Senior Compiler Engineer - MLIR for AI Silicon in Austin

Ericsson; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Ericsson in Austin, Texas is seeking a Staff or Senior Compiler Engineer to design and implement MLIR-based compiler passes for custom AI silicon used in telecommunications baseband processing. You will work across the compiler stack with hardware architects, runtime developers, and AI researchers to optimize for real hardware constraints.

Strong C++ and MLIR/LLVM experience are required, with a track record of delivering production-quality compiler passes end-to-end.

Qualifications

• Strong C++ development experience.
• Hands-on experience with MLIR, LLVM, or another production compiler framework.
• Experience implementing compiler passes or transformations at production quality.
• Understanding of intermediate representations and compiler pipelines.
• Ability to work across abstraction layers, from ML operator semantics to hardware constraints.
• Track record of owning technical work end-to-end, from design through delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement MLIR transformation passes, dialect conversions, and lowering pipelines.
• Work on tiling, scheduling, vectorization, and memory-planning problems specific to the target hardware.
• Debug numerical correctness issues across compiler transformations.
• Develop and maintain compiler testing and validation infrastructure.
• Contribute to hardware-software co-design discussions as the compiler matures.
• Profile, analyze, and optimize compiled workloads on silicon.
• Own the design and implementation of significant compiler subsystems.

Skills

C++ development

MLIR/LLVM

Production compiler experience

Compiler passes

IR and pipelines

End-to-end ownership

Model lowering (StableHLO/XLA/ONNX)

Tools

MLIR/LLVM

Job description

Ericsson in Austin, Texas is seeking a Staff or Senior Compiler Engineer to design and implement MLIR-based compiler passes for custom AI silicon used in telecommunications baseband processing. You will work across the compiler stack with hardware architects, runtime developers, and AI researchers to optimize for real hardware constraints.

Strong C++ and MLIR/LLVM experience are required, with a track record of delivering production-quality compiler passes end-to-end.