Senior Rust GPU Compiler Engineer - IR & PTX Innovator

Nvidia Corporation; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 152,000 - 241,500; Full time

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Job summary

NVIDIA in California is seeking a Senior Compiler Engineer to advance GPU systems programming, building Rust-to-GPU backends and intermediate representations to enable high-performance CUDA kernels.

You will design compiler pipelines, MLIR/IR frameworks, and PTX targets, and push safety models across GPU launch boundaries while enabling future hardware features. This role requires deep Rust expertise and proven production-scale compiler experience.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in Rust and compiler internals (rustc, MIR, borrow-checker)
• Experience with compiler infrastructures, IRs (MLIR/LLVM) and code generation
• Knowledge of GPU architectures and CUDA programming
• Proven ability to lead complex compiler-engineering projects from research to production
• Excellent debugging, profiling, and benchmarking skills

Responsibilities

• Develop Rust-to-GPU compiler pipelines and backends
• Lower Rust AST/MIR into IRs including MLIR, PTX, LLVM with GPU optimizations
• Support AOT, JIT, and link-time optimization workflows for NVIDIA GPUs
• Define safe parallel abstractions across GPU launch boundaries
• Implement type-safe device-side Rust abstractions for GPU primitives
• Contribute to building reusable compiler building blocks for future workloads

Skills

Rust programming

Compiler internals

GPU CUDA programming

IRs and code generation

Parallel programming

Education

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

Tools

LLVM

MLIR

Rustc

Job description

NVIDIA in California is seeking a Senior Compiler Engineer to advance GPU systems programming, building Rust-to-GPU backends and intermediate representations to enable high-performance CUDA kernels.

You will design compiler pipelines, MLIR/IR frameworks, and PTX targets, and push safety models across GPU launch boundaries while enabling future hardware features. This role requires deep Rust expertise and proven production-scale compiler experience.