Director, GPU Compiler Engineering

Samsung Semiconductor; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 222,000 - 365,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

401(k)

Free onsite lunch

Employee purchase program

Tuition assistance

Paid time off

Wellness incentives

Job summary

Samsung Austin Research and Development Center (SARC) and Advanced Computing Lab (ACL) are seeking a Director of GPU Compilers to lead a team delivering compiler software for Samsung GPUs, integrated with Samsung SOCs. You will drive annual backend updates to address new optimizations, hardware features, and front-end/back-end collaboration.

Responsibilities include technical leadership, back-end optimizations, performance and power improvements, and coordination with architecture and senior

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience with a relevant degree, or 13+ with a Master’s, or 11+ with a PhD.
• 10+ years leading software engineering teams delivering system-level software.
• In-depth understanding of compiler back-end technology and experience building or enhancing at least 2 different compilation systems.
• Strong experience with modern C++ and Python.
• Practical experience developing JIT compilers or compilers for shader languages.
• Knowledge of OpenGL/OpenGL-ES, OpenCL, SPIRV.
• Compiler development for mobile architectures is highly preferred.
• Knowledge of Android ecosystem is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership by researching compilers and related tech.
• Implement register allocation, instruction scheduling, graphics-specific optimizations, SIMD-related control flow, and code placement optimizations.
• Apply classic machine-independent optimizations on low-level IRs.
• Optimize applications to reduce execution time, memory usage, or power usage.
• Lead annual planning for next-generation hardware support, including effort estimation and cross-functional negotiation with architecture and engineering leads.
• Present team objectives, key results, and progress summaries to senior leadership.
• Coordinate with peer teams, architecture leads, and senior management to align priorities.
• Hold regular one-on-one and team meetings to review status and priorities.
• Document and submit team-generated IP for protection after major releases.
• Conduct annual performance reviews and mentor engineers.
• Recognize strong performance and support engineers’ professional development.

Skills

Leadership

Compiler back-end

C++

Python

JIT compilers

Shader languages

OpenGL/OpenGL-ES/OpenCL/SPIRV

Mobile GPU compiler

Android ecosystem

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering

Master’s degree

PhD

Job description

Samsung Austin Research and Development Center (SARC) and Advanced Computing Lab (ACL) are seeking a Director of GPU Compilers to lead a team delivering compiler software for Samsung GPUs, integrated with Samsung SOCs. You will drive annual backend updates to address new optimizations, hardware features, and front-end/back-end collaboration.

Responsibilities include technical leadership, back-end optimizations, performance and power improvements, and coordination with architecture and senior