Teams at Cerence Inc.

Lead design and training of large-scale transformer and hybrid foundation models across text and multimodal domains. Own architecture choices, diagnose large-scale training instabilities, optimize scaling tradeoffs (data, compute, model), design loss and alignment strategies, and execute distributed training (FSDP/ZeRO, tensor/pipeline parallelism) with mixed precision to build in-house foundation model expertise.

Lead development and optimization of high-performance LLM inference pipelines across data center, edge, and embedded platforms. Improve latency and throughput via custom CUDA kernels, quantization, KV-cache and batching strategies, and deploy efficient, production-ready runtimes without external vendor dependency.

Customer-facing sales role responsible for owning direct opportunities and managing channel/distributor relationships to drive revenue. Duties include discovery, proposals, demos, negotiation, pipeline management, partner enablement, co-selling, event representation, and cross-functional coordination to support go-to-market and product launches. Targets include bookings, distributor-sourced pipeline growth, and executing partner workshops.