Senior Network Security & AI Software Architect

Intel Corporation; Kildare; On-site; EUR 76,000 - 142,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Job summary

Intel Corporation in Ireland (Leixlip) seeks a Senior Network Security Software Development Engineer to lead architecture, development, and delivery of high-performance network security and AI reference solutions for on-prem, edge, and cloud deployments.

You will optimize security data planes, integrate hardware accelerators, and drive AI-enabled security workloads, collaborating with customers and open-source communities to deliver Intel-powered solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in networking or systems software development.
• Strong programming skills in C and/or C++/Rust on Linux, with Python, PowerShell or Bash for tooling.
• Hands-on experience with high-performance networking technologies such as DPDK, VPP, or kernel networking/XDP.
• Exposure to AI/ML technologies and concepts, such as model training and inference, neural network architectures (CNNs, transformers), and LLMs, and how they apply to network security workloads.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to lead technical work across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and technical roadmap for one or more network security reference solutions, and keep design consistent across the portfolio.
• Design and optimize packet-processing and security pipelines for throughput, latency, and TCO on current and upcoming Intel Xeon platforms.
• Integrate hardware acceleration technologies into open-source security stacks such as Snort3, VPP, and Hyperscan.
• Enable and optimize AI/ML models for security use cases, utilizing OpenVINO, vLLM.
• Lead performance characterization, define benchmarking methods, and produce collateral showing customer value.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation for cloud and edge deployment, provisioning, and benchmarking using Terraform, Packer, and Ansible.
• Evaluate emerging network security, AI, and platform technologies, and drive innovation through proofs of concept and reference implementations.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and lead design and code reviews.
• Represent the team with customers, partners, and upstream open-source communities to speed up adoption of Intel-powered solutions.

Skills

C/C++

Rust

Python

Linux

Shell scripting

DPDK

VPP

XDP

AI/ML

OpenVINO

Open source

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Master's or PhD (preferred)

Tools

Terraform

Packer

Ansible

Snort3

Hyperscan

VPP

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenVINO

PyTorch

TensorFlow

vLLM

Job description

Intel Corporation in Ireland (Leixlip) seeks a Senior Network Security Software Development Engineer to lead architecture, development, and delivery of high-performance network security and AI reference solutions for on-prem, edge, and cloud deployments.

You will optimize security data planes, integrate hardware accelerators, and drive AI-enabled security workloads, collaborating with customers and open-source communities to deliver Intel-powered solutions.