Jobs at Cerence Inc.

Lead development and optimization of high-performance LLM inference pipelines across data center, edge, and embedded platforms. Improve latency and throughput via custom CUDA kernels, quantization, KV-cache and batching strategies, and deploy efficient, production-ready runtimes without external vendor dependency.

Lead development of the application and cognitive layer for humanoid robots: implement behavior trees and intent-to-action orchestration, build voice applications and multi-modal fusion, integrate robotics capabilities and edge/cloud AI services, and ensure production readiness with CI/CD, telemetry, and monitoring.

Own full sales and partnership cycle to bring voice AI to mobile service robots: engage senior robotics decision-makers, qualify and prioritize opportunities, close deals, and shape the commercial playbook while operating autonomously within a small technical team.

Lead technical engagements with robotics customers to design and integrate voice AI into mobile robots, own POCs and technical evaluations, clear deployment roadblocks, collaborate with sales/product/services, and feed customer learnings into the product. Travel across Europe for onsite evaluations (20–30%).

Own end-to-end software architecture for humanoid robot applications, design modular, production-ready platforms integrating robotics frameworks, AI, cloud/edge, and hardware constraints; lead technical decisions, guide POCs to deployments, and mentor a small engineering team.

Design and implement advanced generative AI models, optimize deployment in production, collaborate with teams, and stay updated on AI advancements.

Design and implement advanced Generative AI models, optimize performance for LLMs, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to innovate AI solutions within the automotive sector.

Lead design and training of large-scale transformer and hybrid foundation models across text and multimodal domains. Drive architecture choices (attention variants, MoE), optimize training stability and optimizers, validate scaling laws and compute/data tradeoffs, design loss and alignment strategies (RLHF, DPO, contrastive), and execute distributed training (FSDP, ZeRO-3, tensor/pipeline parallelism) with mixed precision and checkpointing while partnering with ML systems teams.

Lead design and training of large-scale transformer and hybrid foundation models across text and multimodal domains. Own architecture choices, diagnose large-scale training instabilities, optimize scaling tradeoffs (data, compute, model), design loss and alignment strategies, and execute distributed training (FSDP/ZeRO, tensor/pipeline parallelism) with mixed precision to build in-house foundation model expertise.