Senior AI Software Research Engineer

Job Details:

Job Description:

We are looking for a Senior AI Software Research Engineer to turn cutting edge research ideas into high-performance, production-ready systems. You will bridge the gap between AI research and large-scale deployment, implementing algorithms that push the boundaries of efficiency, scalability, and capability in language and multimodal models.

In this role, you will:

Translate experimental findings and research papers into optimized, measurable improvements in training and inference.

Design and optimize deep learning pipelines using frameworks like PyTorch , JAX vLLM , sg -lang .

Explore and implement novel approaches to attention variants, state space models and efficient distributed training

Collaborate with research scientists, ML engineers, and infrastructure teams to move ideas from prototype to deployment with strong performance guarantees

Profile, benchmark, and tune large-scale models for speed, stability, and cost efficiency.

You'll work in an environment that values scientific curiosity, engineering rigor, and a bias toward shipping value products, while exploring frontier AI concepts.

Qualifications:

Required :
• M.Sc or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering or applied research, with deep expertise in Python and PyTorch .
• Strong understanding of LLM and multimodal architectures, including transformers, state space Diffusion models.
• Proven ability to implement ideas from AI/ML research papers into production-grade systems.
• Hands-on experience with AI frameworks such as vLLM , Megatron-LM, sg-lang

• Demonstrated skill in profiling, optimization, and scalable distributed systems for training or inference.
• Familiarity with algorithmic aspects of AI, especially efficiency and model compression.

Preferred :
• Contributions to open-source AI projects or published research.
• Experience with model parallelism, memory-efficient attention
• Knowledge of evaluation, and LLM fine-tuning pipelines.

Soft Skills:
• Collaborative mindset that bridges research and product needs.
• Mentorship orientation comfortable sharing knowledge with teammates of varied skill levels.
• Strong communication and organizational skills, with a drive to deliver value iteratively while pursuing long-term innovation.

Job Type:
Experienced Hire

Shift:
Shift 1 (Israel)

Primary Location:
Israel, Petah-Tikva

Additional Locations:

Business group:
As a member of the Chief Technology Office, Artificial Intelligence, and Network and Edge Group (CTO AI NEX), you will be committed to strategically penetrating the AI market by delivering disruptive and transformative solutions. Your focus will be on leveraging technology innovation and incubation to drive commercial success, ensuring that advancements create significant value. The team is dedicated to driving the software-defined transformation of the world's networks profitably, setting new standards for efficiency and connectivity. Through these priorities, you aim to lead the way in technological evolution and redefine the future of global networks.

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

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.