[Japan] Field Applications Engineer (FAE)

Introduction Edge. Cortix is hiring for a field application engineer position to join our Tokyo/Kanagawa based team and drive support of pre-sales and post-sales activities related to our artificial intelligence (AI) processor and AI acceleration software products. While located in Japan, you will be primarily involved in supporting customers locally, including the broader APAC region, across defense and commercial sectors.

Pre-sales tasks include winning designs using Edge. Cortix’s MERA™ Software Framework and the Edge. Cortix SAKURA-I™ AI inference devices, delivering technical presentations, demonstrating product capabilities, and working closely with the Edge. Cortix engineering and sales team to win customer projects. Post-sales tasks include assisting customers with their applications, training customers on Edge.

Cortix product best practices, providing benchmarks, and collaborating internal teams to improve the overall customer experience. About Edgecortix Edge. Cortix is driving innovation in semiconductor solutions for the connected intelligent edge. Established in 2019 and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with additional offices in the United States and India, the company develops silicon-based, energy-efficient AI processors purpose-built for Generative AI workloads at the edge.

The company’s patented hardware-software co-design methodology enables highly efficient runtime-reconfigurable AI accelerators, delivering industry-leading performance-per-watt for edge inference across defense, aerospace, smart cities, Industry 4.0, robotics and telecommunications applications.

Your Role

and Responsibilities Works closely with customers to promote Edge. Cortix technology, conduct Proof-of-Concept demos and write technical proposal to secure design win along with sales Performs architecture/design/implementation reviews with customer engineers to reduce production risk and accelerate the development cycle with Edge.

Cortix products Acts as the leader in field to provide prompt technical support to optimize the design and drive the closure of technical issue to customer satisfaction Builds deep relationship with customer key technical stakeholders and serve as a trusted technical adviser Works as customer advocate in providing feedback on Edge.

Cortix device, tools, software and solutions that meet customer technical requirements As a senior level position, the candidate is a highly motivated self-starter and requires little day-to-day supervision. Desired Qualifications Minimum of bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Sc. or related field with 5+ years of related work experience Knowledge of high-level language OpenCL, C/C++ and scripting language Python and TCL is desired Solid technical experience with GPU, FPGA, CPU or 3rd party ASIC devices used in AI inference or training Knowledge of various computing memory interfaces, PCIe interface and network interface is a plus Good understanding of computer architectures or heterogeneous computing systems is desired Experience communicating with hardware and software groups.

Experience selling into robotics, surveillance, autonomous systems, vision applications, defense and space industry. Embedded or Edge focused semiconductor/microprocessor related experience and computer vision exposure and experience Preferred Qualifications Solid understanding of latest LLM/VLM based AI solutions for the cloud or edge markets Experience with machine learning frameworks like Py.

Torch / Tensor. Flow or ONNX Can do attitude, execution and results oriented, highly accountable, innovative and a strong team player, with high integrity. Capable of handling difficult conversations in a professional manner. Embedded or Edge focused semiconductor/microprocessor related experience and computer vision exposure and experience What’s in it for you?

Make a difference: you will have the opportunity to join a well-funded and rapidly growing fabless AI semiconductor company that is disrupting the AI software and hardware across the edge AI landscape. Be an integral part of its growth and momentum.

Benefits

and Perks Highly competitive salary and stock options as applicable Flex work time Top-tier employee benefits