Senior Rust-to-GPU Compiler Engineer - Equity

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Benefits package

Job summary

NVIDIA Corporation is hiring a Senior Compiler Engineer to advance Rust-to-GPU compilation, IR frameworks, and JIT/AOT workflows for CUDA and PTX. You will collaborate across teams to push the boundaries of safe, high-performance GPU kernels written in Rust.

Responsibilities include designing compiler backends, lowering Rust to GPU-focused IRs, and enabling modern hardware features while maintaining rigorous safety guarantees across device execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of relevant work or research experience in compiler development or GPU code generation.
• Deep expertise in the Rust programming language, including compiler internals (rustc), MIR, and borrow-checker models.
• Hands-on experience with compiler infrastructures and code generation (LLVM IR, MLIR or custom IR).
• Solid understanding of parallel programming models and CUDA programming.
• Strong software design skills including debugging, profiling, and benchmarking compilers and GPU kernels.

Responsibilities

• Develop Rust-to-GPU Compiler Pipelines: design and maintain custom rustc backends and Rust-native IR to compile Rust to CUDA PTX and machine code.
• Build compiler IRs and optimizers: lower Rust AST/MIR into IRs like MLIR, PTX, LLVM with GPU optimizations.
• Support AOT, JIT, and LTO workflows: build tooling for NVIDIA GPUs, host platforms, and feature sets.
• Define Safe Parallel Abstractions: extend ownership/lifetime models across GPU launch boundaries to enforce safety.
• Expose Next-Gen Hardware Features: implement type-safe device-side abstractions for GPU primitives (shared memory, barriers, etc.).
• Build the future: create building blocks for others to build tomorrow’s applications.

Skills

Rust proficiency

Rust MIR

Procedural macros

Concurrency

GPU programming

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s/Ph.D. in CS or related field

Tools

LLVM IR

MLIR

custom IR systems

rustc backends

Job description

NVIDIA Corporation is hiring a Senior Compiler Engineer to advance Rust-to-GPU compilation, IR frameworks, and JIT/AOT workflows for CUDA and PTX. You will collaborate across teams to push the boundaries of safe, high-performance GPU kernels written in Rust.

Responsibilities include designing compiler backends, lowering Rust to GPU-focused IRs, and enabling modern hardware features while maintaining rigorous safety guarantees across device execution.