Senior Compiler Engineer

Intel Corporation; Toronto; Híbrido; CAD 156.000 - 220.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Intel Corporation in Canada is seeking a Senior Compiler Engineer to design, develop, and optimize compiler technologies across CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators. You will contribute to LLVM-based C/C++, SYCL, and related toolchains, collaborating with global teams to improve performance and reliability.

You will mentor colleagues, drive new features, and analyze workloads to push forward high-performance computing, AI, and HPC workloads within a hybrid work model.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Informatics, or a related technical field.
• 6+ years of professional software development experience and advanced knowledge in C/C++.
• Strong background in object-oriented programming, algorithms, and data structures.
• Experience optimizing software for CPU performance and efficiency.
• Excellent analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.

Responsabilidades

• Designing, developing, testing, debugging, and maintaining advanced compiler technologies and software components.
• Driving the implementation of new compiler features and resolving complex software defects.
• Analyzing real-world applications, workloads, and benchmarks to identify optimization opportunities.
• Improving the performance and efficiency of compiler-generated code for Intel CPU architectures.
• Conducting functional, performance, scalability, and stress testing to ensure product quality and reliability.
• Partnering with hardware architects and platform teams to enable new processor capabilities.
• Collaborating across global engineering, validation, and performance teams to deliver high-quality products.
• Contributing to open-source compiler initiatives and industry standards.
• Providing technical leadership and mentorship within the engineering organization.

Conocimientos

C/C++

OO programming

Algorithms

Data structures

Analytical debugging

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Master's or PhD (preferred)

Herramientas

LLVM

Perf

OpenMP

Assemblers/Linkers

Descripción del empleo

The Compiler Engineering team in Data Center Group at Intel has an opportunity available for a Senior Compiler Engineer. At Intel, we are building the next generation of software technologies that unlock the potential of heterogeneous computing. Our compiler technologies help developers harness CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators through high-performance, portable software. You will contribute to an ecosystem that advances performance, scalability, reliability, and developer productivity for AI, HPC, and other demanding workloads, while supporting Intel's commitment to contributing to and collaborating with open-source communities. The Intel Compiler Engineering Team develops LLVM-based C, C++, SYCL, Triton, MLIR, Domain Specific Languages (DSLs), and Fortran compiler technologies for Intel processor platforms, including CPUs and GPUs. The team works across the compiler stack and in close collaboration with hardware architecture teams, covering language front ends, intermediate representations, optimization, code generation, debug information, runtimes, offload support, quality, and developer tooling. This work connects Intel hardware and compiler capabilities with AI frameworks and software ecosystems such as PyTorch, inference engines, and machine-learning models.

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, testing, debugging, and maintaining advanced compiler technologies and software components.
• Driving the implementation of new compiler features and resolving complex software defects.
• Analyzing real-world applications, workloads, and benchmarks to identify optimization opportunities.
• Improving the performance and efficiency of compiler-generated code for Intel CPU architectures.
• Conducting functional, performance, scalability, and stress testing to ensure product quality and reliability.
• Partnering with hardware architects and platform teams to enable new processor capabilities.
• Collaborating across global engineering, validation, and performance teams to deliver high-quality products.
• Contributing to open-source compiler initiatives and industry standards.
• Providing technical leadership and mentorship within the engineering organization.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Informatics, or a related technical field.
• 6+ years of professional software development experience and advanced knowledge in C/C++.
• Strong background in object-oriented programming, algorithms, and data structures.
• Experience optimizing software for CPU performance and efficiency.
• Excellent analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated ability to independently drive technical investigations and deliver solutions.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills within global engineering environments.
• Experience with vectorization technologies and parallel programming models such as OpenMP.
• Experience with compiler development using LLVM or similar compiler frameworks.
• Knowledge of assemblers, linkers, and low-level system software.
• Strong understanding of compiler optimizations, code generation, and CPU architecture.
• Experience analyzing and tuning software performance across complex workloads.
• Familiarity with performance profiling and analysis tools such as perf or equivalent solutions.

Job Type: Experienced Hire

Shift: Shift 1 (Canada)

Primary Location: Canada, Toronto

Additional Locations:

Posting Statement: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

Position of Trust: N/A

Annual Salary Range for jobs which could be performed in Canada CAD 155,888.00-220,069.00 Salary range dependent on a number of factors including location and experience.

Work Model for this Role This role will be eligible for our hybrid work model which allows employees to split their time between working on-site at their assigned Intel site and off-site.

Canada Accommodation: Intel is committed to a culture of accessibility. Intel provides accommodations to applicants and employees with disabilities. Find information and request accommodation here.