Principal Software Engineer – AI Inference & Acceleration

Nutanix; Cork; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary, stock and performance bonus

Maternity/Paternity Leave

Relocation and immigration support

Life, Medical and Travel Insurance

Employee stock purchase scheme

Subsidised memberships

Job summary

Qualcomm is seeking ambitious engineers for software and systems roles in Cork, Ireland. You will contribute across the full product life cycle from R&D to deployment, emphasizing performance modeling, neural networks, and LLMs with a strong focus on high-performance multicore software.

You will collaborate across teams, deliver commercial software, and participate in framework services like vLLM. A relevant advanced degree with years of experience is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Information Systems or related field with 8+ years in hardware/software/Systems Eng.
• Master's degree with 7+ years, or PhD with 6+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience delivering commercial software across product life cycle.

Responsibilities

• Staff engineers at multiple levels for systems & software, integration and test.
• Design, develop and optimize high-performance software for multicore systems.
• Analyze performance of software/hardware on multi-core architectures and SoCs.
• Work across R&D to commercialization with cross-functional teams.

Skills

PyTorch

Performance modeling

Neural networks

C++

Python

Multicore architectures

Communication

LLMs / AI

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Information Systems

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

vLLM

Deep Learning frameworks

C++

Python

Job description

Qualcomm is seeking ambitious engineers for software and systems roles in Cork, Ireland. You will contribute across the full product life cycle from R&D to deployment, emphasizing performance modeling, neural networks, and LLMs with a strong focus on high-performance multicore software.

You will collaborate across teams, deliver commercial software, and participate in framework services like vLLM. A relevant advanced degree with years of experience is preferred.