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The Engineer, Staff – Ambient AI Technology joins the Ambient Perception Platform team to lead the architecture and evolution of next-generation frameworks. This role involves developing context awareness engines, multimodal data collection systems, secure data delivery architectures, and low-power AI runtime platforms. The successful candidate will build software that enables intelligent, low-power, context-aware experiences across Android, Linux, Windows, XR, automotive, and IoT platforms. Key responsibilities include optimizing AI workloads across CPU, DSP, NPU, and GPU architectures while managing power, performance, memory, and latency. Required technical skills include proficiency in C, C++, and Python, along with experience in embedded systems, heterogeneous SoC architectures, and Linux kernel architecture. The work focuses on solving problems related to always-on, proactive experiences and multimodal sensing systems on power-constrained edge devices.
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