🏢 Summary: Senior compiler engineering role focused on building AI/ML compiler infrastructure for next-generation hardware accelerators, including PyTorch backend integration, kernel DSL development, distributed memory scheduling, and performance optimization. The position involves working on MLIR, Triton-style DSLs, parallelism-aware lowering, and upstream open-source contributions for scalable AGI computing platforms. Daily onsite presence in San Jose is required.
🗂️ Requirements: Bachelor's degree with 10+ years of industry experience, or Master's with 8+ years, or PhD with 5+ years, 3-5+ years of experience with Triton, Helion, MLIR, XLA, TVM, Inductor, IREE, CUTLASS, or equivalent, Experience designing kernel DSLs or intermediate representations, Experience with MLIR dialects, passes, or backend integration, Experience building PyTorch backends for non-CUDA accelerators, Experience with kernel autotuning, performance modeling, or cost-based compilation, Background in HPC, distributed systems, or NUMA-aware programming, Ability to contribute to open-source compiler projects
📃 Skills: PyTorch, Triton, Helion, MLIR, XLA, TVM, Inductor, IREE, CUTLASS, LLVM, CUDA, ROCm, MPS, TPU, DSL, IR, HPC, NUMA
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The AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) Computing Lab is dedicated to solving the complex system-level challenges posed by the growing demands of future AI/ML workloads. Our team is committed to designing and developing scalable platforms that can effectively handle the computational and memory requirements of these workloads while minimizing energy consumption and maximizing performance. To achieve this goal, we collaborate closely with both hardware and software engineers to identify and address the unique challenges posed by AI/ML workloads and to explore new computing abstractions that can provide a better balance between the hardware and software components of our systems. Additionally, we continuously conduct research and development in emerging technologies and trends across memory, computing, interconnect, and AI/ML, ensuring that our platforms are always equipped to handle the most demanding workloads of the future. By working together as a dedicated and passionate team, we aim to revolutionize the way AI/ML applications are deployed and executed, ultimately contributing to the advancement of AGI in an affordable and sustainable manner. Join us in our passion to shape the future of computing!
Location: Daily onsite presence at our San Jose, CA office / U.S. headquarters in alignment with our Flexible Work policy.
What You'll Do
- Adapting torch.compile to our backend: lowering Inductor's IR to our hardware, defining what gets fused, what gets specialized, and where the compiler should yield to hand-written kernels.
- Building or extending kernel DSLs for our hardware: taking a tile-based programming model (Triton-style), a higher-level expression (Helion-style), or a custom DSL we design, and lowering it to our ISA, our memory hierarchy, and our collective primitives. Where existing DSLs' GPU assumptions break, deciding what to change in the frontend, the IR, or the backend.
- Designing placement and scheduling passes: given a graph and our distributed memory model, deciding where tensors live, when to migrate them, and how to overlap compute with data movement. This is the layer where our hardware's differentiator shows up most directly.
- Implementing parallelism-aware lowering: making tensor, pipeline, expert, and sequence parallelism first-class in the compiler IR rather than bolted on at the framework layer.
- Fusion, tiling, and memory planning: the classical compiler problems, reframed for a non-uniform memory hierarchy where the right tile size and the right placement are coupled decisions.
- Upstream contributions: where we use open-source DSLs, we want our work to land upstream rather than live in a private fork. You'll engage with upstream review processes for PyTorch, Triton, Helion, and adjacent projects.
What You Bring
- Bachelor's with 10+ years, or Master's with 8+ years, or PhD's with 5+ years of industry experience.
- 3-5+ years of industry experience in at least one of: Triton, Helion, MLIR, XLA, TVM, Inductor, IREE, CUTLASS, or a proprietary equivalent.
- Experience designing a kernel DSL or its IR from scratch, or making non-trivial language-level changes to an existing one.
- Experience with MLIR — writing dialects, passes, or backend integration.
- Experience building PyTorch backends for non-CUDA accelerators (XPU, ROCm, MPS, TPU, custom).
- Experience with kernel autotuning, performance modeling, or cost-based compilation.
- Background in HPC, distributed systems, or NUMA-aware programming.
- Open-source contributions to PyTorch, Triton, Helion, LLVM/MLIR, or similar projects is a big plus.
What We Offer
The pay range below is for all roles at this level across all US locations and functions. Pay within this range varies by work location and may also depend on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. We also offer incentive opportunities that reward employees based on individual and company performance. This is in addition to our diverse package of benefits centered around the wellbeing of our employees and their loved ones.
- Charitable giving match and community involvement opportunities.
- 4+ weeks of paid time off plus holidays and sick leave.
- Fertility care or adoption stipend, medical travel support, and virtual vet care.
- On-demand wellness apps and free confidential therapy sessions.
- Onsite café and gym, plus virtual fitness classes.
- Flexible work environment.
- Base pay range: $163,000—$253,000 USD.
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