype, evaluation, and engineering adoption.
• Ability to work effectively across software, firmware, hardware, test, DevOps, IT, and security disciplines.
• Strong technical judgment, structured problem solving, and communication skills, including the ability to explain complex AI tradeoffs to technical and leadership audiences.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Hardware, Software & Firmware leaders, architects, developers, test engineers, and DevOps to identify, prioritize, and rapidly prototype high-value AI use cases.
• Build and evaluate AI-assisted workflows for firmware and driver development, code understanding, debugging, test creation, documentation, and engineering productivity.
• Design and implement retrieval-augmented generation, contextual knowledge, tool integration, and agentic workflows that safely use approved internal engineering information.
• Connect AI systems to appropriate engineering tools, repositories, build and test systems, documentation, and, where appropriate, hardware and lab environments.
• Establish rigorous evaluation methods for AI-enabled workflows, including quality, correctness, security, developer experience, productivity, and hardware-in-the-loop validation.
• Convert successful pilots into reusable AI Core capabilities, including reference architectures, libraries, integration patterns, governance controls, documentation, and enablement materials.
• Help define the technical roadmap for AI in R&D, including build-versus-buy recommendations, vendor evaluation, data and access requirements, and deployment patterns.
• Work with security, IT, legal, and engineering leadership to ensure responsible use of models, code, confidential information, and internal tools.
• Share learnings across the AI Core team and R&D through demonstrations, technical guidance, and practical training that supports adoption.

Skills

Python

AI/ML systems

Embedded systems

DevOps

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline

Tools

CI/CD

Git

Embeddings & vector search

Retrieval-augmented generation

Linux

RTOS

Job description

Cirrus Logic is seeking a hands-on Senior AI Engineer to join its centralized AI Core team. You will develop, prototype, validate, and scale AI-enabled capabilities across R&D's hardware, software, and firmware design groups.

This builder role translates evolving AI tech into secure, reliable improvements in design, testing, debugging, and maintenance, partnering across hardware, software, and IT.