Senior Rust Systems Engineer for GPU & Compiler

AMD; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

AMD is building next-generation systems software for GPUs, focusing on Rust as a core technical direction. The role spans compilers, runtimes, low-level GPU software, firmware, and developer tooling to ensure safe, high-performance execution on AMD GPUs.

You will influence Rust usage across the stack, shaping production deployment, tooling support, verification, and architecture across current and future AMD platforms.

Qualifications

• Strong production Rust experience with safe abstractions over unsafe operations.
• Experience with low-level or constrained Rust (no_std, embedded) where applicable.
• Solid C/C++ systems programming skills across mixed-language codebases.
• Experience with rustc internals, MIR, custom codegen backends, or compiler plugins.
• Familiarity with LLVM/MLIR and GPU backend basics (AMDGPU).

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of production-quality Rust components for low-level and performance-sensitive GPU systems.
• Help make Rust a first-class engineering language across the GPU software stack.
• Design and implement compiler pipelines involving rustc, MIR, MLIR, LLVM IR, and AMDGPU code generation.
• Develop analyses, transformations, and lowering passes for GPU execution models and memory spaces.
• Define interfaces across compiler, host runtime, device code, firmware, and hardware boundaries.
• Work on ABI definitions, calling conventions, and code-object metadata.
• Provide or improve bare-metal Rust components with bounded behavior and predictable hardware effects.
• Apply testing, fuzzing, and formal methods to prevent regressions.

Skills

Rust

Rustc internals

C/C++ systems programming

LLVM/MLIR

Compiler design

GPU/AMD GPU knowledge

Formal methods / program analysis

Hardware-software co-design

Code generation

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

LLVM

MLIR

GCC

Rust toolchain

Job description

AMD is building next-generation systems software for GPUs, focusing on Rust as a core technical direction. The role spans compilers, runtimes, low-level GPU software, firmware, and developer tooling to ensure safe, high-performance execution on AMD GPUs.

You will influence Rust usage across the stack, shaping production deployment, tooling support, verification, and architecture across current and future AMD platforms.