Senior Edge AI Engineer—Embedded & FPGA

Koitecc Solutions; Albuquerque, Northern (NM, KY); Hybrid; USD 118,000 - 236,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements (9/80, 4/10

Relocation assistance

Generous vacation and medical benefits

Strong 401k

Job summary

Sandia National Laboratories is seeking an AI engineer for embedded and FPGA-focused software development, verification, and sustainment on mission-critical platforms. You will join a multidisciplinary team advancing edge AI, autonomy, and real-time processing for constrained hardware, with a strong emphasis on reliability and security.

The role involves hardware-in-the-loop testing, collaboration across engineering domains, and adoption of AI-assisted coding workflows to accelerate development

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline with 5 years of directly relevant experience or equivalent.
• Ability to acquire and maintain a DOE Q clearance and SCI clearance, which may require a polygraph.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and integrate high-TRL software for embedded, electronics, and FPGA platforms.
• Apply agentic coding tools and AI-assisted development methods to improve software productivity, quality, and maintainability.
• Implement AI, machine learning, and autonomy algorithms for real-time execution on resource-constrained hardware.
• Collaborate with electronics, firmware, software, systems, and mission-domain experts to develop integrated solutions.
• Optimize algorithms and software for performance, latency, power, memory, and reliability constraints.
• Support hardware-in-the-loop testing, embedded platform bring-up, verification, validation, and fieldable prototype demonstrations.
• Contribute to software architectures, development workflows, and best practices for trusted AI-enabled embedded systems.
• Explore emerging tools and methodologies for applying generative AI and autonomous coding agents to mission software development.

Skills

C

C++

Python

Rust

VHDL

Verilog

SystemVerilog

MATLAB

Embedded Linux

RTOS

FPGA toolchains

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline

Tools

FPGA workflows

Embedded Linux

Verilog/VHDL toolchains

Real-time OS

Job description

Sandia National Laboratories is seeking an AI engineer for embedded and FPGA-focused software development, verification, and sustainment on mission-critical platforms. You will join a multidisciplinary team advancing edge AI, autonomy, and real-time processing for constrained hardware, with a strong emphasis on reliability and security.

The role involves hardware-in-the-loop testing, collaboration across engineering domains, and adoption of AI-assisted coding workflows to accelerate development