Principal Software Engineer AIML (Ireland)
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Principal Software Engineer to work on cutting-edge AI/ML applications and agent systems leveraging modern inference platforms to build production-ready prototypes. You will contribute to upstream communities like vLLM TGI PyTorch and OpenVINO while building innovative applications that demonstrate the capabilities of next-generation AI/ML systems. The ideal candidate is energized by working concurrently on a wide variety of projects independently as well as within a team environment.
What you will do:
- Build high-quality high-performing AI/ML applications and agent systems using modern inference platforms for multi-modal and distributed model serving
- Apply and optimize inference techniques including KV cache management model quantization and distributed serving to production workloads
- Contribute to upstream inference runtime communities such as vLLM TGI PyTorch OpenVINO and related projects
- Build multi-modal AI applications integrating vision language and other modalities
- Provide technical leadership and coordination across multiple stakeholders and engineering teams
- Apply a growth mindset by staying current with rapid advancements in AI/ML inference technologies
- Benchmark and analyze inference performance at scale driving data-driven optimization decisions
- Publicize innovations through blogs presentations conferences and other technical venues
What you will bring:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or equivalent experience
- 5 years of experience in AI/ML engineering with focus on production inference systems
- Deep expertise in PyTorch and modern deep learning frameworks
- Hands-on experience with inference runtime optimization (model serving batching KV cache management)
- Advanced programming skills in Python and C
- Proven ability to contribute to and lead open source projects
- Strong self-motivation and organizational skills
- Ability to work concurrently on multiple projects independently and within a team environment
- Excellent English written and verbal communication skills
- Collaborative attitude and willingness to share ideas openly
The following are considered a plus:
- Experience with vLLM TGI (Text Generation Inference) or similar inference runtimes
- Contributions to PyTorch OpenVINO or other inference frameworks
- Experience with distributed model serving and GPU optimization
- Familiarity with Kubernetes and cloud-native AI/ML deployments
- Knowledge of model quantization techniques (GPTQ AWQ FP8 etc.)
- Experience with CUDA Triton or other GPU programming frameworks
- Experience with diffusion models and diffusion transformers
- Experience building AI agents and agentic systems
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