AI Performance Library Architect

Intel; Hillsboro (OR); Hybrid; USD 171,000 - 315,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock bonuses

Health benefits

Retirement plan

Vacation

Job summary

Intel's oneDNN project team is seeking a Software Development Engineer to design, implement, and maintain high-performance neural network primitives. You will work on cross-platform optimization, enabling AI workloads on Intel CPUs and GPUs while supporting the broader oneDNN ecosystem.

The role focuses on performance engineering, low-level optimizations, and collaboration with open-source contributors to ensure state-of-the-art AI performance across platforms.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, or a relevant STEM field.
• Ph.D. degree in Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, or a relevant STEM field.
• 5+ years of experience in C and C++, maintaining or contributing to open-source software projects, software libraries design and architecture, linear algebra algorithms, performance engineering, floating point arithmetic, software development on Linux, and low-level optimizations using CUDA, x86 assembly or intrinsics, or OpenCL.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain new functionality in oneDNN to enable performance-critical portions of AI workloads.
• Support software developers optimizing AI frameworks and workloads for Intel CPUs and GPUs, and for cross-platform ecosystem of AI software developers contributing to oneDNN.
• Collaborate with the Software Team to advance neural network performance and integration in AI applications.

Skills

C and C++

Open-source software

Software libraries design

Linear algebra algorithms

Performance engineering

Floating point arithmetic

Linux development

CUDA optimization

x86 assembly/intrinsics

OpenCL

Education

Master's degree

Ph.D. degree

Tools

CUDA

x86 Assembly/Intrinsics

OpenCL

Job description

Job Details

Job Description:

Software and AI (SAI) organization is looking for a software development engineer to work on oneDNN project ( https://github.com/uxlfoundation/oneDNN ). oneDNN is a complex cross-platform open-source software project focusing on neural network performance. oneDNN is a critical and highly visible component of Intel AI strategy, powering key AI applications including OpenVINO, Tensorflow, Pytorch, ONNX Runtime, and more. In this role, you will be responsible for design, development, and maintenance of new functionality in oneDNN to enable performance critical portions of AI workloads. In this role you will be supporting software developers optimizing AI frameworks and workloads for Intel CPUs and GPUs, as well as cross-platform ecosystem of AI software developers contributing to oneDNN.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements

• Master's degree in Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, or a relevant STEM field.
• OR
• Ph.D. degree in Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, or a relevant STEM field.
• 5+ years of experience in the following areas:
• C and C++
• Maintaining or contributing to open-source software projects
• Software libraries design and architecture
• Implementation of linear algebra algorithms (functions from BLAS, LAPACK, or PyTorch)
• Performance engineering and software performance optimizations
• Floating point arithmetic and numerical stability
• Software development on Linux
• Low-level performance optimizations using CUDA, x86 assembly or intrinsics, or OpenCL

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 years+ Machine learning and deep learning algorithms or High-performance computing (HPC) applications development
• 3 year+ Floating point implementations of transcendental functions (sin, cos, tanh, elu, etc)
• 1 year+ Algorithms for non-IEEE low precision data types (bfloat16, fp8, fp4)
• 1 year+ AI assisted software development

Job Type

Experienced Hire

Shift

Shift 1 (United States of America)

Primary Location

US, Oregon, Hillsboro

Additional Locations

US, California, Folsom

Business Group

The Software Team drives customer value by enabling differentiated experiences through leadership AI technologies and foundational software stacks, products, and services. The group is responsible for developing the holistic strategy for client and data center software in collaboration with OSVs, ISVs, developers, partners and OEMs. The group delivers specialized NPU IP to enable the AI PC and GPU IP to support all of Intel's market segments. The group also has HW and SW engineering experts responsible for delivering IP, SOCs, runtimes, and platforms to support the CPU and GPU/accelerator roadmap, inclusive of integrated and discrete graphics.

Posting Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Position of Trust

N/A

Benefits

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, stock bonuses, and benefit programs which include health, retirement, and vacation. Find out more about the benefits of working at Intel.

Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in the US: $170,500.00 - 315,490.00 USD

Work Model for this Role

This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site.

• Job posting details (such as work model, location or time type) are subject to change.

Additional Information

Intel is committed to Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) compliance and ethical hiring practices. We do not charge any fees during our hiring process. Candidates should never be required to pay recruitment fees, medical examination fees, or any other charges as a condition of employment. If you are asked to pay any fees during our hiring process, please report this immediately to your recruiter.