One last update around this job mentioning Brainchip Akida.

It seems Aerodyne Industries have now listed the same job on Indeed and their website. So it looks like they are the Defense company behind all this that is working with NASA and Brainchip, so KBR may also be working with them. I checked their website and this is their only job mentioning Brainchip or neuromorphic chips.

https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?cmp=Aerodyne-Industries,-LLC&t=Radneuro+Research+Engineer&jk=2e15005867e9d4eb&q=akida&vjs=3

RadNeuro Research Engineer (R2037023)

Aerodyne Industries, LLC

6 reviews

Mountain View, CA 94035

Full-time

Full Job Description

Job Description:
Aerodyne Industries is a dynamic, rapidly growing engineering and information technology services firm headquartered on Florida’s exciting Space Coast. With locations throughout the US, we take pride in delivering small business agility with large corporation capabilities. Our list of clients count on us to prepare NASA’s Mission to the Moon and Mars and defend our nation supporting the Missile Defense Agency and Department of Defense. Join the adventure of a lifetime by becoming a teammate with Aerodyne Industries and work on projects that will define our future.
The RadNeuro Research Engineer will, within the RadNeuro team, develop prototypes for the demonstration of embedded Neuromorphic applications in NASA-relevant areas, such as small UAS, rovers, or nanosats for the RadNeuro project. Modern neuromorphic processors provide high performance while using minimal power for tasks like vision-based rover navigation, entry-descent-and-landing, sensor fusion, or on-board decision making. Within this task, we aim to demonstrate selected capabilities using neuromorphic co-processors (e.g., Google TPU, Intel Loihi, or Akida brainchip) with a prototypical implementation on a small existing platform (TBD).

The task involves the integration of sensors and cameras with the neuromorphic system in an architecture typically involving small, embedded boards (e.g., UP-boards, ARM-based like Raspberry PI, Nvidia Jetson, or similar) with the NN-processor connected, potentially together with some custom FPGA configuration. A small and simple controller will be implemented to drive the demonstration system. Small amounts of embedded software (C, C++, python) will need to be implemented.

***Must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident***

Required Education, Experience, & Skills:

• Master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer science or related field
• 2 + years of relevant experience
• A mix of hardware and software integration and testing, especially associated with radiation tolerance for advanced processors
• Development of embedded software and low-level sensor interfaces on small platforms
• Programming skills in C (and/or C++) and python and experience with frameworks like ArduCopter/ArduRover or ROS
• Working knowledge in Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)
• Some experience in customizing existing platforms (UAS, Rovers) like mounting and wiring sensors, cameras, and control computers is necessary to facilitate a quick construction and assembly of the prototype demonstrators

Preferred Experience & Skills:

• Working knowledge in Deep Neural Networks (e.g., Keras or similar frameworks)
• Test Engineering
• Hardware and software testing
• Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)
• Technology maturation
• Systems integration, robotics
• UAV, rover, and/or Nanosat lab work

Job Type: Full-time

Work Location: Multiple Locations

Job location taken from Aerodyne website listed job:
https://aerodyneindustries.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posting/view/679
Ames Research Center - Mount View, CA 94035 US (Primary)