Senior Rust Systems Engineer – GPU Compiler/Toolchain

Advanced Micro Devices; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Job summary

Advanced Micro Devices is building next-generation systems software for AMD GPUs with a focus on Rust as a core technical direction. You will influence compiler, runtimes, firmware, and tooling across the GPU stack in a highly collaborative, production environment.

The role involves deep Rust systems programming, MLIR/LLVM-based pipelines, and hand-in-hand work with architecture and validation teams to ensure safe, high-performance GPU software on AMD platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience with Rust systems programming and ownership concepts.
• Strong understanding of compiler correctness and memory safety.
• Ability to read low-level assembly, ISA encodings, and compiler output.
• Experience with cross-language toolchains and interop (Rust/C/C++).
• Familiarity with GPU architectures and AMDGPU backend concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of production-quality Rust components for low-level GPU systems.
• Help make Rust a first-class engineering language across the GPU software stack, including toolchain integration and diagnostics.
• Design and implement compiler pipelines involving rustc, MIR, MLIR dialects, LLVM IR and AMDGPU code generation.
• Build analyses, transformations, and lowering for GPU execution models and memory spaces.
• Define interfaces across compiler, host runtime, device code, firmware, and hardware boundaries.
• Work on ABI definition, argument layout, linker behavior, and code-object metadata.
• Develop bare-metal and no_std components where state and predictability are required.
• Apply testing, fuzzing, and formal methods to ensure correctness across platforms.

Skills

Rust

Compiler

GPU

LLVM

MLIR

rustc internals

Code generation

GPU ISA

Concurrency

Memory safety

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Master's or PhD (preferred)

Tools

LLVM

MLIR

GCC

rustc

GPU tooling

ELF

Job description

Advanced Micro Devices is building next-generation systems software for AMD GPUs with a focus on Rust as a core technical direction. You will influence compiler, runtimes, firmware, and tooling across the GPU stack in a highly collaborative, production environment.

The role involves deep Rust systems programming, MLIR/LLVM-based pipelines, and hand-in-hand work with architecture and validation teams to ensure safe, high-performance GPU software on AMD platforms.