Sr AI Driver Architect - Neuromorphic Computing - United States
$201,580 - $284,580 USD yearly
Originally posted 5 October 2026 by the employer.
Architect and lead the development of device drivers and firmware for Intel's product-grade neuromorphic AI execution stack.
About the role
This role involves architecting and leading the development of device drivers and firmware for Intel's product-grade neuromorphic AI execution stack targeting edge and robotic systems. The neuromorphic computing technology harnesses event-driven, sparse, and massively parallel neuro-inspired processing.
What you'll do
- Define and drive the technical vision, architecture, and roadmap for Intel's neuromorphic driver and firmware stack, contributing hands-on to critical design and implementation. - Architect, develop, and optimize device driver and firmware components covering command submission and execution control, memory mapping, data movement, interrupts, power management, and reset and recovery. - Partner with hardware architects to define the hardware/software interface of future silicon and drive software bring-up from pre-silicon modeling and emulation through post-silicon power-on and tuning. - Own the production readiness of this layer, including security, reliability, diagnosability, serviceability, and validation for release and field support. - Collaborate with runtime, compiler, application, and validation teams, as well as customers and external partners, to translate platform and workload requirements into robust software capabilities. - Provide technical leadership across the driver and firmware area by establishing engineering practices and mentoring engineers.
What you'll need
- 5+ years of experience developing and shipping production device drivers and device firmware, or comparable low-level systems software, for accelerators, GPUs, or other complex hardware devices, including the interfaces between them. - 5+ years of experience leading the architecture and design of driver or firmware subsystems for complex hardware platforms, including defining technical direction and guiding implementation. - 5+ years of experience defining hardware/software interfaces with hardware architects, and leading software bring-up from pre-silicon development on virtual platforms, simulators, emulation, or FPGA, through post-silicon power-on, validation, and tuning. - 5+ years of experience designing driver or firmware subsystems for production readiness, covering security, reliability, recovery, tracing, telemetry, and diagnostics to debug across hardware, firmware, driver, operating system, and runtime boundaries. - 5+ years of experience mentoring engineers and leading delivery across cross-functional teams spanning hardware, firmware, systems software, and validation. - 10+ years of hands-on experience developing maintainable, production-grade systems software in C/C++, with proficiency in Python for tooling, automation, and validation, using disciplined engineering practices such as design and code reviews, profiling, benchmarking, regression testing, build/toolchain management, and CI/CD. - 1+ years of hands-on experience with agentic software engineering, routinely using AI agents to design, implement, test, and review production code.
Nice to have
- Experience with Linux device driver development, embedded or real-time Linux, or RTOS-based firmware, including upstream contribution or formal driver qualification and certification for production platforms. - Experience integrating drivers and firmware with accelerator runtimes and programming models such as oneAPI Level Zero, OpenVINO, CUDA, SYCL, or OpenCL. - Experience with platform security, including secure boot, firmware signing and attestation, and firmware update and recovery flows. - Experience bringing up and scaling multi-chip accelerator systems, including device-to-device interconnects and both PCIe-attached and SoC-integrated form factors. - Experience with parallel computing paradigms or spatial, dataflow, event-driven, or other unconventional AI hardware accelerators. - Experience in HW/SW co-design, hardware simulator or emulation model development, or performance modeling. - Experience delivering embedded or edge accelerator platforms under real-time, reliability, or power constraints, including robotics software ecosystems such as ROS 2. - Prior contributions to open-source software projects.
Skills: device drivers, firmware, neuromorphic, AI accelerators, hardware/software interface, pre-silicon, post-silicon
This role has been open 10 days — well below the 85-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
33
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Median days open
85 d
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Median salary
$269k
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| Metric | Intel Corporation | All employers we track in this specialty (33 roles · 20 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 1 | 33 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 201 | 6156 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 10 d | 85 d (−75 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $269k |
Skills observed across this category: device drivers, firmware, neuromorphic, AI accelerators, hardware/software interface, pre-silicon
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 7 open roles · median 85 d
- Qualcomm · 4 open roles · median 108 d
- Cerebras · 2 open roles · median 58 d
- GlobalFoundries · 2 open roles · median 44 d
- MatX · 2 open roles · median 152 d
- Teradyne · 2 open roles · median 131 d
How we counted: 33 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Systems Software) roles from 20 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 16 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.