Field Applications Engineer

Inspire Semiconductor•Austin, TX

About The Position

InspireSemi is seeking a talented and driven Applications Engineer to help customers deploy and optimize software on its accelerated computing platform. The role serves as a key technical resource, applying programming and performance-tuning skills to high-performance computing and AI workloads. It includes supporting customer deployments and optimization, translating customer requirements into product specifications, developing technical content and training, collaborating on performance models for next-generation platforms, and building relationships with strategic customers and internal teams.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
At least 7 years of hands-on development experience in one or more HPC-AI application domains.
Excellent C/C++ programming skills.
Working knowledge of Linux.
Ability to measure and profile HPC-AI application-level performance at the node level.
Working understanding of OpenMP, MPI, or related parallel programming models.
Strong problem-solving skills, ability to analyze complex data, and attention to detail.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present technical information clearly to technical stakeholders.
Willingness to travel as necessary and ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.

Nice To Haves

Proficiency in Fortran.
Experience with competitive performance analysis.
Experience with graph analytics or other compute-intensive workloads.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary technical expert during pre-sales engagements, guiding customers through deployment, porting, and optimization of HPC and AI workloads on the Thunderbird platform.
Explain Thunderbird's architectural advantages and provide first-line technical support to maximize workload performance.
Translate customer application bottlenecks, workload profiles, and functional requirements into actionable specifications for hardware and software engineering teams.
Develop proof-of-concept demos, application notes, whitepapers, and benchmarking guides to accelerate customer onboarding.
Design and deliver technical training for the direct sales organization, field engineers, and channel partners.
Collaborate with research and hardware design teams to develop, validate, and refine performance models for next-generation accelerated computing platforms.
Build trusted technical partnerships with engineering leads, software architects, and technical executives at strategic accounts.
Coordinate with internal engineering, product, and sales teams to support issue resolution and alignment.