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About This Role
For over four decades, Cirrus Logic has been propelled by the top engineers in mixed-signal processing. Our rockstar team thrives on solving complex challenges with innovative end-user solutions for the world's top consumer brands. Cirrus Logic is also known for its award-winning culture, which was built on a foundation of inclusion and fairness, meaningful community engagement, and delivering enjoyable employee experiences at every turn. But we couldn’t do it without our extraordinary workforce – and that’s where you come in. Join our team and help us continue to make Cirrus Logic an exceptional place to grow your career!
Our Customer Enablement organization defines semiconductor system requirements, develops technical documentation, and supports internal teams and customers in using our devices.
We are seeking an Applied AI/Automation Engineer to design, build, deploy, and support practical AI solutions that improve internal engineering workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and make technical information easier to find and use. This role will apply the latest AI techniques within scalable software solutions, helping move promising ideas from experimentation into reliable, maintainable tools that deliver measurable value. The role will involve designing solutions that are secure, measurable, maintainable, and useful in people’s daily work.
This role will also contribute to the development of documentation and information tools, scripts, and utilities. We eagerly pursue scripting, data modeling, and process automation to operate more efficiently in collaboration with work partner teams.
The ideal candidate combines strong software engineering skills with hands-on experience building AI-enabled applications.
Depending on business priorities, initiatives may include:
- Building LLM-powered assistants and copilots
- Creating AI agents and tool-integrated workflows that connect to enterprise systems
- Automating repetitive engineering and operational tasks
- Applying document intelligence, extraction, classification, and summarization
- Developing internal developer-productivity tools
- Designing evaluation methods, quality metrics, monitoring, and feedback loops
- Improving prompts, workflows, context retrieval, model selection, performance, and cost
- Establishing secure deployment patterns, access controls, and responsible AI practices
Success in this role means delivering AI capabilities that are useful, trusted, adopted, and sustainable in production while helping engineering teams use AI efficiently and effectively.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and implement new tools, scripts and utilities to help other engineering teams operate more efficiently
- Write clean, well-documented code with a focus on scalability, performance, and maintainability
- Conduct unit and integration testing to ensure code quality and stability
- Identify and prioritize high-value AI use cases aligned with business and engineering needs
- Design, build, test, and deploy AI-enabled skills, agents and workflows
- Integrate AI capabilities with internal data sources, developer tools, documentation platforms, and enterprise systems
- Create evaluation methods to measure output quality, reliability, accuracy, usage, and user value
- Partners with Applied AI and Security to ensureImplement safeguards for security, privacy, access control, and responsible AI usage
- Document how to use the tools, as well as architecture, design decisions, implementation patterns, and operational practices
- Stay current on the evolving AI tool and model landscape and recommend pragmatic adoption strategies
Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, including building and deploying production software
- Strong programming skills in one or more languages such as Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, or C#
- Comfortable working with source control (Git, SVN)
- Hands-on experience designing and building AI-enabled applications using large language model APIs, AI application frameworks, enterprise AI platforms, or similar technologies
- Experience integrating software with APIs, cloud services, enterprise data sources, data pipelines, and knowledge repositories
- Experience with AI evaluation, measurement, monitoring, observability, or feedback practices
- Working knowledge of AI governance, responsible AI, cybersecurity, data privacy, and access-control considerations
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience working directly with internal customers and cross-functional teams
- Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to define abstract problems, prioritize competing needs, and develop concise, actionable solutions in ambiguous and fast-moving environments
- Prior experience in the semiconductor or high-tech industry
Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Demonstrated ability to move AI prototypes into production, including testing, deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and retirement of solutions that no longer provide value
- Experience designing AI agents, multi-step workflows, tool integrations, human-in-the-loop controls, or agent security patterns
- Experience building reusable AI frameworks, platform components, skills, or developer-enablement resources that help other engineers adopt AI
- Experience optimizing AI systems for quality, latency, reliability, and cost through techniques such as model selection, routing, caching, batching, or context management
- Experience implementing enterprise AI security practices, including service identity, scoped permissions, secrets management, audit-ability, data residency, or protection of confidential intellectual property
- Experience with rigorous AI experimentation and evaluation, including test-set design, sampling, human quality review, inter-rater reliability, or measurement of user and business outcomes
Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.
Export control restrictions based upon applicable laws and regulations would prohibit candidates who are nationals of certain embargoed countries from working in this position without Cirrus Logic first obtaining an export license. Candidates for this role must be able to access technical data without a requirement for an export license. We are unable to sponsor or obtain export licenses for this role.
Cirrus Logic strives to select the best qualified applicant for any opening. Different approaches, ideas and points of view are both valued and respected. Employment decisions are made on the basis of job-related criteria without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, genetic information, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
Role Details
About This Role
AI/ML Engineers build and deploy machine learning models in production. They work across the full ML lifecycle: data pipelines, model training, evaluation, and serving infrastructure. The role has evolved significantly over the past two years. Where ML Engineers once spent most of their time on model architecture, the job now tilts heavily toward inference optimization, cost management, and integrating LLM capabilities into existing systems. Companies want engineers who can ship production systems, and the experimenter-only role is fading fast.
Day-to-day, you're writing training pipelines, debugging data quality issues, setting up evaluation frameworks, and figuring out why your model performs differently in staging than it did on your dev set. The best ML engineers are obsessive about reproducibility and measurement. They instrument everything. They know that a model is only as good as the data feeding it and the infrastructure serving it.
Across the 9,079 AI roles we're tracking, AI/ML Engineer positions make up 76% of the market. At Cirrus Logic, this role fits into their broader AI and engineering organization.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
What the Work Looks Like
A typical week might include: debugging a data pipeline that's silently dropping 3% of training examples, running A/B tests on a new model version, writing documentation for a feature flag system that lets you roll back model deployments, and reviewing a junior engineer's PR for a new evaluation metric. Meetings tend to be cross-functional since ML touches product, engineering, and data teams.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
Skills Required
Python and PyTorch dominate the requirements. Most roles expect experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and familiarity with ML frameworks like TensorFlow or JAX. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) has become a top-3 skill requirement as companies integrate LLMs into their products. Docker and Kubernetes show up in about a third of postings, reflecting the production focus of the role.
Beyond the core stack, employers increasingly want experience with experiment tracking tools (MLflow, Weights & Biases), feature stores, and vector databases. Fine-tuning experience is valuable but less common than you'd think from reading Twitter. Most production LLM work is RAG and prompt engineering, not fine-tuning. If you have both, you're in a strong position.
Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
Compensation Benchmarks
AI/ML Engineer roles pay a median of $211,950 based on 13,048 positions with disclosed compensation. Mid-level AI roles across all categories have a median of $193,200.
Across all AI roles, the market median is $213,000. Top-quartile compensation starts at $263,911. The 90th percentile reaches $318,400. For comparison, the highest-paying categories include AI Safety ($256,000) and Research Engineer ($252,000). By seniority level: Entry: $111,000; Mid: $193,200; Senior: $229,300; Director: $272,300; VP: $235,830.
Cirrus Logic AI Hiring
Cirrus Logic has 2 open AI roles right now. They're hiring across Research Engineer, AI/ML Engineer. Based in Austin, TX, US.
Location Context
AI roles in Austin pay a median of $209,100 across 306 tracked positions.
Career Path
Common paths into AI/ML Engineer roles include Data Scientist, Software Engineer, Research Engineer.
From here, career progression typically leads toward ML Architect, AI Engineering Manager, Principal ML Engineer.
The fastest path into ML engineering is through software engineering with a self-directed ML education. A CS degree helps, but production engineering skills matter more than academic credentials. Build something that works, deploy it, and measure it. That portfolio project is worth more than a Coursera certificate. For career growth, the fork comes around the senior level: go deep on technical complexity (staff/principal track) or move into managing ML teams.
What to Expect in Interviews
Expect system design questions around ML pipelines: how you'd build a training pipeline for a specific use case, handle data drift, or design A/B testing infrastructure for model deployments. Coding rounds typically involve Python, with emphasis on data manipulation (pandas, numpy) and algorithm implementation. Take-home assignments often ask you to build an end-to-end ML pipeline from raw data to deployed model.
When evaluating opportunities: Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
AI Hiring Overview
The AI job market has 9,079 open positions tracked in our dataset. By seniority: 106 entry-level, 4,384 mid-level, 3,343 senior, and 1,246 leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level). Remote roles make up 6% of the market (531 positions). The remaining 8,478 roles require on-site or hybrid attendance.
The market median for AI roles is $213,000. Top-quartile compensation starts at $263,911. The 90th percentile reaches $318,400. Highest-paying categories: AI Safety ($256,000 median, 66 roles); Research Engineer ($252,000 median, 457 roles); AI Engineering Manager ($251,622 median, 55 roles).
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
The AI Job Market Today
The AI job market spans 9,079 open positions across 16 role categories. The largest categories by volume: AI/ML Engineer (6,862), AI Product Manager (453), AI Software Engineer (451). These three account for the majority of open positions, though smaller categories often have higher per-role compensation because of specialized skill requirements.
The seniority mix tells a story about where AI teams are in their maturity. Entry-level roles (106) are outnumbered by mid-level (4,384) and senior (3,343) positions, reflecting that most companies are past the 'build a team from scratch' phase and need experienced engineers who can ship production systems. Leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level) total 1,246 positions, representing the bottleneck between technical execution and organizational strategy.
Remote work availability sits at 6% of all AI roles (531 positions), with 8,478 requiring on-site or hybrid attendance. The remote share has stabilized after the post-pandemic correction. Senior and specialized roles (Research Scientist, ML Architect) are more likely to be remote-eligible than entry-level positions, partly because experienced hires have more negotiating power and partly because these roles require less hands-on mentorship.
AI compensation is structured in clear tiers. The market median sits at $213,000. Top-quartile roles start at $263,911, and the 90th percentile reaches $318,400. These figures include base salary with disclosed compensation. Total compensation (including equity, bonuses, and sign-on) runs 20-40% higher at companies that offer those components.
Category matters for compensation. AI Safety roles lead at $256,000 median, while Prompt Engineer roles sit at $141,440. The spread between highest and lowest-paying categories reflects the premium on specialized technical skills versus broader analytical roles.
The most in-demand skills across all AI postings: Python (1,649 postings), Aws (898 postings), Azure (723 postings), Rag (671 postings), Gcp (536 postings), Pytorch (434 postings), Claude (410 postings), Kubernetes (406 postings). Python dominates, appearing in the vast majority of role descriptions regardless of category. Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) is the second most common requirement. The newer entrants to the top skills list (RAG, vector databases, LLM APIs) reflect the shift from traditional ML toward generative AI applications.
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