Triton Compiler Engineer

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THE ROLE: 

Triton (https://github.com/triton-lang/triton) is a language and compiler for writing highly efficient custom Deep-Learning primitives. It's widely adopted in open AI software stack projects like PyTorch, vLLM, SGLang, and many others. AMD GPU is a supported backend in Triton and we are fully committed to it. If you are interested in making GPUs running fast via developing the Triton compiler and kernels, please come join us!

THE PERSON: 

An ideal candidate should be familiar with compilers, GPU architectures, parallel programming, and/or high-performance kernels. He/she should be comfortable at performing quantitative analysis of workload and drive improvements across different compiler layers. Most importantly, the candidate is willing to learn and work across boundaries.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• Develop and maintain Triton compiler's AMD backend
• Improve various compilation patterns and passes in Triton
• Research and author high performance matmul and attention kernels in Triton
• Profile kernel performance on AMD GPUs and improve bottlenecks
• Fix issues in AMDGPU backend in LLVM

 PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: 

• Familiarity or existing experience with Triton is a strong plus
• Familiarity with compiler projects like MLIR, LLVM, IREE
• Deep understanding of GPU architectures and programming models 
• Deep experience with writing high performance GPU kernels and GPU performance tuning 
• Experience debugging cross-stack issues and reducing user problems to actionable execution
  
• Open-source development ethos 

PREFERRED ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS: 

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent

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