Staff Engineer, Compiler
Samsung Semiconductor · San Jose, California, United States
Posted about 3 months ago
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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 81 days Samsung Semiconductor's roles stay open a median of 80 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Samsung Semiconductor's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Samsung Semiconductor
- high 66 stale, 1 reposted of 69 open
- Hiring momentum
- 93 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-23
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About this role
As a Staff Engineer in the Compiler team at the AGI Computing Lab, you will focus on adapting and enhancing compiler technologies to optimize performance for AI/ML workloads. Your responsibilities will include designing kernel domain-specific languages (DSLs), implementing scheduling and placement strategies, and contributing to open-source projects. You will collaborate with both hardware and software engineers to tackle complex challenges in computational efficiency and memory management.
- benefits
- 4/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
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What you need
- Bachelor’s with 10+ years, or Master’s with 8+ years, or PhD's with 5+ years of industry experience.
- 3-5+ years of industry experience in at least one of: Triton, Helion, MLIR, XLA, TVM, Inductor, IREE, CUTLASS, or a proprietary equivalent.
- Experience designing a kernel DSL or its IR from scratch, or making non-trivial language-level changes to an existing one.
- Experience with MLIR — writing dialects, passes, or backend integration.
- Experience building PyTorch backends for non-CUDA accelerators (XPU, ROCm, MPS, TPU, custom).
- Experience with kernel autotuning, performance modeling, or cost-based compilation.
Nice to have
- Open-source contributions to PyTorch, Triton, Helion, LLVM/MLIR, or similar projects.
What you get
- 4+ weeks of paid time off a year, plus holidays and sick leave.
- Medical/Dental/Vision/401k benefits.
- Charitable giving match and community involvement opportunities.
- Stipend for fertility care or adoption, caregiver support, and medical travel support.
- On-demand apps and free confidential therapy sessions for emotional wellness.
- Onsite Café and gym, plus virtual fitness classes.
Worth weighing
- Daily onsite presence required at the San Jose office.
- No specific salary details provided beyond the range.
- The role involves working with complex and potentially legacy systems in compiler technology.
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