PhD Position â Heterogeneous Domain-Specific Accelerators for Physical AI (f/m/d)
PhD Position â Heterogeneous Domain-Specific Accelerators for Physical AI (f/m/d)
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Join a vibrant international R&D team at NXP Semiconductors where academic excellence meets real-world impact. Our team includes several engineers holding a PhD and an independent university lecturer all working at the forefront of AI Processor Architecture for edge applications. In this role your research will contribute both to academic advancement and to the development of technologies that power billions of AI-enabled edge devices. At NXP youll collaborate closely with fellow PhD students as well as Technical Directors and Fellowsour technological thought leaders. You will be co-supervised by a professor from a well-established European (typically German) university alongside your industrial supervisor who also holds a university lectureship and brings both academic insight and practical experience to your research journey. You will have the opportunity to work with real silicon and state-of-the-art industrial software stacks for machine learning. The environment actively supports publications conference travel and academic exchange.
Research Focus (flexible within scope):
- Heterogeneous accelerator architectures for robotics ADAS (e.g. radar lidar) and industrial AI
- Co-design of hardware and low-level software for real-time safety-critical systems
- Domain-specific compiler and runtime support for physical AI workloads
- Integration of sensor fusion and perception algorithms into custom accelerators
Your Profile:
- Masters degree in Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering or related field
- Interest in real-time systems embedded AI and heterogeneous computing
- Experience with hardware design
- Familiarity with AI workloads in physical systems or embedded systems is a plus
If youre passionate about AI hardware and want your research to reach millions of users in actual products this is your chance to make that impact while earning a PhD.
#LI-3da9Employment Type
Part-Time
