3 days ago
Leixlip, IrelandSenior
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and technical roadmap for network security reference solutions.
- Design and optimize packet-processing and security pipelines for throughput, latency, and total cost of ownership on Intel Xeon platforms.
- Integrate hardware acceleration technologies into open-source security stacks including Snort3, VPP, and Hyperscan.
- Enable and optimize AI/ML models for malicious URL, phishing, fraud, anomaly-detection, and encrypted-traffic analysis use cases.
- Lead performance characterization, benchmarking, and customer-value collateral development.
- Automate cloud and edge deployment, provisioning, and benchmarking with Infrastructure as Code tools.
- Evaluate emerging network security, AI, and platform technologies 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.
Requirements
- 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, C++, or 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 concepts including model training and inference, neural network architectures, and LLMs.
- Strong network security experience with technologies or functions such as firewalls, IPS/IDS, IPsec/TLS, VPNs, deep packet inspection, or pattern matching.
- Experience optimizing AI/ML training and inference, including model compression, with PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenVINO, or vLLM.
- Experience with DPDK, VPP, Linux, or related networking and security open-source contributions is preferred.
- Experience with microarchitecture-level profiling and performance tuning.
- Experience with containers, Kubernetes, cloud or edge deployment automation, hardware acceleration, vectorized optimization, Snort3, Hyperscan, or comparable engines.
- Ability to lead technical work across teams and present solutions to customers, partners, and industry forums.
Benefits
- Annual salary range of €76,000.00 to €142,100.00.
- On-site work model in Leixlip, Ireland.
- Total compensation package may include additional pay components and benefits.
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About Intel
Intel is a public semiconductor company that designs and manufactures CPUs and other silicon for PCs, servers, networking, edge, and embedded systems, and also offers foundry services plus AI and graphics accelerators. Founded in 1968 and headquartered in Santa Clara, it sells primarily to OEMs, cloud providers, and device makers worldwide. Its portfolio includes x86 processors (Core and Xeon), Ethernet and chipset products, and the Mobileye autonomous driving platform.