Senior Compiler Performance Engineer

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Analyze real applications, AI/HPC workloads, and benchmarks to locate performance bottlenecks.
• Develop compiler optimizations and code-generation improvements from prototype to production.
• Own component or workload performance goals, track results in CI, and deliver measurable gains.
• Advance heterogeneous and offload compilation using SYCL, OpenMP, Triton, MLIR, and DSL programming models.
• Work with hardware architects and contribute to open-source design proposals, code, and reviews.
• Influence technical direction and engineering practices; mentor junior engineers and advise stakeholders.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related technical field and 6+ years of relevant compiler experience; or master's degree and 3+ years; or a PhD with no additional industry experience required.
• Required experience includes compiler development and performance optimization.
• Required experience includes software workload performance analysis, debugging, and optimization.
• Required experience includes software development or optimization using modern C++ and compiler technologies.

Preferred qualifications

• Preferred experience includes LLVM, Clang, or other compiler infrastructure.
• Preferred experience includes CPU, GPU, or HPC performance optimization and compiler improvement initiatives.
• Technical problem-solving, full product-cycle delivery, communication, and mentoring experience are preferred.

Work model

• The role is eligible for a hybrid work model, splitting time between an assigned Intel site and off-site work.

Compensation

• The stated annual salary range for Canada is CAD 155,888–220,069; the range depends on factors including location and experience.