Software engineer
Pubblicato il 09-10-2026 - Red Hat in Italia
The Red Hat Performance and Scale Engineering team is looking for an AI Performance Engineer to join us in the PSAP - Performance and Scale for AI Platforms team.
As recent advances in AI technologies have taken the world by storm, Red Hat has jointly engineered an enterprise grade platform - Open Shift AI, based on open source AI technologies, to help enterprises leverage the full potential of these transformative AI technologies. As part of this team, you will be responsible for the performance and scalability assessments of Open Shift AI platform - that includes but not limited to notebooks as a service, data science pipelines, model serving stack, feature store, edge AI, and a distributed model training stack.
Our goal is to make Open Shift AI the platform of choice for Red Hat's enterprise customers for leveraging AI technologies. You will help us achieve those goals through targeted improvements in the performance and scalability of the Open Shift AI platform. You will be required to formulate and execute performance test plans. You will investigate cloud infrastructure,
on-prem hardware, RHEL, Open Shift, and Open Shift AI performance tuning knobs.
In addition, you will triage and potentially fix performance issues, create new benchmarking tests and automation tools as needed, and socialize performance results on a regular basis. This role needs an engineer that thinks creatively, adapts to rapid change, and has the willingness to learn and apply new technologies. You will be joining a vibrant open source culture, and helping promote performance and innovation in this Red Hat engineering team.
The border mission of the Performance and Scale team is to establish performance and scale leadership of the Red Hat product and cloud services portfolio. The scope includes component level, system and solution analysis and targeted enhancements. The team collaborates with engineering, product management, product marketing and customer support as well as hardware and so