Staff Rust Systems Engineer - GPU Compiler & Tooling

Socket.dev; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

AMD is seeking a deeply technical Rust/compiler generalist to shape production-grade Rust components for next-gen GPU systems. You will influence across the stack from rustc internals to target-specific code generation, while ensuring memory safety and correct hardware behavior.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, drive architecture decisions, and advance compiler, runtime, and firmware integration for AMD platforms.

Qualifications

• Strong production Rust experience including ownership and borrowing, lifetimes, traits and generics, error handling, concurrency, FFI, and safe abstractions over unsafe operations.
• Experience with low-level or no_std Rust, embedded systems, firmware, custom targets, allocators, volatile access, interrupt handling, or architecture-specific code.
• Strong C or C++ systems programming skills and ability to work across mixed-language codebases.
• Experience with rustc internals, MIR, custom codegen backends, procedural macros, compiler plugins, or other Rust toolchain infrastructure.
• Experience with LLVM, MLIR, GCC, or another production compiler framework.

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 GPU software stack including toolchain integration and diagnostics.
• Design and implement compiler pipelines involving rustc, MIR, MLIR, LLVM IR and AMDGPU code generation.
• Develop analyses, transformations, and lowering for GPU execution models and memory spaces.
• Define typed interfaces across compiler, host runtime, device code, firmware and hardware boundaries.
• Work on ABI definition, argument layout, linking, loader behavior and code-object metadata.
• Develop bare-metal and no_std Rust components for deterministic hardware effects.
• Use testing, fuzzing, and formal methods where they provide meaningful assurance.
• Partner with multiple teams to solve cross-layer problems and write design documents.

Skills

Rust programming

rustc internals

C/C++ systems programming

LLVM/MLIR

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

LLVM

MLIR

GPU backends

Job description

AMD is seeking a deeply technical Rust/compiler generalist to shape production-grade Rust components for next-gen GPU systems. You will influence across the stack from rustc internals to target-specific code generation, while ensuring memory safety and correct hardware behavior.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, drive architecture decisions, and advance compiler, runtime, and firmware integration for AMD platforms.