Compiler Software Engineer
qualcommAbout the role
Company:
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.Job Area:
Engineering Group, Engineering Group > Compiler Toolchain SoftwareGeneral Summary:
Interested in enabling millions of users on the Qualcomm Snapdragon platform and making their lives better? Come join our team! We develop the LLVM compilation suite for Qualcomm’s Hexagon DSP delivering rich performance for machine learning, wireless communication, audio, and image processing applications on the Android platform. We are looking for compiler engineers who will help us build these software platforms. In this role, you will collaborate with Qualcomm hardware and software engineers to enable efficient usage of Qualcomm’s silicon. You will work with a team of compiler engineers with rich experience and knowledge. We work on the entire compilation stack including programming languages and intermediate representations, code generation, improving performance, and programmer usability.
Summary
- Research, design, develop, and enhance different components of the compiler
- Analyze performance, code size and other metrics to identify compiler improvements
- Analyze software requirements, determine the feasibility of design within the given constraints, consult with architecture and HW engineers, and come up with software solutions best suited for Qualcomm's SOCs
- Analyze and identify system level integration issues, interface with the software development, integration and test teams
- Develop and execute benchmark and test scenarios for compilers
Minimum Skills:
- Knowledge and experience in compiler frameworks such as LLVM or gcc
- Programming in C/C++ and assembly languages
- 5 years or more of compiler engineering experience in industry or academia
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
Preferred Skills:
- Professional experience with compiler development
- LLVM or any industrial strength compiler development experience is a plus
- Knowledge of instruction sets and computer architectures - pipeline structure, hazards, cache, memory organization, etc.
- Working knowledge of system software tools such as assemblers, linkers, debuggers and experience using them
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Professional experience with large scale software codebases
- Deep knowledge of software engineering
- Master’s degree or PhD. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 2+ years of Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.OR
Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field and 1+ year of Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related work experience.
OR
PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field.
• 1+ year of any combination of academic and/or work experience with compiler or tools.
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