Compiler Engineer
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Role Description
This role involves extending compiler frontends, IR passes, and backends to unlock new language features and improve performance across architectures. You’ll deep-dive into code generation, vectorization, and link-time optimizations, ensuring that complex systems run efficiently and reliably.
Qualifications
- Strong background in computer science, systems programming, or compiler engineering
- Proficient in C and C++, with hands-on experience in compiler development
- Skilled in frameworks like LLVM/Clang, GCC, and MLIR
- Understanding of IR transformations, codegen, vectorization, and LTO
- Comfortable with build systems (Make, CMake) and debugging tools (ASAN/UBSAN, GDB, Valgrind)
- Care deeply about performance, correctness, and reliability at the systems level
- Curious about how compiler technology accelerates AI, scientific computing, and large-scale applications
Requirements
- Design and implement new compiler features and optimizations across frontends, IR, and backends
- Optimize code generation, vectorization, and link-time execution across architectures
- Debug and validate compiler pipelines using ASAN/UBSAN, GDB, and Valgrind
- Collaborate with researchers and engineers to adapt compilers for AI and high-performance workloads
- Maintain build systems and workflows with Make/CMake
- Ensure that compiler optimizations balance performance, correctness, and maintainability
Benefits
- Classified as an hourly contractor to Mercor
- Paid weekly via Stripe Connect, based on hours logged
- Part-time (20–30 hrs/week) with flexible hours—work from anywhere, on your schedule
- Weekly Bonus of $500–$1000 USD per 5 tasks
- Remote and flexible working style