Summary
Richard Chevalier is a seasoned engineering leader with 13+ years delivering embedded and edge AI platforms, now serving as Vice President of Platform Engineering at Nio Robotics. He blends deep low-level expertise—HW bring-up, RTOS, drivers and processor architectures like ARM, x86, Ceva and TI DSPs—with hands-on ML inference optimization and quantization for Edge AI. A proven manager, he has built and scaled cross-site teams at Intel and BrainChip, driving productization from prototype wearables to production AI platforms and FOTA-enabled devices. His strength is translating complex system-level problems into pragmatic engineering decisions while keeping a strong customer focus and CI-driven development practices. Based in Toulouse, he brings a multicultural collaboration style and a track record of resolving critical integration issues that others deemed intractable. Peers know him for coupling meticulous low-level debugging skills with strategic platform vision.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s degree Computing Signal processing and Telecommunications, Master’s degree Computing Signal processing and Telecommunications at Télécom Paris
University-level preparatory classes, University-level preparatory classes at Lycée Pierre de Fermat
English, Spanish