Senior Network Security & AI Systems Architect

508 Intel Research & Development Ireland Ltd.; Leixlip; On-site; EUR 76,000 - 142,000; Full time

Job summary

Intel Corporation in Ireland is seeking a Senior Network Security Software Development Engineer to lead the architecture and delivery of open-source, high-performance network security and AI reference solutions for the Network Software Enabling team.

This role will work with architects, customers, and ecosystem partners to define requirements and build reference workloads optimized for Intel Xeon processors in on-prem, edge, and cloud deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in networking or systems software development.
• Strong programming skills in C/C++/Rust on Linux; Python, PowerShell or Bash for tooling.
• Hands-on experience with high-performance networking technologies such as DPDK, VPP, or XDP.
• Exposure to AI/ML techniques and models for security workloads.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and roadmaps for one or more network security reference solutions.
• Design and optimize packet-processing pipelines for throughput and latency.
• Integrate hardware acceleration into open-source stacks (e.g., Snort3, VPP, Hyperscan).
• Enable and optimize AI/ML models for security use cases (URL detection, phishing, anomaly detection).
• Lead performance benchmarking and develop customer-facing value collateral.
• Drive IaC automation for cloud/edge deployment (Terraform, Packer, Ansible).
• Evaluate emerging technologies and drive PoCs and reference implementations.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor engineers.

Skills

C/C++/Rust

Python

Linux

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical discipline

Tools

DPDK

VPP

XDP

Snort3

Hyperscan

Terraform

Ansible

Packer

Job description

Intel Corporation in Ireland is seeking a Senior Network Security Software Development Engineer to lead the architecture and delivery of open-source, high-performance network security and AI reference solutions for the Network Software Enabling team.

This role will work with architects, customers, and ecosystem partners to define requirements and build reference workloads optimized for Intel Xeon processors in on-prem, edge, and cloud deployments.