Compiler Toolchain Engineer for Mobile & ML Acceleration

QUALCOMM, Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. seeks a Compiler Toolchain Software Engineer to advance state-of-the-art toolchains for mobile and compute platforms.

You will work on LLVM/GCC/MLIR-based pipelines, optimize compilers for energy efficiency, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve gaming, image processing, VR/AR, and ML workloads. The role offers design autonomy under supervision, with opportunities to influence compiler tooling, debuggers, profilers, linkers, and simulators, helping

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Applies knowledge of software development and processor architecture to enhance toolchains for mobile and compute products.
• Incorporates features to programming tools to assist software developers implement, debug, and optimize code on programmable cores.
• Assists in designing and developing industry standard tools (e.g., debuggers, linkers, profilers, converters, optimizers).
• Helps build bit-exact functional or timing-accurate simulators for off-target execution of software.
• Supports synthesizing and running benchmarks for different applications.
• Contributes to the design of the compiler toolchain (e.g., LLVM, GCC, MLIR, Halide, TVM) to ensure compilation on Qualcomm hardware.

Skills

Compiler experience

Processor architecture

Debugging & optimization

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE/related

Master's degree in CS/EE/related

Tools

LLVM

GCC

MLIR

Halide/TVM

Profilers/Debuggers/Converters

Job description

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. seeks a Compiler Toolchain Software Engineer to advance state-of-the-art toolchains for mobile and compute platforms.

You will work on LLVM/GCC/MLIR-based pipelines, optimize compilers for energy efficiency, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve gaming, image processing, VR/AR, and ML workloads. The role offers design autonomy under supervision, with opportunities to influence compiler tooling, debuggers, profilers, linkers, and simulators, helping