Senior Compiler Engineer – Rust GPU

About the role

NVIDIA is seeking a Senior Compiler Engineer to join our team. This role involves developing Rust-to-GPU compiler pipelines, supporting complex ahead-of-time, just-in-time, and link time optimization workflows, defining safe parallel abstractions, and exposing next-gen hardware features in Rust.

Responsibilities

• Develop Rust-to-GPU Compiler Pipelines: Design, implement, and maintain custom compiler backends and Rust-native intermediate representation (IR) frameworks to compile standard Rust directly to high-performance CUDA PTX and machine code.
• Build compiler IRs and Optimizers: Work with modern compiler architectures to lower Rust AST and MIR into IRs including MLIR, PTX, and LLVM, including GPU-specific optimizations.
• Support Complex Ahead-of-Time, Just-in-Time, and Link Time Optimization Workflows: Build state-of-the-art tooling to support users targeting a broad family of NVIDIA GPUs, host platforms, and feature sets.
• Define Safe Parallel Abstractions: Architect innovative compiler-enforced safety models that extend Rust's ownership, borrowing, and lifetime disciplines across the GPU launch boundary—preventing data races and enforcing memory safety during asynchronous GPU execution.
• Expose Next-Gen Hardware Features: Implement type-safe, ergonomic device-side abstractions in Rust for low-level GPU hardware primitives, including shared memory, barriers, scoped atomics, Tensor Memory Accelerator (TMA), and warp/cluster-level operations.
• Build the Future: Supporting today’s accelerated computing applications is not sufficient. We have to build composable building blocks for others around us to build the applications of tomorrow.

Requirements

• Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of relevant work or research experience in compiler development, language design, or GPU code generation.
• Deep expertise in the Rust programming language, including a strong grasp of compiler internals (rustc), Rust MIR, procedural macros, and Rust's borrow-checker/lifetime model.
• Hands-on experience with compiler infrastructures, intermediate representations (IRs), and code generation (such as LLVM IR, MLIR, or custom IR systems).
• Solid understanding of parallel programming models, GPU architectures, and CUDA programming.
• Strong software design skills, including debugging, profiling, and benchmarking compilers and GPU kernels.
• Ability to orchestrate agents for product requirement design, architecture, code development, testing, code review, and issue triage.
• Ability to work independently, define project goals and scope, and drive complex compiler-engineering efforts from research to production.

Qualifications

• A track record of contributing to the Rust compiler (rustc), Cargo tooling, or open-source Rust-to-GPU projects.
• Experience building custom compiler front-ends, AST translators, or JIT engines.
• Familiarity with MLIR or other extensible compiler frameworks.
• Deep proficiency in low-level GPU programming, including the use of modern hardware features (e.g., Tensor Cores, warp-level shuffles, or asynchronous transfer pipelines).
• Experience designing Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) or tile-based programming abstractions for tensor processing.

Benefits

Competitive salaries and a generous benefits package are offered. NVIDIA is widely considered to be one of the technology world’s most desirable employers. We have some of the most forward-thinking and hardworking people in the world working for us, and due to unprecedented growth, our exclusive engineering teams are rapidly growing.

Pay

Base salary range: $152,000 - $241,500 USD.

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Application Instructions

Applications for this job will be accepted at least until July 25, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy.