Cloud Customer Software Architect

Job Description

Join our team of innovative engineers and collaborate with the world's most influential companies, including industry leaders and pioneering tech giants, to revolutionize the way they run their workloads in the cloud and on-premises environments. As a Cloud Customer Software Architect, you'll have the unique opportunity to work hand-in-hand with these industry leaders, designing and developing software solutions that unlock optimal performance, scalability, and innovation. Your expertise will be instrumental in crafting seamless integrations between partner software stacks and Intel hardware, driving business success for our clients and shaping the future of cloud computing.

Your Mission:

• Collaborate with industry leaders to optimize full-stack software solutions, from firmware to applications, for deployment on Intel platforms in cloud, hybrid cloud, and on-premises environments.
• Optimize, design, develop, validate, and debug software to enable Intel hardware features in open-source and customer software, driving innovation and value for our customers.
• Develop reference cloud platform software and work with customers to optimize their designs, ensuring they get the most out of Intel products in the cloud.
• Specialize in specific technology domains, such as data services, AI/ML, or open-source development projects, and become a subject matter expert in your area of focus.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Benchmark and Analyze Workloads: Use advanced tools to benchmark workloads at scale and analyze performance to identify areas for optimization.
• Design and Implement Scalable Solutions: Create differentiated solutions to improve performance by leveraging Intel architecture features, ensuring scalability and efficiency.
• Contribute to Open-Source Projects: Design, implement, and upstream solutions in Linux kernel and other open-source projects to drive innovation and collaboration.
• Lead Workstreams and Collaborate: Lead workstreams and work with teammates to identify, develop, and upstream IA optimizations into Cloud Open Source Software, spanning Operating System and Middleware software.
• Propose Architectural Improvements: Provide recommendations for architectural improvements in future hardware and software products, driving innovation and growth.

A strong candidate will demonstrate the following skills:

• Communicating with customers, technical teams, and management to collect requirements, design and suggest experiments, analyze workloads, and propose optimizations.
• Utilizing and contributing requirements or features to tool sets.
• Expertise utilizing and analyzing one or more cloud workloads or workload categories, such as data services, web, AI, media, or other.
• Documented contributions to the Cloud technology industry for performance, workload and solutions, e.g. whitepapers, conference presentations, patents, code contributions, technical blogs.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science (or a similar field) with 7+ years of relevant work experience.
• Relevant work experience includes:
  • Utilizing performance tools for workload analysis and contributing optimizations and improvements.
  • Proficient in one or more of the following languages: C/C++, python, java.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in computer science (or a similar field) and 6+ years of relevant work experience or PHD with 4+ years of relevant work experience.
• 2+ years of experience enabling Intel Xeon platform features or implementing software optimizations.
• 1+ year of experience partnering with sales and marketing.

Inside this Business Group

The Data Center & Artificial Intelligence Group (DCAI) is at the heart of Intel’s transformation from a PC company to a company that runs the cloud and billions of smart, connected computing devices. The data center is the underpinning for every data-driven service, from artificial intelligence to 5G to high-performance computing, and DCG delivers the products and technologies—spanning software, processors, storage, I/O, and networking solutions—that fuel cloud, communications, enterprise, and government data centers around the world.

Other Locations

US, AZ, Phoenix; US, CA, Santa Clara

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 $196,830.00-$277,880.00

• 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.