1 day ago
Folsom, CA, USA or Santa Clara, CA, USAEntry Level / Mid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$150k - $276k/yr
Responsibilities
- Optimize LLM, multimodal, and generative AI inference workloads for Intel GPUs.
- Design, develop, and tune GPU kernels and runtime components using C++, SYCL, Vulkan Compute, OpenCL, or similar parallel programming technologies.
- Develop and optimize graph compilation flows and compiler passes using MLIR, LLVM, or related frameworks.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks across compiler, runtime, framework, and kernel layers.
- Profile, benchmark, and analyze AI workloads to validate performance improvements.
- Collaborate with hardware, driver, compiler, and framework teams on hardware/software co-optimization.
- Contribute to and optimize open-source inference frameworks including OpenVINO, llama.cpp, vLLM, and PyTorch.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related field with 4+ years of relevant industry experience; or a master’s degree with 3+ years; or a Ph.D. with no prior professional experience.
- Strong proficiency in C++ programming, debugging, and problem-solving.
- Understanding of GPU architectures, graphics device drivers, firmware, AI accelerators, or parallel computing systems.
- Experience with performance analysis, profiling, and optimization of compute-intensive applications.
- Hands-on experience with modern neural network architectures and their execution on hardware accelerators.
- Preferred: experience optimizing end-to-end AI inference workloads in production.
- Preferred: familiarity with OpenVINO, PyTorch, TensorRT, ONNX Runtime, or similar inference technologies.
- Preferred: knowledge of quantization, kernel fusion, and memory optimization.
- Preferred: experience across inference runtimes, graph compilers, and GPU kernels.
- Preferred: open-source software contribution experience.
Benefits
- Competitive pay, stock bonuses, health benefits, retirement benefits, and vacation are included in Intel’s total compensation package.
- Hybrid work model allowing employees to split time between the assigned Intel site and off-site work.
- Primary locations are Folsom and Santa Clara, California.
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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.