Early Career Compiler Engineer - LLVM

Cerebras Systems • Sunnyvale, CA

17d

About The Position

We are seeking a new college graduate or early career Compiler Engineer to help design and implement new features in our low-level compiler toolchain i ncluding the compiler mid-end, backend, assembler, and linker targeting individual cores in this unique architecture. You'll work primarily within the LLVM infrastructure , developing code generation and optimization strategies for both existing and future architectures. This role focuses on generating highly optimized single-core code , foundational to scaling performance across our massively parallel system.

Requirements

• Bachelor's, Master's, PhD, or foreign equivalents in computer science, engineering, or related field
• Strong conceptual or hands-on experience with LLVM , particularly in backend code generation.
• One or more years of related work experience on compilers/toolchain development or systems programming
• Strong proficiency in C++ , especially modern C++ practices.
• Understanding of computer architecture, instruction sets, and memory models.
• Familiarity with linkers, assemblers, and binary formats.

Nice To Haves

• Exposure to AI/ML workloads and compilers (MLIR, XLA, TVM, etc.).
• Understanding of multi-dimensional data representations and vectorized operations.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement low-level compiler components (compiler backend, assembler, linker) targeting single cores.
• Automate generation of new LLVM targets using high-level architecture description
• Identify and develop novel LLVM mid-end and backend passes that leverage architectural features and optimize code generation for performance, including memory usage, instruction scheduling, and register allocation.
• Analyze performance bottlenecks and iterate on codegen strategies for complex workloads.
• Work closely with hardware architects, kernel developers, and high-level language designers to ensure end-to-end performance.
• Participate in technical reviews, design discussions, and collaborative debugging.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level