Senior Application Developer – Industrial Voice AI & Edge Applications

Key Responsibilities

• Cross-Device Application Development
• SDK & Middleware Integration
• Frontline Worker Applications
• Frontline Process Applications
• Embedded AI & SLM Integration
• Enterprise Connectivity

What You Bring

• Mandatory (Must Have)
• Deep Android platform expertise including hardware integration, background services, device management, and performance optimization.
• Industry 4.0 concepts including connected worker solutions, smart manufacturing, digital work instructions, digital twins, and predictive maintenance workflows.
• Manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, maintenance, field service, or EHS applications.
• OPC UA, MQTT, SCADA integrations, and industrial APIs.
• LLMs, RAG, AI Copilots, Agentic AI systems, and multimodal AI.
• Audio engineering including wake-word detection, Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC), beamforming, and microphone arrays.

Good to Have (Highly Valued Plus)

• Industry 4.0 concepts including connected worker solutions, smart manufacturing, digital work instructions, digital twins, and predictive maintenance workflows.
• Manufacturing, warehousing, logistics, maintenance, field service, or EHS applications.
• OPC UA, MQTT, SCADA integrations, and industrial APIs.
• LLMs, RAG, AI Copilots, Agentic AI systems, and multimodal AI.
• Audio engineering including wake-word detection, Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC), beamforming, and microphone arrays.

Education & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Embedded Systems, Electronics Engineering, Industrial Automation, or a related engineering discipline.
• Equivalent practical experience developing edge and embedded applications will also be considered.

What We Offer

• Salary range $107,000.00 USD - $172,600.00 USD
• Annual bonus opportunity
• Insurance coverage (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability)
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Company contribution to the RRSP (Registered Retirement Savings Plan)
• Equity awards for certain positions and levels
• Remote and/or hybrid work available depending on the position

About Cerence

• Cerence is a global leader in conversational AI and voice technologies, bringing intelligent voice experiences to automotive, enterprise, and industrial markets.
• Cerence Inc. (Nasdaq: CRNC and www.cerence.com) is the global industry leader in creating unique, moving experiences for the automotive world.
• Cerence is a new, independent company that has quickly gained traction as a leader in the automotive voice assistant space, working with all of the world’s leading automakers – from Ford and Fiat Chrysler to Daimler, Audi and BMW to Geely and SAIC – to transform how a car feels, responds and learns.
• Its track record is built on more than 20 years of industry experience and leadership and more than 500 million cars on the road today across more than 70 languages.
• This is an exciting opportunity to join Cerence’s passionate, dedicated, global team and be a part of meaningful innovation in a rapidly growing industry.

Equal Opportunity Employer

• Cerence is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of age, race, color, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sex, sex stereotyping, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, genetic information and other protected classifications.
• Cerence Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.

Security Policies

• Follow workplace security protocols and training programs to familiarize with the ways to maintain a safe workplace.
• Report any suspicious activity following security procedures.
• Respect for corporate security procedures to allow those procedures to be effective.
• Adhere to company's compliance and regulations.
• Encourage to follow a zero tolerance for workplace violence.
• Basic knowledge of information security and data privacy requirements (e.g., how to protect data & how to be handling this data).
• Demonstrative knowledge of information security through internal training programs.