Staff Compiler Engineer, Translation & Verification Lead

Code Metal, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401k matching

Paid time off

Hybrid or remote work

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Code Metal, Inc. seeks an experienced software engineer to lead the translation toolchain that turns Python into correct, deployable C++ for embedded systems. You will shape parsing, semantic analysis, and IR design while ensuring exact Python semantics in statically typed C++ outputs.

You will guide a team in building end-to-end compiler-like workflows, with emphasis on correctness, verification, and robust CI/CD practices. A TS clearance eligibility is preferred for certain projects.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development in C++ and/or Python.
• Hands-on experience building a compiler, transpiler, interpreter or language runtime: end-to-end pipeline.
• Deep understanding of parsing, AST and IR design, type systems, IR transformations and code generation.
• Experience with compiler infrastructure such as Clang/LLVM, MLIR, GCC or equivalent.
• Strong modern C++: templates, value semantics, undefined behaviour, and how source code maps to the machine.
• Solid delivery fundamentals: code review, testing, CI/CD and build systems.
• A track record of leading large technical projects in a team, and of turning stakeholder needs into designs.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain an active U.S. Top Secret security clearance

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve the translation pipeline’s IR, analysis passes and C++ code generation, keeping the core independent of any one source language.
• Build type inference and lowering for dynamic Python features: arbitrary-precision integers, exceptions, generators, containers, and calls to the standard library and third-party libraries.
• Make semantic equivalence measurable, through differential testing against CPython, conformance suites and fuzzing.
• Integrate LLM-assisted generation where analysis falls short, with structured outputs and checks that catch its mistakes.
• Collaborate with verification and domain specialists to bring static analysis and formal methods into the pipeline.
• Set engineering standards for the codebase: tests, CI/CD, reproducible builds and code review.

Skills

C++

Python

Compiler development

Parsing

IR design

Code generation

CI/CD

Leadership

Security clearance

Tools

Clang/LLVM

MLIR

GCC

Job description

Code Metal, Inc. seeks an experienced software engineer to lead the translation toolchain that turns Python into correct, deployable C++ for embedded systems. You will shape parsing, semantic analysis, and IR design while ensuring exact Python semantics in statically typed C++ outputs.

You will guide a team in building end-to-end compiler-like workflows, with emphasis on correctness, verification, and robust CI/CD practices. A TS clearance eligibility is preferred for certain projects.