"Senior Software Engineer Linux, Waterford, Ireland (hybrid)

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 Senior Software Engineer you will work with a diverse team of highly motivated engineers on solving complex challenges by designing, implementing and productizing the RHEL AI product. Your focus will be on deep integration of the AI stack with hardware accelerators from leading vendors. 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.

What you will do

• Contribute to the development and implementation of software for RHEL AI to leverage the power of hardware accelerators. 

• Contribute to product quality for our product set by looking to continuously improve process and coding standards 

• Work closely with teams within AI Engineering, where collaboration opportunities present themselves

• Provide input to architectural and design principles that help improve overall development within the group

• Learn and help implement the architectural concepts that are key to the development of our product set

• Mentor more  junior members of the team and help expand their skills

• Look for opportunities to contribute to upstream AI/ML communities that are relevant to our product offerings.

What you will bring

• Experience with RHEL or other Linux distributions

• Solid 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

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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