Senior AI Field Application Engineer

Job Title

Senior AI Field Application Engineer

Role Summary

Remote senior field application engineer on Ceva's Americas sales team supporting pre-sales technical engagements, customer evaluations, and post-sales integration of Ceva Neural Processing Unit (NPU) IP. Collaborates with global R&D, corporate application engineers, and the US sales team to enable customer adoption and optimize solutions.

Experience Level

Senior. Requires 6+ years of experience in AI/ML development and system or SoC architecture for AI workloads.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include technical evangelism, driving customer evaluations, and enabling customer integration and deployment of Ceva AI products.

• Promote Ceva AI/ML products and address technical questions during pre-sales.
• Assess customer technical requirements and recommend appropriate AI solutions.
• Drive and manage customer evaluations in collaboration with Sales and R&D.
• Assist with integration of Ceva NPU IP and provide technical training and support.
• Optimize customer designs for performance, power, and area when integrating IP.
• Support sales and business development to penetrate accounts and identify leads.
• Build and maintain relationships with customer technical teams and management.
• Track customer project and technical information and report status to internal teams.
• Travel frequently within the US and occasionally internationally; work across US-Europe time zones.

Requirements

Must-have technical skills, experience, and work requirements.

Must-have:

• 6+ years of AI/ML development experience, including system architecture for neural networks such as CNNs, Transformers, and LLMs.
• Experience with advanced processing architectures (VLIW, SIMD/Vector, heterogeneous compute) and optimizing AI workloads.
• SoC design experience focused on deep learning accelerators, TPUs, FPGAs, or custom AI ASICs.
• Algorithm development experience for model optimization (quantization, pruning, compression).
• Strong communication and customer-facing skills; collaborative and goal-oriented.
• Self-driven problem solver able to work independently and drive issues to closure.
• Ability and willingness to travel frequently within the US and internationally a few times per year.
• Flexibility to work across time zones.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States (EAD or equivalent).

Nice-to-have:

• 10+ years of experience in complex system architecture and SoC design.
• Prior experience in field application engineer (FAE) or application engineer (AE) roles.
• Knowledge of DSP applications in consumer electronics such as cellular, 5G, wireless, voice, and audio.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related technical field (BS/MS EE or equivalent) is required.

About the Company

Company: Ceva

Headquarters: Herzliya, Israel

Ceva is a semiconductor IP licensor specializing in wireless connectivity and smart sensing technologies. It provides digital signal processors, AI processors, wireless platforms and software for sensor fusion, image enhancement, computer vision, voice input and other AI-enabled functions for connected devices.