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Senior Compiler Engineer – Rust GPU

NVIDIA· Engineer, Sys SW
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Hybrid (Santa Clara, CA), Hybrid (Austin, TX), Remote, Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$152k - $241.5k + equityfull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Senior Compiler Engineer to join NVIDIA focusing on Rust-based GPU tooling, including Rust-to-GPU compilation, IR frameworks, and JIT/partial-ET optimization across host-device boundaries for high-performance CUDA/PTX targets.

Responsibilities

  • Develop Rust-to-GPU Compiler Pipelines: Design, implement, and maintain custom compiler backends (such as rustc codegen backends and proc-macros) and Rust-native intermediate representation (IR) frameworks to compile standard Rust directly to high-performance CUDA PTX and machine code.
  • Build compiler IRs and Optimizers: Work with modern compiler architectures to lower Rust AST and MIR into IRs including MLIR, PTX, and LLVM, including GPU-specific optimizations.
  • Support complex ahead-of-time, just-in-time, and link time optimization workflows: Build state-of-the-art tooling to support users targeting a broad family of NVIDIA GPUs, host platforms, and feature sets.
  • Define Safe Parallel Abstractions: Architect innovative compiler-enforced safety models that extend Rust's ownership, borrowing, and lifetime disciplines across the GPU launch boundary—preventing data races and enforcing memory safety during asynchronous GPU execution.
  • Expose Next-Gen Hardware Features: Implement type-safe, ergonomic device-side abstractions in Rust for low-level GPU hardware primitives, including shared memory, barriers, scoped atomics, Tensor Memory Accelerator (TMA), and warp/cluster-level operations.
  • Build the future: Supporting today’s accelerated computing applications is not sufficient. We have to build composable building blocks for others around us to build the applications of tomorrow.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of relevant work or research experience in compiler development, language design, or GPU code generation.
  • Deep expertise in the Rust programming language, including a strong grasp of compiler internals (rustc), Rust MIR, procedural macros, and Rust's borrow-checker/lifetime model.
  • Hands-on experience with compiler infrastructures, intermediate representations (IRs), and code generation (such as LLVM IR, MLIR, or custom IR systems).
  • Solid understanding of parallel programming models, GPU architectures, and CUDA programming.
  • Strong software design skills, including debugging, profiling, and benchmarking compilers and GPU kernels.
  • Ability to orchestrate agents for product requirement design, architecture, code development, testing, code review, and issue triage.
  • Ability to work independently, define project goals and scope, and drive complex compiler-engineering efforts from research to production.

Skills

Required:RustCompiler infrastructuresCUDA / GPU programming

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Benefits package
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