Staff Compiler Performance Engineer

Define the performance strategy for Falcon: identify the largest opportunities across benchmarks and customer workloads and turn them into a technical roadmap

Lead design of complex, cross cutting optimizations in the optimizer and code generator, and of the interfaces between the compiler, the runtime and the garbage collector

Make architectural decisions on the Falcon optimization pipeline, compile time budget and tiering strategy

Lead enablement of Falcon on new hardware platforms and new Azul products

Mentor senior engineers, review critical designs and code, and set standards for performance methodology and validation

Represent Azul in the LLVM community: drive upstream design discussions and contributions that benefit managed language compilers

8+ years of professional experience developing optimizing compilers or JIT compilers

Track record of technical leadership: owning the design of major compiler components or optimization frameworks used in production

Expert C++ skills and experience in large, long lived codebases

Deep expertise in compiler optimization and code generation, with a clear view of the tradeoffs between peak performance, compile time, warmup and code size

Expert performance analysis skills down to the microarchitecture level