IT & Software

Compiler Engineer

Intellectual Capital Resources

Bristol · Bristol · United Kingdom

Overview

As a Senior/Principal Compiler Engineer you will help design and implement a greenfield compiler stack for a novel photonic accelerator. You will bridge software and hardware by building representations, lowering and optimization passes, and ensuring production-quality code. You’ll integrate with ML frameworks and cryptography tools, shaping how high-level workloads map to our proprietary target. This role offers technical leadership and influence over the software architecture in a cutting-edge hardware platform. You will collaborate across hardware, simulation, cryptography and algorithms teams to deliver performant, privacy-preserving workloads.

Responsibilities
  • Design and implement core components of a greenfield compiler stack
  • Develop intermediate representations, lowering pipelines and transformation passes
  • Build hardware-aware compiler optimisations
  • Integrate with technologies such as Google HEIR, PyTorch and ONNX Runtime
  • Translate high-level workloads into efficient code for a novel accelerator
  • Collaborate with hardware, simulation, cryptography and algorithms engineers
  • Benchmark, profiling and debugging of generated workloads
  • Influence the technical direction and architecture of the software platform
Key requirements
  • Strong professional experience with modern C++
  • Hands-on compiler development experience at the IR, middle-end or back-end level
  • Experience with MLIR, LLVM IR or another compiler/framework IR
  • Knowledge of compiler passes, lowering, optimisation and code generation
  • Experience targeting a processor, accelerator or custom architecture
  • Interest in hardware-software co-design and building production-quality systems
  • MLIR experience ideal but not essential; open to MLIR learners
  • Experience with GPU, NPU, DSP, FPGA or custom-silicon compilers
  • Cryptography or Fully Homomorphic Encryption experience useful but not required
  • collaboration across cross-functional teams
  • strong problem-solving and analytical thinking
  • effective communication and technical leadership
  • modern C++
  • compiler development (IR/middle-end/back-end)
  • MLIR / LLVM IR

Reference: WJ-747_30180314

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