{"id":215662,"date":"2026-08-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ic-resources.com\/jobs\/compiler-engineer-501871\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T02:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T01:08:12","slug":"compiler-engineer-501871","status":"publish","type":"jobs","link":"https:\/\/ic-resources.com\/en\/jobs\/compiler-engineer-501871\/","title":{"rendered":"Compiler Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\"><strong>Senior \/ Principal Compiler Engineer<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">&nbsp;Bristol preferred | Fully remote within the UK considered<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">&nbsp;Exceptional candidates elsewhere in Europe may also be considered<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">&nbsp;Photonic computing | C++ | MLIR | LLVM<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">I\u2019m supporting a well-funded UK deep-tech company developing a proprietary photonic computing platform for high-performance, privacy-preserving workloads.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">They\u2019re looking for a Senior or Principal Compiler Engineer to help build a new compiler stack targeting their novel hardware architecture. You\u2019ll work across compilers, machine-learning frameworks and hardware, translating high-level workloads into efficient code for a proprietary execution target.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\"><strong>What you\u2019ll be doing:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Designing and implementing core components of a greenfield compiler stack<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Developing intermediate representations, lowering pipelines and transformation passes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Building hardware-aware compiler optimisations<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Integrating with technologies such as Google HEIR, PyTorch and ONNX Runtime<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Translating high-level workloads into efficient code for a novel accelerator<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Working closely with hardware, simulation, cryptography and algorithms engineers<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Benchmarking, profiling and debugging generated workloads<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Influencing the technical direction and architecture of a growing software platform<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\"><strong>What they\u2019re looking for:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Strong professional experience with modern C++<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Hands-on compiler development experience at the IR, middle-end or back-end level<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Experience with MLIR, LLVM IR or another compiler\/framework intermediate representation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Knowledge of compiler passes, lowering, optimisation and code generation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Experience targeting a processor, accelerator or custom architecture<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">An interest in hardware-software co-design and building production-quality systems<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">MLIR experience would be ideal, but it isn\u2019t essential. Strong LLVM back-end or intermediate-representation engineers who are interested in learning MLIR are encouraged to apply.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Experience with GPU, NPU, DSP, FPGA or custom-silicon compilers would be particularly relevant. Previous cryptography or Fully Homomorphic Encryption experience is useful but not required.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">This is an opportunity to build a compiler around genuinely novel hardware and have significant influence over the software architecture at an early stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;font-size: 14px\">Please message Harry Hansford&nbsp; if you\u2019d like further information or a confidential discussion.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior \/ Principal Compiler Engineer &nbsp;Bristol preferred | Fully remote within the UK considered&nbsp;Exceptional candidates elsewhere in Europe may also be considered&nbsp;Photonic computing | C++ | MLIR | LLVM I\u2019m supporting a well-funded UK deep-tech company developing a proprietary photonic computing platform for high-performance, privacy-preserving workloads. 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