Senior AI Software Development Engineer

Job Details: Job Description: 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. Qualifications: 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 computin