Triton Compiler and Kernel Software Engineer - CA, San Jose, United States
Originally posted 29 September 2026 by the employer.
This role focuses on Triton compiler and kernel development for AMD GPUs.
About the role
This role is for a Senior Triton Compiler and Kernel Engineer focused on advancing Triton performance and capabilities on AMD GPUs. Triton is a critical layer in the AI software stack, connecting frameworks and workloads to GPU hardware, and is strategic to AMD’s AI roadmap.
What you'll do
- Develop and optimize Triton compiler support for AMD GPUs.
- Improve compiler lowering, optimization, scheduling, and code generation.
- Create high-performance kernels for attention, GEMM, MoE, and other AI workloads.
- Develop and optimize multi-GPU kernels and communication primitives.
- Analyze compute, memory, communication, occupancy, register usage, and generated code.
- Contribute designs and implementations to upstream Triton and LLVM/MLIR.
What you'll need
- Experience with GPU architecture and programming.
- Experience with compiler development and optimization.
- Experience with high-performance GPU kernels.
- Experience with multi-GPU communication and collective operations.
- Experience with distributed AI training and inference.
- Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Electrical Engineering.
Nice to have
- Experience with AMD GPU architecture and ROCm.
- Experience optimizing kernels with Triton, HIP, CUDA, or GPU assembly.
- Experience with Triton, LLVM, MLIR, or another optimizing compiler.
- Knowledge of GPU execution models, memory hierarchies, synchronization, and instruction pipelines.
- Experience with collective communication, distributed programming, and libraries such as RCCL or NCCL.
- Understanding of communication topologies, interconnects, synchronization, and communication–computation overlap.
- Familiarity with distributed training, inference, tensor parallelism, expert parallelism, or pipeline parallelism.
- Familiarity with AI primitives, reduced-precision formats, and performance profiling.
- Contributions to complex or open-source software projects.
This role has been open 11 days — well below the 59-day median for Systems Software Engineering roles.
Systems Software Engineering · Systems Software
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Open roles in category
683
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Median days open
59 d
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Median salary
$213k
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| Metric | AMD | All employers we track in this specialty (683 roles · 73 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 59 | 683 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 403 | 6035 · 146 employers |
| Median days open | 50 d | 59 d (−9 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $213k |
Who's hiring in this category
- Qualcomm · 169 open roles · median 74 d
- NVIDIA · 128 open roles · median 51 d
- AMD (this employer) · 59 open roles · median 50 d
- Mobileye · 29 open roles · median 73 d
- Broadcom · 22 open roles · median 45 d
- Arm Holdings · 20 open roles · median 107 d
How we counted: 683 open Systems Software Engineering (Systems Software) roles from 73 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 10 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.