Middleware Development Engineer

The Software Team at Intel develops AI technologies and foundational software stacks, products, and services. They focus on client and data center software strategy, delivering specialized NPU IP for AI PCs and GPU IP for various market segments. The team includes hardware and software engineering experts responsible for IP, SOCs, runtimes, and platforms supporting CPU and GPU/accelerator roadmaps, including integrated and discrete graphics.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Strong systems programming in C/C++ with experience shipping high-quality, well-tested code in complex runtimes or low-level libraries.
• Solid understanding of modern computer architecture, heterogeneous memory models, concurrency, and performance engineering.
• Experience debugging and profiling software using symbolic debuggers, sanitizers, perf tools, and tracing.
• Excellent English communication skills for asynchronous discussion, code reviews, design docs, and RFCs in a distributed open-source environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with GPU programming stacks (Level Zero, CUDA, HIP/ROCm, OpenCL) and SPIRV.
• Experience with LLVM internals (libomptarget plugins, TableGen, Clang offload pipeline) or prior contributions to LLVM.
• Knowledge of Build/CI tooling (CMake, GitHub Actions) and scripting (Python) for automation and benchmarking.

• Design and implement runtime APIs in liboffload.
• Build and evolve backends/adapters targeting driver-level stacks (Level Zero, CUDA, HIP/ROCm, OpenCL).
• Modernize features inherited from libomptarget plugins to meet SYCL and OpenMP needs.
• Contribute upstream across LLVM projects: liboffload, libomptarget plugins, offload utilities, and SYCL runtime integration.
• Collaborate with compiler (Clang/LLVM IR/SPIRV), runtime (SYCL/OpenMP), and driver teams to implement new features.
• Engage with the community through design proposals, reviews, community calls, and documentation for language implementers.

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.