Senior AI Software Development Engineer

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.

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.

• Familiarity with RDMA technologies and high-performance networking environments.

• Experience developing software for GPU, accelerator, or heterogeneous computing platforms.

• Open-source software development experience. 

• Customer-facing experience troubleshooting complex technical and performance-related challenges.

Preferred Technical Skills 

Experience with several of the following technologies:

Programming & Development

• C/C++

• Linux

Communication Libraries & Runtimes

• oneCCL

• MPI

• NCCL

• UCX

• Libfabric

• OpenSHMEM

AI & Accelerated Computing

• oneAPI

• SYCL

• PyTorch Distributed

• DeepSpeed

• Horovod

Networking Technologies

• RDMA

• InfiniBand

• RoCE

Performance Analysis & Debugging

• Intel VTune Profiler

• GDB

What You'll Bring

You are a highly motivated software engineer with a passion for distributed systems, performance optimization, and large-scale computing. You thrive in solving complex technical challenges, collaborating

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