Senior Compiler Architect: Remote & Verification‑Driven

Code Metal, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care plan with 100% premium

401k with 5% matching

Paid Time Off (uncapped vacation)

Flexible hybrid or remote work

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Code Metal in San Francisco is building a new generation of translation tools that turn Python algorithm code into correct, deployable C++ for embedded systems. The team combines compiler techniques with generative AI and formal verification, with analysis driving most of the work.

You’ll lead the architecture of the translation pipeline from parsing and semantic analysis through IR design to C++ code generation, ensuring Python semantics are preserved in a statically typed target.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development in C++ and/or Python, shipping to real users.
• Hands-on experience building a compiler, transpiler, interpreter or language runtime: the end-to-end pipeline, not just one pass.
• Deep understanding of parsing, AST and IR design, type systems, IR transformations and code generation.
• Experience with compiler infrastructure such as Clang/LLVM, MLIR, GCC or equivalent.
• Strong modern C++: templates, value semantics, undefined behaviour, and how source code maps to the machine.
• Solid delivery fundamentals: code review, testing, CI/CD and build systems.
• A track record of leading large technical projects in a team, and turning stakeholder needs into designs.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the translation pipeline IR, analysis passes and C++ code generation, keeping the core independent of any one source language.
• Build type inference and lowering for dynamic Python features: arbitrary-precision integers, exceptions, generators, containers, and calls to the standard library and third‑party libraries.
• Make semantic equivalence measurable, through differential testing against CPython, conformance suites and fuzzing.
• Integrate LLM‑assisted generation where analysis falls short, with structured outputs and checks that catch its mistakes.
• Collaborate with verification and domain specialists to bring static analysis and formal methods into the pipeline.
• Set engineering standards for the codebase: tests, CI/CD, reproducible builds and code review.

Skills

C++

Python

Compiler

Parsing

AST design

IR design

Type systems

Code generation

Leadership

Security clearance

Tools

LLVM

CI/CD

Job description

Code Metal in San Francisco is building a new generation of translation tools that turn Python algorithm code into correct, deployable C++ for embedded systems. The team combines compiler techniques with generative AI and formal verification, with analysis driving most of the work.

You’ll lead the architecture of the translation pipeline from parsing and semantic analysis through IR design to C++ code generation, ensuring Python semantics are preserved in a statically typed target.