Job Summary
The AI Core Components organization, part of AI Engineering, is looking for individuals with a passion for Open Source, automation and helping grow the impact of Red Hat’s AI offerings for our customers and the community. In the position of Principal Software Engineer you will work with a diverse team of highly motivated engineers on solving complex challenges by designing, implementing and productizing the RHEL AI product. Your focus will be on deep integration of the AI stack with hardware accelerators from leading vendors. This position enables you to impact Red Hat’s rapidly growing AI/ML family of products directly.
If you enjoy working in a rapidly growing, dynamic environment where each day provides interesting challenges and opportunities, this might be just the place for you. You will work together closely with Product Management, other engineering teams within Red Hat, as well as our partners and key customers.
At Red Hat, our commitment to open source innovation extends beyond our products - it’s embedded in how we work and grow. Red Hatters embrace change – especially in our fast-moving technological landscape – and have a strong growth mindset. That's why we encourage our teams to proactively, thoughtfully, and ethically use AI to simplify their workflows, cut complexity, and boost efficiency. This empowers our associates to focus on higher-impact work, creating smart, more innovative solutions that solve our customers' most pressing challenges.
What you will do
Design and lead the development and implementation of software for our AI development platform with a focus on leveraging the power of hardware accelerators.
Be an owner of product quality for our product set by looking to continuously improve process and coding standards
Work closely with Engineering, Product Management and Support stakeholders to prioritize features and bugs during all phases of development
Participate in the interaction with relevant hardware partners with a focus on getting key functionality included in their roadmap
Develop architectural and design principles with an eye on performance, resilience, scalability, security, technology constraints and comprehensibility.
Proactively utilize AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code) for code generation, auto-completion, and intelligent suggestions to accelerate development cycles and enhance code quality.
Explore and experiment with emerging AI technologies relevant to software development, proactively identifying opportunities to incorporate new AI capabilities into existing workflows and tooling.
Communicate architectural concepts and decisions to various audiences
Be a coach and mentor to more junior members of the team and help expand their skills sets
What you will bring
Strong experience with RHEL or other Linux distributions
Strong experience with software development with programming languages such as Python, Go or similar
Problem solving and troubleshooting skills with a focus on root cause analysis
Experience with container technologies, such as Kubernetes/OpenShift and Podman
Hands-on learning and demonstrable experience with implementing and owning complex features individually and in collaboration with others
Bonus Skills
Previous experience with hardware acceleration, either generic GPU experience or specific ones, such as CUDA and ROCm
Knowledge of AI frameworks, such as PyTorch and/or TensorFlow
Familiarity with containerization and orchestration
Understanding of Open Source development models
Experience with test-base development and agile/scrum methodologies
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