Senior Engineer, Compiler

San Jose, California, United States. Posted 5 months ago

The role

You will adapt torch.compile to the backend and build or extend kernel DSLs for hardware. You will also design placement and scheduling passes and implement parallelism-aware lowering.

What you will do

Adapting torch.compile to our backend
Building or extending kernel DSLs for our hardware
Designing placement and scheduling passes
Implementing parallelism-aware lowering
Fusion, tiling, and memory planning
Upstream contributions to PyTorch, Triton, Helion, and adjacent projects

Required qualifications

Bachelor’s with 5+ years industry experience, or Master’s with 3+ years, or PhD's with 0+ years
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

Nice to have

Open-source contributions to PyTorch, Triton, Helion, LLVM/MLIR, or similar projects

Benefits

Incentive opportunities
Medical/Dental/Vision
401k
Charitable giving match
4+ weeks of paid time off a year, plus holidays and sick leave
Stipend for fertility care or adoption
Caregiver support
Medical travel support
On-demand apps and free confidential therapy sessions
Onsite Café and gym
Virtual classes

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About the company

Samsung Semiconductor is a global leader whose technology solutions power tools including smartphones, electric vehicles, hyperscale data centers, and IoT devices.