Compiler Tools Engineer - Austin, Texas, United States of America, United States
$116,900 - $175,300 USD yearly
Originally posted 24 August 2026 by the employer.
Develop LLVM compilation suite for Qualcomm’s Hexagon DSP.
About the role
This role involves enabling high-performance machine learning, signal processing, and multimedia workloads across devices on the Qualcomm Snapdragon platform. You will build software platforms for the Hexagon DSP.
What you'll do
- Develop LLVM- and MLIR-based compiler components for Qualcomm’s Hexagon DSP.
- Improve ML compiler lowering and optimization pipelines for efficient execution.
- Use profiling and benchmark data to drive performance and code size improvements.
- Debug correctness and code generation issues across MLIR, LLVM IR, assembly, and generated code.
- Analyze software requirements and determine feasibility of design within given constraints.
- Consult with architecture and hardware engineers to create software solutions for Qualcomm's SOCs.
What you'll need
- Hands-on experience with LLVM, MLIR, GCC, or another production compiler framework.
- Strong programming skills in modern C/C++ and experience with large software codebases.
- 5 years or more of compiler engineering experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
Nice to have
- Professional experience developing production-quality compiler infrastructure using LLVM and/or MLIR.
- Strong knowledge of compiler fundamentals, including intermediate representations, compiler analyses, optimization passes, code generation, and debugging.
- Experience analyzing compiler correctness, generated code quality, performance, or code size using benchmarks, tests, and debugging tools.
- Experience with machine learning compiler stacks, ML framework integration, graph-level optimizations, or lowering from frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or ONNX.
- Knowledge of instruction sets and computer architecture, including SIMD/vector architectures, pipeline behavior, hazards, cache hierarchy, memory organization, and accelerator constraints.
- Working knowledge of system software tools such as assemblers, linkers, debuggers, profilers, and performance-analysis tools.
- Master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
Skills: compiler framework, LLVM, MLIR, code generation, computer architecture
This role has been open 52 days — below the 61-day median for Systems Software Engineering roles.
Systems Software Engineering · Systems Software
|
Open roles in category
689
|
Median days open
61 d
|
Median salary
$217k
|
See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Qualcomm | All employers we track in this specialty (689 roles · 72 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 172 | 689 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 715 | 6127 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 78 d | 61 d (+17 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $217k |
Skills observed across this category: compiler framework, LLVM, MLIR, code generation, computer architecture
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm (this employer) · 166 open roles · median 78 d
- NVIDIA · 137 open roles · median 47 d
- AMD · 64 open roles · median 50 d
- Mobileye · 28 open roles · median 74 d
- Broadcom · 21 open roles · median 51 d
- Arm Holdings · 20 open roles · median 112 d
How we counted: 689 open Systems Software Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 72 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.