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Nordic Semiconductor · 8 hours ago

Senior R&D Engineer

Nordic Semiconductor is a leading company in the semiconductor industry, and they are seeking a Senior R&D Engineer to develop and improve their products and technologies. The role involves collaborating across teams, mentoring junior engineers, and solving complex technical problems related to hardware acceleration and machine learning models.

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Responsibilities

Develop and improve our products and technologies
Develop compiler component that translates tensor flow to hardware accelerator machine code
Develop scripts for accessing data sets and training models
Develop scripts to analyze performance metrics including accuracy, precision
Analyze models and create the transformations necessary to accelerate on hardware
Collaborate across teams and business units to integrate hardware acceleration and maximize end-use uptake
Collaborate and be recognized as a technical expert in other departments to identify and solve technical problems
Investigate and gain technical knowledge in potential adjacent technologies
Participate and lead in scheduled project reviews
Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives to improve product quality
Mentor and coach junior engineers to help them develop their skills
Analyze various machine learning models, identifying, and creating the necessary transformations to optimize them for hardware acceleration
Perform profiling and tuning of machine learning models on specialized hardware
Develop and debug hardware accelerator toolchains, compilers, and related software

Qualification

C/C++PythonNeural network frameworksHardware accelerationBash scriptingDockerCloud platformsIoT devicesCommunicationProblem-solvingTeam collaborationProject managementMentoring

Required

Master's degree in engineering or related field and at least 3 years of experience in product development, prototyping, testing and optimization
Three years of experience in C/C++ and Python
Three years of experience in Bash scripting for automation on Linux and Windows
Three years of experience in Zephyr OS and RTOS Systems
Three years of experience in Docker, containerization, and deployment tools
Three years of experience in Neural network frameworks like Tensorflow, TFLite, Keras for machine learning model development
Three years of experience in High-level machine learning frameworks and hardware acceleration to improve the efficiency of neural network execution
Three years of experience in Training and testing low power and low memory machine learning models for running on the edge NN HW accelerator
Three years of experience in Extracting model data from a tensorflow lite model and optimizing it for deployment on the HW accelerator
Three years of experience in IoT devices, wireless communication protocols (e.g., BLE, Zigbee, MQTT, etc) and communication protocols (e.g., I2C, SPI, etc.)
Three years of experience in Cloud platforms like AWS
Three years of experience in Typescript or JVM based languages
Good communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Good project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
Ability to mentor and coach junior engineers
Ability to take ownership of assigned tasks and work with minimal supervision
Ability to collaborate effectively with team members and other departments

Company

Nordic Semiconductor

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Nordic Semiconductor is a semiconductor company specializing in ultra low power short range wireless communication.

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Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$104.42M
2025-09-04Post Ipo Equity· $104.42M
2010-03-18IPO

Leadership Team

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Vegard Wollen
CEO
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Petter Myhre
Head of Product Marketing
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