AI SW Architect

Job Description

As an NPU Architect, you'll play a critical role in designing and optimizing next-generation computing systems that can efficiently handle complex machine learning tasks. Your expertise will help shape the future of AI computing, enabling the development of smarter, more efficient electronic devices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and Architect AI Software: Develop Intel's AI software from the ground up, encompassing the entire software stack.
• Technical Guidance and Oversight: Provide technical guidance and oversight during the development process, ensuring high-quality results.
• Software Structure and Validation: Define software structure and validation strategies for AI solutions, ensuring they meet technical requirements.
• Machine Learning Model Translation: Translate machine learning models and data processing techniques into functional software.
• AI Software Development: Develop AI software to address applied problems in diverse fields, such as data analytics and computer vision.
• Technical Roadmap Development: Lead the exploration and establishment of technical roadmaps for AI software development.
• Collaboration and Feasibility Assessment: Collaborate with industry technologists to assess requirement feasibility and prioritize development tasks.

A strong candidate will demonstrate knowledge in:

• Technical Expertise: Knowledge of parallel processing, memory hierarchies, and compute efficiency for AI workloads.
• Low-Level Performance Analysis: Experience with low-level performance analysis and optimizations for hardware accelerators.
• Neural Network Acceleration: Familiarity with quantization, sparsity, and mixed precision techniques for neural network acceleration.

Qualifications

You must possess the below minimum qualifications to be initially considered for this position. Preferred qualifications are in addition to the minimum requirements and are considered a plus factor in identifying top candidates.  

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, AI, or a related field.
• 4+ years of experience in:
  • AI architecture, hardware design, or performance optimization.
  • Deep learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, ONNX, OpenVINO) and their computational graphs.
  • AI accelerator architectures (e.g., NPUs, TPUs, GPUs) and their execution models.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, AI, or a related field.
• Experience in:
  • Defining hardware features for AI accelerators.
  • AI accelerator and computer architecture.
• Knowledge of:
  • Model compression techniques, distillation, and efficient AI inference.
  • Emerging AI workloads and trends in foundation models, LLMs, and generative AI.
• Strong programming skills in:
  • C++.
  • Python.
  • AI-related performance profiling tools.

Inside this Business Group

The Client Computing Group (CCG) is responsible for driving business strategy and product development for Intel's PC products and platforms, spanning form factors such as notebooks, desktops, 2 in 1s, all in ones. Working with our partners across the industry, we intend to deliver purposeful computing experiences that unlock people's potential - allowing each person use our products to focus, create and connect in ways that matter most to them. As the largest business unit at Intel, CCG is investing more heavily in the PC, ramping its capabilities even more aggressively, and designing the PC experience even more deliberately, including delivering a predictable cadence of leadership products. As a result, we are able to fuel innovation across Intel, providing an important source of IP and scale, as well as help the company deliver on its purpose of enriching the lives of every person on earth.

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.

Benefits

We offer a total compensation package that ranks among the best in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, stock, bonuses, as well as, benefit programs which include health, retirement, and vacation. Find more information about all of our Amazing Benefits here.Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in the US $149,750.00-$211,420.00*Salary range dependent on a number of factors including location and experience

Working Model

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.