Senior Rust GPU Compiler Engineer

NVIDIA Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 242,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior Compiler Engineer to advance Rust GPU tooling. You will design Rust-to-GPU compiler pipelines, build IRs like MLIR/LLVM, and push safe parallel abstractions across the GPU boundary.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in compiler development, deep Rust expertise, and hands-on experience with IRs and codegen for CUDA. We offer equity and a generous benefits package, with multiple onsite/remote work options.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in compiler development, language design, or GPU code generation.
• Deep expertise in Rust, rustc, MIR, and borrow-checker models.
• Experience with compiler IRs, code generation, and profiling.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement Rust-to-GPU compiler backends and IR frameworks.
• Lower Rust AST/MIR to MLIR, PTX, and LLVM for GPU targets.
• Develop tooling for AOT, JIT, and LT optimization workflows.

Skills

Rust language

Rust compiler internals

Procedural macros

Borrow-checker

MIR

CUDA programming

GPU architectures

LLVM IR

MLIR

Code generation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE

Master's or PhD in CS/CE

Tools

LLVM

MLIR

Custom IR

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation in Santa Clara, CA is seeking a Senior Compiler Engineer to advance Rust GPU tooling. You will design Rust-to-GPU compiler pipelines, build IRs like MLIR/LLVM, and push safe parallel abstractions across the GPU boundary.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in compiler development, deep Rust expertise, and hands-on experience with IRs and codegen for CUDA. We offer equity and a generous benefits package, with multiple onsite/remote work options.