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# (Senior) Field Application Engineer - India at Axelera AI

- **Company:** Axelera AI
- **Location:** India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/axelera/eab3ca32-1b9e-4425-8162-1eeebd7a260b

## Job description

## About Us

[Axelera AI](https://www.axelera.ai) is not your regular deep-tech company. We are creating the next-generation AI platform to support anyone who wants to help advancing humanity and improve the world around us. In just five years, we have raised a total of $370 million and have built a world-class team of 250+ employees (including 60+ PhDs with more than 40,000 citations), both remotely from 20 different countries and with offices in Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy, the UK, headquartered at the High Tech Campus in Eindhoven, Netherlands. We have launched our Metis™ AI Platform, which achieves a 3-5x increase in efficiency and performance, and have visibility into a strong business pipeline exceeding $100 million. Now we are getting ready for our next step: Europa™, our next-generation AIPU. Our unwavering commitment to innovation has firmly established us as a global industry pioneer. Are you up for the challenge?

Position overview Are you an experienced engineer passionate about computer vision, machine learning, and embedded systems? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment shaping the future of AI? If so, join us at Axelera AI! You’ll manage technical interactions with customers in India, becoming their go-to expert and helping grow our Metis AI platform into a market leader. The Field Application Team collaborates closely with Axelera’s R&D teams across Europe and India to ensure seamless technical support. Your primary role is guiding customers through evaluation, adoption, and deployment of Axelera AI hardware, including PCIe boards, modules, and vision gateways. Most hands-on work involves using our Voyager SDK to deploy AI models and pipelines on these platforms.

Key responsibilities:

- Engage with customers in India to understand their needs, acting as a technical expert on Axelera AI’s platform.
- Address inquiries, provide product knowledge, and resolve technical issues directly or via R&D coordination.
- Solid understanding of server systems, preferably with hands-on experience.
- Collaborate with Marketing and Business Development on product launches and technology evangelism.
- Support Sales in expanding existing accounts, identifying new customers, and defending design wins.
- Track customer interactions, ensuring follow-ups and effective communication.
- Gather and relay customer feedback to Product Management for product improvements.
- Conduct competitive analysis through customer and industry insights.
- Assist in creating clear, compelling, and instructive product documentation
- Advocate for customers internally, ensuring responsiveness and driving product enhancements.

Qualifications:

- BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or equivalent work experience.
- 3+ years of experience in the semiconductor and/or Artificial Intelligence industry in a customer-facing application development or technical support role.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage with customers and internal teams effectively.
- Self-motivated and results-oriented, with a passion for staying up-to-date on the latest advancements in AI technology.
- Programming experience in a relevant area such as Python, C/C++, OpenCL, CUDA.
- Experience using a high-level ML framework such as PyTorch or TensorFlow
- Solid understanding of embedded systems and practical experience with embedded hardware.
- You have excellent communication and presentation skills
- Ability to travel to company sites as needed (expect 30%+ travel)

Location This is a remote position, based within or in close distance from the Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru, Mumbai, or Pune hubs due to the proximity to our clients.

## What we offer

This is your chance to shape and be part of a dynamic, fast-growing, international organization. We offer an attractive compensation package, including a pension plan, extensive employee insurances and the option to get company shares. An open culture that supports creativity and continual innovation is awaiting you. Collaborative ownership and freedom with responsibility is characteristic for the way we act and work as a team.

At Axelera AI, we wholeheartedly embrace equal opportunity and hold diversity in the highest regard. Our steadfast commitment is to cultivate a warm and inclusive environment that empowers and celebrates every member of our team. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to join us in shaping the future of AI.

## About Axelera AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Axelera AI develops cutting-edge AI hardware and software platforms for accelerating inference at the edge, using proprietary digital in-memory computing technology.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: Eindhoven, Netherlands
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed on primary sources

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: AI Hardware (Semiconductors), Edge AI Inference, Computer Vision
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise, and SMBs across industrial manufacturing, security & surveillance, retail, robotics, and healthcare
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "To lead the democratization of Artificial Intelligence, offering faster, easy-to-use AI acceleration while minimizing power and cost, to simplify AI at the Edge." [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/our-story)

## Products & Services
- **Metis® AIPU (AI Processing Unit)**: A family of edge inference accelerators starting at 214 TOPs, available in M.2 and PCIe form factors (1-AIPU and 4-AIPU cards). Delivers 15 TOPs/W energy efficiency. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/)
- **Europa® AIPU**: A higher-performance AI accelerator (629 TOPs) for demanding edge and near-edge workloads, setting a new industry benchmark for performance, power efficiency, and affordability. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/)
- **Titania® Chiplet**: A future chiplet designed to scale the D-IMC architecture from edge to cloud. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/our-story)
- **Voyager® SDK**: A software development kit with 100+ pre-optimized models, enabling deployment from model to production in hours, not weeks. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/)
- **Metis AI Platform**: Complete edge AI systems (M.2 and PCIe accelerator cards) bundling the Metis AIPU with the Voyager SDK for computer vision applications. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Total Funding**: Over $450 million in equity, grants, and venture debt since founding (July 2021). This includes a $250M+ Series C (the largest investment ever in an EU AI semiconductor company), led by Innovation Industries, with new investors BlackRock and SiteGround Capital. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/our-story)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $468.21M (per CB Insights). [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/axelera-ai)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Innovation Industries, European Innovation Council Fund, Invest-NL, Samsung Catalyst Fund, Verve Ventures, CDP Venture Capital SGR, Bitfury, Federal Holding and Investment Company of Belgium (SFPIM), imec, BlackRock, SiteGround Capital. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/our-story)
- **Growth Signals**: Ranked #3 in the Emerging Enterprise (201-999 Employees) category on Fast Company’s 2026 Most Innovative Companies list. Has taped out four chips since founding. Announced the Europa AIPU and Titania chiplet. Secured up to €61.6m from the EuroHPC DARE project. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/our-story)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary Digital In-Memory Computing (D-IMC)**: Performs matrix-vector multiplications in-place, eliminating data movement and delivering 50+ TOPs per core at FP32-equivalent accuracy. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/)
- **Industry-Leading Energy Efficiency**: 15 TOPs/W, enabling high-performance AI inference at the edge without power or thermal constraints. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/)
- **Full-Stack Solution**: Combines purpose-built hardware (AIPUs) with the Voyager SDK (100+ models, post-training quantization) for rapid deployment, significantly reducing time-to-value compared to GPU-based alternatives. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/)
- **Scalable Architecture**: D-IMC and RISC-V dataflow architecture scales from edge to cloud via the Titania chiplet roadmap. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/our-story)

## Strategic Focus
- **Democratizing AI**: Making high-performance AI inference accessible, affordable, and energy-efficient for any environment (edge to cloud). [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/our-story)
- **Commercial Expansion**: Scaling global commercial growth following the $250M+ Series C, with a focus on building out sales and field application engineering teams in EMEA and the Americas. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/careers)
- **Ecosystem & Partnerships**: Recently announced six new partnerships to expand the edge AI ecosystem. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/)
- **Product Roadmap**: Scaling the D-IMC platform from edge (Metis) to near-edge (Europa) to cloud (Titania chiplet), targeting a full range of inference use cases. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/our-story)

## Why Work Here
- **High-Growth Environment**: A well-funded deep-tech startup (over $450M raised) with rapid commercial traction, ranked #3 on Fast Company’s 2026 Most Innovative Companies list. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/careers)
- **Global & Remote-First Culture**: 248+ talented colleagues from 34 nationalities across 18 locations, with a strong remote/hybrid work policy. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/careers)
- **Cutting-Edge Technology**: Work on proprietary D-IMC and RISC-V dataflow architecture, with a roadmap spanning edge to cloud. The team includes 39 PhDs. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/careers)
- **Benefits**: Remote/flexible work, premium insurance, commute benefit, team-building activities, premium pension, work-life balance, cutting-edge equipment, fresh fruit at the office, and modern facilities. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/careers)
- **Values-Driven Culture**: Values include "Think," "Focus on the Customer," "Move Fast," "Communicate Openly," and "Agree & Commit." Emphasis on freedom with responsibility. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/careers)
- **Diverse & International**: 34 nationalities, average age 50+, with offices in Belgium, France, Switzerland, Italy, the UK, and headquarters in Eindhoven. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/careers)

## Sources
1. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/)
2. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/our-story)
3. [axelera.ai](https://axelera.ai/careers)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/axelera-ai)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/axelera)

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