Sr. Principal SW Engineer, DSP and Algorithms (AI2469) Bengaluru, India
SiMa.ai
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Posted on Jan 9, 2026
Description
Job Title: Sr. Principal SW Engineer, DSP and Algorithms
Job Location: Bangalore, India (This position requires a full-time, on-site presence in our Bangalore office)
Job ID: AI2469
Description
Responsibilities:
- Help implement customer processing pipelines that include Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), Large Multimodal Models (LMM) for audio and video applications.
- Architect, Design and Implement Audio and Video Processing functions (APIs) for ML applications using on chip vector DSP and ARM NEON processors.
- Design and implement Python reference processing modules.
- Design and implement Gstreamer algorithm plugins for applications.
- Measure accuracy and throughput of processing modules and optimize performance and accuracy to meet requirements.
- Work with chip hardware team to define next generation algorithmic compute blocks.
Key Requirements:
- BS/MS in Physics, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science with 15+ years of experience developing system software for complex vision, audio, image or video processing applications.
- A strong knowledge of DSP, Image, Audio, Video, Computer Vision Algorithms and Frameworks is required, including common libraries like OpenCV and OpenCL.
- Good programming skills in C, C++ and Python in a Linux environment.
- Experience with DSPs, GPGPUs, SIMD or VLIW instruction sets such as ARM Neon, TI DSP, or any Vision processor like Cadence Tensilica, CEVA, RISC-V, Xilinx Versal, etc. is highly desirable.
- Strong mathematical foundation in algorithms, DSP and deep learning is desired.
- History of optimizing algorithms to align to HW platform capabilities, both for processing and memory transfer performance.
- Experience with 2D and 3D DMA programming and performance tuning.
- 2+ years of experience bringing up SoCs from scratch is a plus.
Personal attributes:
Can-do attitude. Strong team player. Curious, creative, and good at solving problems. Execution and results oriented. Self-driven, thinks big and is highly accountable. Good communication skills.
