**Change the world. Love your job.** Your career starts here! This is an exciting opportunity to design and develop innovative software solutions that drive TI's revolutionary product lines. We change lives by working on the technologies that people use every day. Are you ready for the challenge? As a Software Tech Lead, you'll become a key contributor, where your skills and input make a big difference. In this role, you'll design embedded software and development tools that will be used to test products. You'll write code that tells chips how to operate in revolutionary new ways. And, you'll work closely with business partners and customers, as well as TI's marketing, systems and applications engineering teams, to collaborate and solve business problems. **Job Description:** TI is considered to be one of the technology leaders in DSPs and purpose designed accelerator for high performance, low power embedded systems. These technologies part of our processors product portfolio fuels innovative and differentiated solutions in area of Machine learning and AI. TI Processors has a strong and robust software development team who focuses on solving some of the most challenging technical problems in automotive and industrial systems. TI EdgeAI technology offers a practical embedded inference solution for next-generation vehicles, smart cameras, edge AI boxes, and autonomous machines and robots. If your passion lies in creating optimized embedded systems with software innovations in cutting edge AI technology then, TI is the right place for you! As a Software Tech Lead – You will find yourself in middle of solving challenging problems in embedded systems. You will be working with small size, high impactful team who is responsible to deliver deep learning solutions on TI processors. Your work will involve design and development of deep learning inference software targeted towards ADAS and automated driving systems, robotics and industrial analytics. Your role demands you to work across the lifecycle of a software products from requirement gathering, planning, design, coding and testing **Skills needed:** + Great programmer: Programming skills in C/C++ and python, Modular and Object Oriented programming skills, familiarity with build systems – make, cmake, familiarity with Linux + In-depth knowledge of embedded systems – VLIW and SIMD processor architecture, DMA, cache, memory architecture, inter process communication + Working experience in machine learning technologies such as CNN, transformers, quantization algorithms and approaches for camera-based applications on embedded systems + Working experience with DSPs (preferably TI DSPs) and hardware development boards/EVM for image/vision-based processing algorithms + Good knowledge on machine learning frameworks (PyTorch), inference solution and exchange formats (ONNX, ONNX RunTime, protobufs) + Basic knowledge of RTOS and Linux with exposure to debugging of embedded systems - familiarity with heterogeneous core architecture is added advantage + Well verse with software development life cycle and efficient use of associated tools – Git, JIRA, bitbucket, Jenkins, containers (Dockers), CI/CD + Strong Communication, documentation and writing skills **Primary responsibilities:** + Design and Development of deep learning inference software on TI DSPs and accelerators. Analyze performance, identify optimization areas and optimize the software to entitle the hardware capabilities. Integration of this optimized inference solution with opensource run time frameworks such as ONNX Runtime /TFLite Runtime + Delivering software that scales across multiple SOCs: different OS, single to multi core architectures, different memory architecture + Analyzes and writes test and procedures for the software developed + Manage software deliverables from end user point of view – ease of use, well documented code, design documents. Participate in customer discussion and understand their requirements and implement it in software + Develop application specific software demos and examples related to end equipment which enables to benchmark TI processor capability and help customer to get started on their product development + Work with hardware architecture and design teams to feed improvement areas for next generation DSPs and accelerator for machine learning applications. Also work on pre-silicon software development environments such as simulators, Zebu **Why TI?** + Engineer your future. We empower our employees to truly own their career and development. Come collaborate with some of the smartest people in the world to shape the future of electronics. + We're different by design. Diverse backgrounds and perspectives are what push innovation forward and what make TI stronger. We value each and every voice, and look forward to hearing yours. Meet the people of TI (https://edbz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX/pages/4012) + Benefits that benefit you. We offer competitive pay and benefits designed to help you and your family live your best life. Your well-being is important to us. **About Texas Instruments** Texas Instruments Incorporated (Nasdaq: TXN) is a global semiconductor company that designs, manufactures and sells analog and embedded processing chips for markets such as industrial, automotive, personal electronics, communications equipment and enterprise systems. At our core, we have a passion to create a better world by making electronics more affordable through semiconductors. This passion is alive today as each generation of innovation builds upon the last to make our technology more reliable, more affordable and lower power, making it possible for semiconductors to go into electronics everywhere. Learn more at TI.com . Texas Instruments is an equal opportunity employer and supports a diverse, inclusive work environment. If you are interested in this position, please apply to this requisition. **Minimum Requirements:** + Bachelor/ Master’s degree (or equivalent experience) or PhD in Computer Science, Electronics, Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or Applied Math + 6-10 years of industry experience in embedded system and software in domain of machine learning **IS / IS NOT** + Since Artificial intelligence and machine learning is very vast field and it requires varying expertise in different domains such as data scientist, cloud infrastructure an dev ops, model design and training, model deployment on embedded device or cloud and many more. Each of them itself is an area to build career and expertise. However, this role is more focused on deployment of models on embedded devices. So in order to help understand better, please refer below table for critical skill set and experience required for this job. + Below listed skill set under “IS” category are must and “IS NOT” are nice to have but in absence of skill set under “IS” category the suitability for this job is very poor. So encourage all aspirants to consider this before applying for this job **This Role IS NOT** **This Role IS** Data Scientist Expertise on optimizing NN layers/ operators for embedded devices such as DSP or NN accelerators Good insight about critical instruction set to optimize ML model inference Expertise in model design and achieving best accuracy Expertise on data flow and memory management for optimal execution of ML model on an embedded SOC with DSP/accelerator and connectivity to on chip memory and external memory. Experience with utilizing on chip memory best and minimize access to external memory Working experience with DMA, good knowledge on processer architecture such as cache, DMA, memory banking structure etc Cloud infrastructure and dev ops expertise Expertise in scheduling ML model across multiple cores and understanding data dependency challenges to achieve it Good knowledge on quantization of ML models for fixed point inference and associated challenges Good programming skills with C/C++ and Python