Group Lead Edge AI

Location: On-site in Metzingen / Riederich, Germany

Company

hirify.global develops robot behaviors powered by on-device intelligence.

What you will do

• Own the roadmap for taking edge AI from research to shipped products.
• Hire, mentor, and develop a team of edge AI engineers.
• Deploy and optimize models on embedded accelerator platforms such as NVIDIA Jetson and Qualcomm IQ-series.
• Own the model export, inference optimization, and deployment toolchain, including ONNX, TensorRT, AIMET, and relevant SDKs.
• Collaborate with Hardware, Software, and Product teams within latency, power, and memory budgets.
• Lead benchmarking, on-device evaluation, performance regression testing, and hands-on debugging.

Requirements

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Embedded Systems, or a related field.
• 7+ years of ML or embedded AI engineering experience, including 2+ years of technical leadership and production deployment on embedded accelerators.
• Hands-on experience with embedded AI hardware platforms such as NVIDIA Jetson, Qualcomm IQ-series, or comparable systems.
• Expertise in quantization, pruning, distillation, architecture search, and model deployment toolchains.
• Strong Python, C++, PyTorch, embedded Linux, and low-level profiling skills.
• Professional English is required; German at B2–C1 level is a strong plus.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on technical leadership across research, hardware, software, and product development.
• Ownership of technical direction and engineering quality standards.
• Work focused on production-grade, on-device intelligence for robotic systems.