Senior Code Generator Compiler Engineer

Job Title

Senior Code Generator Compiler Engineer

Role Summary

Join NVIDIA's GPU Software Compiler backend team to design and implement high-performance code generation and register allocation for modern SIMT GPU architectures. The team delivers compiler backends for Graphics and Compute stacks and collaborates with hardware and application teams.

Experience Level

Senior — typically expects 3+ years of compiler code-generation experience.

Responsibilities

You will contribute to the compiler backend and related tooling to produce robust, high-performance GPU machine code.

• Understand, modify, and improve an NVIDIA proprietary GPU compiler backend written in C++.
• Design and implement register allocation passes and other code-generation optimizations.
• Develop and maintain compiler infrastructure for instruction scheduling, software pipelining, and related optimizations.
• Work with global compiler, hardware, and application teams to identify, debug, and resolve performance and correctness issues.
• Write maintainable, well-tested code and documentation; participate in code reviews.
• Profile and tune generated code for performance on NVIDIA GPU architectures.

Requirements

Required technical skills and experience. Education items are summarized separately under Education Requirements.

• 3+ years of compiler code generation experience; experience with LLVM preferred.
• Proficient, hands-on C++ programming skills.
• Strong software-engineering practices focused on robustness and maintainability.
• Good communication, documentation skills, and self-motivation.

Nice-to-have:

• Significant academic compiler project or thesis work.
• Experience with LLVM code generation: instruction scheduling, software pipelining, register allocation, GlobalISel, TableGen, LLVM IR, Machine IR (MIR).
• Experience with compiler unit testing and IR visualization.

Education Requirements

B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. (or equivalent experience). M.S./Ph.D. is highly desired. (Source text lists degrees or equivalent experience; no specific fields or certifications were specified.)

About the Company

Company: NVIDIA

Headquarters: Santa Clara, California, USA

NVIDIA is a global leader in accelerated computing, renowned for its innovative solutions in AI and digital twins that transform diverse industries. The company specializes in networking technologies, providing end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet solutions for servers and storage that optimize performance and scalability. NVIDIA serves sectors such as high-performance computing, enterprise data centers, and cloud computing, constantly reinventing its products and services to stay ahead in the market.