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# AI Infrastructure Engineer

- **Company:** Intel Corporation
- **Location:** Folsom, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, General-Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units, Python (Programming Language), Open Source Technology, Performance Tuning, Data Driven Tests, Software Engineering, AI Infrastructure, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Pytorch, Large Language Models, C++14
- **Published:** August 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://us.experteer.com/career/view-jobs/ai-infrastructure-engineer-folsom-ca-usa-58865091

## About the Role

GenAI Tasks * 4+ years of software engineering experience in GPU computing, AI systems, or HPC (or 3+ years with a Masters, or PhD) * Proficiency in modern C++ and Python * Ability to read and modify complex systems-level code Key requirements * competitive pay * stock bonuses * health insurance * retirement plan * vacation

## Description

Experteer Overview In this role you will push LLM inference on Intel GPUs to peak performance. You will work across the stack, profiling bottlenecks, developing high-performance kernels, and upstreaming optimizations into open-source projects like vLLM and SGLang. You'll shape hardware roadmaps through data-driven analysis and cross-team collaboration. This is a hands-on, impact-driven position that ties AI workloads to Intel's hardware strategy. Compensation / Benefits * Own end-to-end optimization of running state-of-the-art LLMs on Intel GPUs * Profile, diagnose, and resolve cross-stack performance bottlenecks * Design, write, and optimize custom high-performance kernels for attention, MoE, quantization, and operator fusions * Upstream architectural improvements into open-source repos like vLLM, SGLang, and PyTorch * Collaborate with architecture and compiler teams to shape future GPU roadmaps based on GenAI workloads * Promote AI infrastructure and performance optimization initiatives Tasks * 4+ years of software engineering experience in GPU computing, AI systems, or HPC (or 3+ years with a Masters, or PhD) * Proficiency in modern C++ and Python * Ability to read and modify complex systems-level code Key requirements * competitive pay * stock bonuses * health insurance * retirement plan * vacation


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