Application Engineer - Embedded Systems & AI

About the role

Arrow Electronics, a global leader in electronic distribution, is hiring an Application Engineer in Alcobendas, Spain. The role sits within a growing software team focused on embedded systems and cloud-based solutions, working with manufacturers such as NVIDIA, Qualcomm and NXP. The position is full time, permanent and fully remote.

Key responsibilities

• Build pragmatic, scalable and statistically rigorous solutions for embedded systems, autonomous vehicles, industrial applications, robotics and retail.
• Work with data and tasks related to computer vision, statistics, classical AI, SLAM and robotics.
• Work cross-functionally to define problem statements, collect data, build analytical models and make recommendations.
• Build and maintain data-driven optimization models, experiments, forecasting algorithms and capacity constraint models.
• Use tools such as Python, TensorFlow and PyTorch.
• Communicate recommendations and discuss use cases and requirements with internal and external stakeholders.

Required profile

• Degree in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Robotics, Mathematics or Statistics.
• 5+ years of industry or graduate research experience solving analytical problems and building models with quantitative, statistical or machine learning approaches.
• Recent graduates or those about to graduate are also considered.

Required skills

• Machine learning, statistics or data analysis tools and techniques.
• Data extraction, cleaning, analysis and presentation for medium to large datasets.
• At least one programming language (Python, R, C++ or C).
• Scientific computing packages such as NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Scikit-learn, dplyr or ggplot2.
• Statistics methods such as forecasting, time series, hypothesis testing, classification, clustering or regression.
• Data visualization libraries such as Matplotlib, PyPlot or ggplot2.
• Machine learning libraries such as PyTorch, Caffe2, TensorFlow, Keras or Theano.
• Nice to have: Kubernetes, ETL pipelines, embedded development on ARM64 and microcontrollers, and cross-functional work with DevOps and firmware developers.

What we offer

• Permanent employment contract.
• Flexible working hours and optional home office.
• Work from home available.
• Fully remote recruitment process.
• Access to the latest technology, often before official release.