Senior 5G Telco Cloud & AI Software Development Engineer

Location: On-site in Leixlip, Ireland; Shift 1 (Ireland)

Annual salary: €76,000–€142,100, plus potential additional pay components and benefits.

Company

hirify.global develops processors, accelerators, and software technologies for cloud, AI, telecommunications, and other computing environments.

What you will do

• Architect and develop cloud-native software platforms for integrating, deploying, and operationalizing AI-powered solutions in 5G Wireless Core environments.
• Lead the design and implementation of scalable distributed services and Kubernetes-based applications combining AI/ML, large language models, and cloud-native telecommunications platforms.
• Define technical strategies, architecture decisions, and solution direction with Solution Architects, Business Development Engineers, customers, and ecosystem partners.
• Deploy and optimize AI/ML workloads, inference, and model-serving frameworks using hirify.global processors, accelerators, OpenVINO, vLLM, PyTorch, and TensorFlow.
• Lead customer engagements, technical workshops, proof-of-concepts, and demonstrations; evaluate emerging AI, cloud, and telecommunications technologies.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship across cross-functional engineering teams while influencing customer strategies, partnerships, and solution architectures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of software development experience, including substantial experience with large-scale distributed systems.
• Strong programming expertise in C and C++.
• Production experience deploying, optimizing, and operationalizing AI/ML models, including AI inference, large language models, generative AI, and model-serving technologies.
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenVINO, vLLM, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience with GPU, accelerator, and heterogeneous computing platforms.
• Extensive experience designing cloud-native applications and microservices architectures, including hands-on Kubernetes and container orchestration experience.
• Experience administering, deploying, and operating OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), plus strong understanding of Linux-based development environments.
• Experience with 5G Core network architecture, cloud-native telecommunications platforms, software architecture, system design, performance optimization, and scalability engineering.
• Experience leading customer-facing technical engagements, translating business requirements into software solutions, and leading complex projects across geographically distributed teams; excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Nice to have

• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Telecommunications, Artificial hirify.globalligence, or a related field.
• Experience with 3GPP-defined 5G Core network functions and cloud-native network function (CNF) architectures.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, GitOps methodologies, and Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
• Experience with telecommunications operators, cloud service providers, or network equipment vendors.
• Knowledge of service mesh technologies, observability platforms, and cloud-native operations.
• Experience presenting technical solutions to customers, partners, and industry forums.
• Experience driving technical strategy across customer engagements, ecosystem partnerships, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Proven technical leadership and ability to influence architecture across large engineering organizations.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time experienced-hire position with an on-site work model in Ireland.
• Compensation is determined by skills, experience, education, training, and job-related factors.
• Total compensation may include additional pay components and benefits.
• Employment consideration is provided without discrimination under applicable local law.