Teams at Cerence Inc.

Lead enterprise sales for automotive dealer groups, owning the full sales cycle from pipeline development through close. Build relationships with dealer principals and operational leaders, conduct high-value discovery, lead pricing and contract negotiations, support demos and pilots, and convert pilots to paid customers. The role focuses on multi-rooftop deals, pipeline quality, revenue per deal, conversion rates, and representing Cerence at industry events. Approximately 30% travel to customer sites is required.

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.