Principal Software Engineer - AI Platform (Raanana, Israel)

Job Summary

The AI Core Components organization, part of AI Engineering, is looking for individuals with a passion for Open Source, automation and helping grow the impact of Red Hat’s AI offerings for our customers and the community. In the position of Principal Software Engineer you will have the opportunity to work on a variety of challenging new projects, bring them to a state of customer-readiness and help your fellow engineers to contribute to these projects. This position enables you to impact Red Hat’s rapidly growing AI/ML family of products directly.

If you enjoy working in a rapidly growing, dynamic environment where each day provides interesting challenges and opportunities, this might be just the place for you. You will work together closely with Product Management, other engineering teams within Red Hat, as well as our partners and key customers.

What we expect you to bring is a passion for both Open Source software and its communities, as well as a desire to contribute to Red Hat’s mission to help customers bring AI to their data.

Primary Job Responsibilities

• Examine new project opportunities, identify the right approach to meeting or exceeding the requirements for these projects and develop solutions with an eye toward quality, security,  maintainability, supportability, performance and resilience

• Work closely with Engineering, Product Management and Support stakeholders to prioritize features and bugs during all phases of development

• Participate in the interaction with relevant hardware partners with a focus on getting key functionality included in their roadmap

• Communicate architectural concepts and decisions to various audiences

• Be a leader and mentor for more junior members of the team and help expand their skill sets

• Participate in upstream AI/ML communities with a focus on learning more about the various technologies and how they might be used within our offerings

Required Skills

• Strong experience with RHEL or other Linux distributions

• Strong experience with software development with programming languages such as Python, Go or similar

• Problem solving and troubleshooting skills with a focus on root cause analysis

• Experience with container technologies, such as Kubernetes/OpenShift and Podman

• Hands-on learning and demonstrable experience with implementing and owning complex features individually and in collaboration with others

Bonus Skills

• Previous experience with hardware acceleration, either generic GPU experience or specific ones, such as CUDA and ROCm

• Knowledge of AI frameworks, such as PyTorch and/or TensorFlow

• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration

• Understanding of Open Source development models

• Experience with test-base development and agile/scrum methodologies

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