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As a Staff Engineer on the Machine Learning Engineering team, you will drive the development of the LLVM-Ripple compiler toolchain and its supporting ecosystem to enable highly-parallel application development on Snapdragon platforms. You will design, develop, and optimize compiler components including front-end extensions, middle-end optimizations, and back-end code generation while improving parallel runtimes for heterogeneous workloads. Your daily work involves evolving the Ripple programming model, enhancing performance portability, and collaborating with architecture teams to expose SIMD/SIMT execution models and accelerator capabilities. You will utilize C, C++, and LLVM IR transformations to solve complex problems in compiler toolchain design and runtime systems. The role requires expertise in parallel programming models such as CUDA, OpenCL, and OpenMP to improve the developer experience for massively parallel applications targeting modern heterogeneous compute architectures.
LLVM
Clang
MLIR
C++
Compiler Internals
IR Design
Code Generation
open‑source development
CUDA
GPU Architecture
Parallel Programming
Deep Learning Frameworks
Technical Writing