AI Software Development Engineer - Neuromorphic Computing (m/f/d) (Fixed-Term) (AI)

Location: Hybrid, Germany, Munich; employees split time between the assigned Intel site and off-site work.

Salary: €79,130–€145,000 annual salary.

Company

Intel's CTO organization is developing a next-generation neuromorphic AI software platform for edge, robotics, and autonomous applications.

What you will do

• Design and develop compiler technologies for autonomous and event-driven AI workloads.
• Solve compilation challenges for massively parallel spatial architectures, including graph partitioning, placement and routing, scheduling, automatic kernel selection, and distributed memory allocation.
• Build compiler infrastructure with LLVM and MLIR, including domain-specific languages and high-performance kernels.
• Prototype and demonstrate AI workloads on neuromorphic accelerators.
• Collaborate with hardware, runtime, systems, compiler, and AI application engineers.
• Improve software quality through code reviews, automated testing, benchmarking, documentation, and modern engineering practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of experience, Master's degree with 3+ years of experience, or a PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, Physics, or a related discipline.
• Strong professional software development experience with C++ and Python.
• Hands-on experience with LLVM and/or MLIR compiler frameworks.
• Knowledge of Git, code reviews, testing, debugging, and CI/CD workflows.
• Experience with AI frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX.
• Strong English communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI compiler frameworks and deployment tools such as Triton, IREE, TVM, ONNX, or OpenVINO.
• Experience with AI accelerators, neuromorphic hardware, or heterogeneous computing systems.
• Experience with parallel programming and performance optimization using CUDA, OpenCL, or multithreading.
• AI model development experience in computer vision, NLP, large language models, vision language models, or signal processing.
• Experience with ILP, SAT/SMT solvers, or graph partitioning.
• Experience with Intel VTune, Nsight, cProfile, or VizTracer.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-moving environment with evolving priorities.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative work with researchers and engineers across hardware, software, runtime, systems, and AI applications.
• Opportunity to influence compiler architecture and develop breakthrough neuromorphic computing technologies.
• Focus on edge AI, robotics, autonomous systems, and deployment of research into production.
• Fixed-term position lasting 12 to 24 months.
• Hybrid work model with on-site and off-site work in Germany.