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Software Engineering, IT
Dublin, Ireland
At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world.
This is a high-impact leadership role pairing directly with the Principal Architect to bridge the gap between GPU hardware acceleration and the Velox execution engine. You will define how Presto utilizes GPU resources for next-gen performance.
Responsibilities:
· Lead the architectural design for bridging GPU compute capabilities with the Velox C++ execution library.
· Collaborate with Presto/Velox architects to define interfaces for heterogeneous computing (CPU/GPU hybrid execution).
· Drive technical decision-making and roadmap planning for the GPU acceleration track.
· Mentor senior engineers and provide technical guidance on C++ internals and vectorization.
· 10+ years of software engineering experience, with deep expertise in C++.
· Strong background in Database Internals (Query Execution, Optimizers, Vectorized Processing, columnar processing etc ).
· Experience with GPU architecture (CUDA/ROCm) or integrating hardware accelerators into distributed systems.
· Ability to navigate complex large-scale C++ codebases (e.g., Velox, ClickHouse, Arrow).
· Ability to contribute to design documents and architectural discussions, and to work effectively across a distributed engineering team.
· Experience with Velox / Presto / Trino
· Knowledge of resource management (resource groups, scheduling)
· Experience with fault tolerance / retry mechanisms
· Contributions to open-source systems
In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.
Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
Are you ready to be an IBMer?
IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.
Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.
At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.
IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
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