Compiler Engineer-MLIR - Mountain View, CA, United States
$240,000 - $275,000 USD yearly
Originally posted 2 June 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on MLIR dialect design and lowering passes for our AI accelerator.
About the role
Own MLIR dialect design and lowering passes for our AI accelerator. This involves defining the high-level tensor IR, async / streaming semantics, and sharded-tensor types that bridge ML frameworks to silicon.
What you'll do
- Own MLIR dialect design and lowering passes for our AI accelerator — defining the high-level tensor IR, async / streaming semantics, and sharded-tensor types that bridge ML frameworks to silicon
What you'll need
- Exceptional abilities in MLIR dialect design, lowering pass authoring, and rewrite patterns
- 5+ years compiler engineering experience, with hands-on MLIR contributions or equivalent IR-design experience
- Deep understanding of tensor compilation, distributed / sharded execution, and async / streaming dataflow models
- Strong C++ fluency and experience integrating with ML frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, ONNX, TensorFlow, or equivalent)
Nice to have
- LLVM backend experience, GPU compiler experience (Triton, IREE, XLA, or equivalent), or open-source MLIR / LLVM contributions
Skills: MLIR dialect design, lowering passes, AI accelerator, tensor IR, compiler engineering
This role has been open 34 days — well below the 50-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
973
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$235k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | DensityAI | All employers we track in this specialty (973 roles · 85 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 2 | 973 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 10 | 6145 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 34 d | 50 d (−16 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $235k |
Skills observed across this category: MLIR dialect design, lowering passes, AI accelerator, tensor IR, compiler engineering
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 289 open roles · median 44 d
- Qualcomm · 61 open roles · median 57 d
- AMD · 57 open roles · median 21 d
- Graphcore · 44 open roles · median 90 d
- Intel Corporation · 40 open roles · median 9 d
- Cerebras · 39 open roles · median 80 d
How we counted: 973 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 85 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 15 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.