MLOps Engineer [HPC AI]

Company Description

Renesas is one of the top global semiconductor companies in the world. We strive to develop a safer, healthier, greener, and smarter world, and our goal is to make every endpoint intelligent by offering product solutions in the automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT markets. Our robust product portfolio includes world-leading MCUs, SoCs, analog and power products, plus Winning Combination solutions that curate these complementary products. We are a key supplier to the world’s leading manufacturers of electronics you rely on every day; you may not see our products, but they are all around you.

Renesas employs roughly 21,000 people in more than 30 countries worldwide. As a global team, our employees actively embody the Renesas Culture, our guiding principles based on five key elements: Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative, and Entrepreneurial. Renesas believes in, and has a commitment to, diversity and inclusion, with initiatives and a leadership team dedicated to its resources and values. At Renesas, we want to build a sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. Join us and build your future by being part of what’s next in electronics and the world.

Job Description

Overview

In this role, you will be part of the AI & Cloud Engineering (ACE) Division and MLOps team. We are developing a comprehensive AI strategy that delivers a highly flexible platform to explore new Deep Learning / Machine Learning model architectures, combined with auto-tuned high performance for production environments across a wide range of hardware architectures. The platform can improve performance, developer efficiency & deployment velocity of both AI training and inference.

As an MLOps team member, you will develop the best-in-class software toolchain for AI software & hardware to support internal and external customers, which serves as the backbone of all products in our division. You will work closely with AI engineers to build innovative software tools to power the entire AI development lifecycle from developing and analyzing AI models to testing and loading the models on the hardware. You will then integrate the tools into a software platform delivered to our customers. You will apply software development best practices to design features, improve performance and deliver software. You will gain valuable experience in developing commercial grade MLOps products and will help in driving next generation hardware software co-design for AI domain specific problems.

Our division’s mission is to use the latest AI and cloud technologies to develop the best AI inference for advanced driver safety engineers building self-driving vehicles and other high performance compute products. Renesas is the leading automotive electronics supplier globally, and this is a rare opportunity to deploy your AI software to the billions of devices we ship to customers every year. You will join our newly formed AI & Cloud Engineering organization of around 100 software engineers. Due to strong demand for our AI-related products we are planning to triple in size in the next three years, so there is lots of room for you to help us grow the team together while remaining small. We are focusing on our hiring into our Tokyo, Beijing and Singapore sites. If you are successful and living outside of these cities, we can support your relocation to one of the three sites based on team needs.

Responsibilities

• Design the AI/ML pipelines and engineering infrastructure to support internal and external machine learning systems at scale.

• Develop and deploy scalable tools and services to handle machine learning training and inference.

• Identify and evaluate new technologies to improve performance, maintainability, and reliability of machine learning systems.

• Apply software engineering rigor and best practices to machine learning, including CI/CD, automation, etc.

• Support model development, with an emphasis on auditability, versioning, and data security

• Facilitate the development and deployment of proof-of-concept machine learning systems.

• Communicate with clients to build requirements and track progress

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in computer science, machine learning, mathematics, physics, electrical engineering or related field.

• Experience building end-to-end systems as a Platform Engineer, ML DevOps Engineer, or Data Engineer (or equivalent)

• Strong software engineering skills in complex, multi-language systems

• Experience in C/C++, Python, or other related programming language

• Experience working with cloud computing and database systems

• Experience building custom integrations between cloud-based systems using APIs

• Experience developing and maintaining ML systems built with open source tools

• Experience developing with containers and Kubernetes in cloud computing environments

• Familiarity with one or more data-oriented workflow orchestration frameworks (KubeFlow, Airflow, Argo, etc.)

• Understanding of software testing, benchmarking, and continuous integration

• Experience working with machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, ONNX etc.

• Understanding of System-on-Chip is a plus.

• Ability to speak and write in English at a business level.

Additional Information

Renesas Electronics Corporation empowers a safer, smarter and more sustainable future where technology helps make our lives easier. The leading global provider of microcontrollers, Renesas combines our expertise in embedded processing, analog, power and connectivity to deliver complete semiconductor solutions. These Winning Combinations accelerate time to market for automotive, industrial, infrastructure and IoT applications, enabling billions of connected, intelligent devices that enhance the way people work and live. Learn more at www.renesas.com.

Renesas’ mission, To Make Our Lives Easier, is underpinned by our company culture, TAGIE. TAGIE stands for Transparent, Agile, Global, Innovative and Entrepreneurial. Our goal is to embed this unique culture in everything we do to succeed as a company and create trust with our diverse colleagues, customers and stakeholders.

Renesas Electronics is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, committed to supporting diversity and fostering a work environment free of discrimination on the basis of sex, race, religion, national origin, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. For more information, please read our Diversity & Inclusion Statement.