Compiler/Toolchain Engineer

MediaTek is the world’s 5th largest global fabless semiconductor company and powers more than 2 billion devices a year. We lead the market in chipset technology for Smart TVs, Voice Assistant Devices (VAD), Android tablets, and smart phones.

At the heart of the MediaTek chips that power millions of phones around the world is a heterogeneous system-on-a-chip with application specific processors, running code highly optimized by MediaTek’s LLVM/DSP compilers. We are looking for exceptional engineers to join our Boston-area Compiler and Code Generation team and develop the optimizing compilers for our application specific processors including upcoming 5G and future 6G modems.

We’re Particularly Interested In

Higher level programming paradigms (including MLIR)

Loop code generation and scheduling

Using machine learning techniques in compilation

The relationship between compiler and processor design

Responsibilities

Analyze and design compiler optimizations

Develop compiler support for new processor architectures

Analyze and improve generated code performance, stability, and efficiency of our toolchain

Collaborate closely with global teams across the company, including working with the processor development team to prototype and suggest architectural improvements, and coordinating with the firmware team to develop efficient programming strategies and enhance code efficiency

Conduct design and code reviews

Engage with internal customers and deliver answers/updates/features to support their development

Minimum Qualifications

Experience developing and contributing to production compiler such as LLVM, GCC, ICC, MSVC

Experience developing compiler code generators/optimizers

Excellent coding (C/C++), problem solving and analysis skills, including experience with assembly code

Passion for programming languages, computer architecture, and/or code optimization

MS or PhD degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Electrical or Computer Engineering or related majors.

Preferred Qualifications

Understanding of modern processor instruction set architectures, including multi-core, multi-thread, vector processing, and heterogeneous accelerators

Embedded systems programming experience (especially RISC/MIPS)

Wireless algorithm background is helpful