What are the responsibilities and job description for the Compiler Engineer position at Ventana Micro Systems?
Ventana is building the highest-performance RISC-V CPUs on the planet—designed for data center, AI, and edge workloads, with real silicon, not slideware.
Our second-generation Veyron core (V2) is on track to ship early next year, featuring an aggressive wide-issue pipeline and built in 4nm. Development on Veyron V3 is ramping now, with even greater performance and deep AI platform integration. This is your opportunity to work alongside engineers who built iconic processors like the AMD K6 and the first 64-bit ARM server processor (X-Gene at AppliedMicro)—bringing decades of CPU innovation to a clean-slate, open-standards future. You can check us out here: Ventana Micro - YouTube
Locations: San Francisco Bay Area, Cupertino, or Fully Remote
Position: Compiler Engineer
Status: Full time with immediate start
Qualifications Required:
- 12 years of software development and debugging with C/C
- Strong background in compiler theory, algorithms, and optimization techniques
- Hands-on development and performance optimization experience with GCC and LLVM compilers, debuggers like GDB, libraries like glibc, binutils and maintenance/upstream contribution of these respective tool chains
- Hands-on experience analyzing, running, profiling, and performance optimization of benchmarks like Dhrystone, Coremark, LMBench, STREAM, SPECCPU2017, SPECjbb2015, EEMBC and more in a Linux environment
- Hands on experience running, profiling, analyzing system bottlenecks and performance optimization of cloud workloads like Memcached, NGINX, MySQL, Redis, Cassandra, HBase etc. and associated customer workloads and benchmarks in a Linux environment
- Linux application and kernel performance optimization - knowledge of perf, oprofile, flame graphs and getting visibility into performance bottlenecks
- Experience in competitive benchmarking of workloads across Intel, AMD and ARM64 platforms.
- Ability to work independently and across geographies with hardware, software, SQA and product management teams
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills and good English communications skills, both verbal and writing
- Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science or related engineering fields
Skills Desired:
- Good understanding of CPU architecture, ARM or X86. RISC-V architectural knowledge would be an added plus
- Experience in JIT compiler development
- Experience working in multi-core, multi-process/thread environment
- Knowledge of open-source Linux, git repository maintenance and source code management
BASE SALARY RANGE
$105,000 TO $260,000 per year
EEOE
Ventana is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and uphold an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law.
$105,000 TO $260,000 per year
EEOE
Ventana is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and uphold an inclusive environment where all people feel that they are equally respected and valued. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law.
COVID-19
Ventana encourages all employees to be fully vaccinated (and boosted, if eligible) against COVID-19. We do require Proof of vaccination (or proof of a negative PCR test) to work in the office or meet with customers/ business partners.
NOTICE: External Recruiters/ Staffing Agencies:
Ventana Micro instructs agencies not to engage with its employees to present candidates. Employees are not authorized to enter into any agreement regarding the placement of candidates. All unsolicited resumes received as gratuitous submissions. We reserve the right to directly contact any candidate speculatively submitted by a third party. Such contact will not constitute acceptance of any contractual arrangement between Ventana and the agency, and Ventana will not be liable for any fees should it choose to engage the candidate’s services. All external recruiters and staffing agencies are required to have a valid contract executed by Ventana’s CFO.
Ventana encourages all employees to be fully vaccinated (and boosted, if eligible) against COVID-19. We do require Proof of vaccination (or proof of a negative PCR test) to work in the office or meet with customers/ business partners.
NOTICE: External Recruiters/ Staffing Agencies:
Ventana Micro instructs agencies not to engage with its employees to present candidates. Employees are not authorized to enter into any agreement regarding the placement of candidates. All unsolicited resumes received as gratuitous submissions. We reserve the right to directly contact any candidate speculatively submitted by a third party. Such contact will not constitute acceptance of any contractual arrangement between Ventana and the agency, and Ventana will not be liable for any fees should it choose to engage the candidate’s services. All external recruiters and staffing agencies are required to have a valid contract executed by Ventana’s CFO.
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Salary : $105,000 - $260,000