HLS Compiler Engineer — Hardware Synthesis & AI Acceleration

Altera; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentorship

Career growth opportunities

Competitive salary

Supportive work environment

Job summary

Altera in Toronto, Ontario, Canada is seeking a software engineer to help build and optimize the HLS compiler infrastructure that translates high-level code into hardware descriptions for FPGA/ASIC targets. You will work on compiler passes, code transformations, and flows from C/C++ to HDLs, contributing to performance, resource efficiency, and AI workloads.

You will be mentored by experienced compiler and hardware engineers and participate in a collaborative, innovative environment with

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in CS/EE/CE or related field with 3+ years of experience in C/C++ programming.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the development and maintenance of HLS compiler infrastructure.
• Support the implementation of compiler passes and code transformations to optimize high-level code for hardware synthesis.
• Analyze and improve compilation flow from C/C++ to hardware description languages.
• Research in cutting edge compiler technology for AI computation workload
• Help integrate and test new features in HLS compilers, focusing on performance and resource optimization.
• Participate in debugging and validating compiler outputs.
• Document work and contribute to internal knowledge bases.

Skills

C/C++ programming

Compiler concepts

Digital logic design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field

Tools

MLIR

LLVM

Clang

Xilinx Vivado HLS

Intel HLS

Git

Job description

Altera in Toronto, Ontario, Canada is seeking a software engineer to help build and optimize the HLS compiler infrastructure that translates high-level code into hardware descriptions for FPGA/ASIC targets. You will work on compiler passes, code transformations, and flows from C/C++ to HDLs, contributing to performance, resource efficiency, and AI workloads.

You will be mentored by experienced compiler and hardware engineers and participate in a collaborative, innovative environment with