Senior Rust GPU Compiler Engineer — Equity

Nvidia Corporation in; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

NVIDIA is hiring a Senior Compiler Engineer to advance GPU systems programming and Rust-native GPU development. You will design backends, IR frameworks, and JIT systems to enable memory-safe, high-performance GPU kernels written in Rust.

Lead the design of safe parallel abstractions, GPU features, and compiler infrastructure across host and device execution, with emphasis on performance and correctness in large-scale systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of compiler development, language design, or GPU code generation.
• Deep expertise in Rust, including rustc, MIR, macros, and borrow-checker/lifetime model.
• Hands-on experience with compiler infrastructures and code generation (LLVM IR / MLIR).
• Solid understanding of parallel programming models and CUDA architectures.
• Strong design, debugging, profiling, and benchmarking skills for compilers and GPU kernels.
• Ability to lead projects from research to production.

Responsibilities

• Develop Rust-to-GPU compiler pipelines and backends to target CUDA PTX and machine code.
• Build compiler IRs and optimizers, lowering Rust AST/MIR into IRs like MLIR, PTX, LLVM.
• Support AOT, JIT, and link-time optimization workflows for NVIDIA GPUs and host platforms.
• Define safe parallel abstractions across GPU launch boundaries to enforce memory safety.
• Expose device-side abstractions in Rust for low-level GPU hardware primitives.
• Contribute to long-term architectural building blocks for future NVIDIA products.

Skills

Rust programming

Compiler internals (rustc)

GPU code generation

MLIR / LLVM IR

CUDA programming

Parallel programming

Code optimization

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/Ph.D. in CS/CE or related

Tools

LLVM IR

MLIR

Rust MIR

Job description

NVIDIA is hiring a Senior Compiler Engineer to advance GPU systems programming and Rust-native GPU development. You will design backends, IR frameworks, and JIT systems to enable memory-safe, high-performance GPU kernels written in Rust.

Lead the design of safe parallel abstractions, GPU features, and compiler infrastructure across host and device execution, with emphasis on performance and correctness in large-scale systems.