AI Software Validation Engineer

The Role and Impact

As an AI Frameworks Engineer in the Conversion, Performance, and Accuracy team, you will play a critical role in enabling the latest GenAI and Deep Learning models within the OpenVINO™ ecosystem. Your day-to-day focus will be Model Enabling Support. You will be a key member of the team responsible for building the performance and accuracy measurement frameworks, automation pipelines, and testing ecosystems that validate new AI models. By delivering reliable test environments and clear validation results, you will directly support and accelerate the integration of the newest AI models into OpenVINO™ and Optimum-Intel, helping us scale support for a wider scope of cutting-edge AI architectures.

Business Group

The Software Group at Intel is driven by innovation, focusing on developing world-class tools and platforms that empower developers globally. As part of this team, you will contribute directly to Intel's broad mission of delivering robust, scalable, and high-performance AI inference on Intel hardware (CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs) by ensuring the OpenVINO ecosystem remains compatible with the newest state-of-the-art models.

Key Responsibilities

• Model Enabling & Integration: Enable and validate new AI models in OpenVINO, Optimum-Intel, and internal performance and accuracy tools.
• Benchmarking & Evaluation: Evaluate quantized and native models on Intel hardware, collecting critical metrics for performance, memory consumption, and accuracy.
• Tool Development: Actively develop and extend opensource benchmarking and validation tools to unblock validation capabilities for new models.
• Automation & CI/CD Pipelines: Build and maintain dedicated daily pipelines for model enabling, using Jenkins (utilizing Groovy and Python scripting).
• Automated Log Analysis: Design and implement automated solutions to parse execution logs and pinpoint required changes or additions for successful model enablement.
• Process & Workload Optimization: Continuously identify bottlenecks in validation workloads, test execution cycles, and infrastructure; drive initiatives to streamline team workflows and operational efficiency.
• Transparent Reporting & Communication: Deliver clear, actionable status reports, dashboards, and metrics on validation progress, blockers, and model support readiness to team members and project stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field with 5–6 years of experience.

Scripting & Automation: Strong proficiency in scripting languages—primarily Python—and familiarity with Groovy or Bash.

Problem-Solving & Log Parsing: Strong ability to build regex, parse complex logs, and develop automated scripts to streamline triage and identify execution failures.

CI/CD Systems: Hands-on experience building or maintaining CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins or similar tools.

Development Environment: Strong experience with Linux, Git, and Python testing frameworks (e.g., PyTest).

Model Exploration & Curiosity: Passion for playing with, testing, and adopting new AI models as they are released, with a proven track record of using them in previous work assignments, personal hobby projects, or open-source contributions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Inference Toolkits: Familiarity with OpenVINO™, Optimum-Intel, or other deep learning inference runtimes (e.g., ONNX Runtime, TensorRT, llama.cpp).
• Performance & Accuracy Profiling: Experience using benchmarking tools or accuracy check frameworks.
• Model Quantization: Basic understanding of model quantization/compression concepts and evaluating native vs. quantized models.

What We Offer

At Intel, employees share in successes, enjoy comprehensive rewards and are inspired by an innovative & inclusive workplace.

Safe & Flexible Working Environment: We guarantee you will be working in a safe environment; either at your own home or in our premises if needed, the security and wellbeing of you and your family stands as our utmost responsibility.

Professional Development: You will have constant opportunities to develop your professional career through technical and soft skills training, taking part in innovation projects or rotational programs.

Flexible Working Hours: Flexible working hours are important to us.

Benefits:

• Stock Program
• Annual and Quarterly Bonuses
• Employee Pension Plan
• Medical Plan and life insurance for you and your Family
• Peer to peer recognition
• Ticket restaurant Card
• Multisport Card / Holiday card
• Groups of enthusiasts
• Exclusive employee discounts
• (online) events and many more

Employment Details

Job Type: Experienced Hire

Shift: Shift 1 (Poland)

Primary Location: Poland, Gdansk

Work Model: This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site.

Salary: Annual Salary Range: 215 740,00 zł - 388 330,00 zł

The compensation range displayed in this posting reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation for this position. Within this range, individual pay is determined by job related skills, experience, and relevant education, training. As part of our total compensation approach, the final offer may include additional pay components and benefits. Your recruiting team will share the confirmed base salary along with any applicable total compensation elements upon employment offer delivery.

Equal Opportunity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.