Senior AI Software Development Engineer

About the role

Job Details:

Job Description:

Join Intel's Communications Runtime team and help build the communication software stack powering the world's largest AI and High-Performance Computing (HPC) workloads. As a Senior AI Software Development Engineer, you will architect, develop, and optimize the oneAPI Collective Communications Library (oneCCL), enabling scalable, high-performance communication across Intel CPU and GPU platforms.

In this role, you will solve complex distributed systems challenges spanning collective communication algorithms, communication runtimes, networking technologies, operating systems, and large-scale AI training infrastructure. You will work across the software stack, collaborating with architects, researchers, and engineers to deliver breakthrough performance for AI model training, scientific computing, and next-generation distributed computing workloads.

This is a highly visible technical role with opportunities to influence Intel's software roadmap, contribute to open-source communities, and drive innovations that scale across thousands of processors and accelerators.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and optimize collective communication algorithms and runtime capabilities within oneCCL.

- Improve scalability, latency, bandwidth utilization, resilience, and overall communication performance across distributed systems.

- Lead performance optimization initiatives for multi-node and multi-accelerator AI and HPC workloads.

- Investigate and resolve complex system-level performance, reliability, and interoperability issues.

- Collaborate closely with hardware architects, software engineers, researchers, open-source contributors, and strategic customers.

- Contribute to and influence open-source communication and networking technologies.

- Drive engineering decisions through data-driven analysis and performance insights.

Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 3+ years of relevant experience.

- Strong software development experience using C/C++.

- Experience developing systems software, middleware, runtime software, networking software, or communication libraries.

- Hands-on experience diagnosing and optimizing performance, scalability, and reliability in complex distributed systems.

- Experience in distributed systems, operating systems, concurrency, networking, and computer architecture.

- Experience developing software in Linux environments.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience with collective communication frameworks such as oneCCL, MPI, NCCL, RCCL, UCX, OpenSHMEM, or libfabric.

- Experience supporting distributed AI training, machine learning infrastructure, or HPC applications.

- Experience optimizing communication performance across multiple nodes, GPUs, or accelerators.