Compiler Engineer, GPU Acceleration

Skip to content IBM < Back to search results Compiler Engineer, GPU Acceleration San Jose, Austin, Texas, California, United States Professional Email X LinkedIn Apply now Introduction At IBM Software, we transform client challenges into solutions. Building the world’s leading AI-powered, cloud-native products that shape the future of business and society. Our legacy of innovation creates endless opportunities for IBMers to learn, grow, and make an impact on a global scale. Working in Software means joining a team fueled by curiosity and collaboration. You’ll work with diverse technologies, partners, and industries to design, develop, and deliver solutions that power digital transformation. With a culture that values innovation, growth, and continuous learning, IBM Software places you at the heart of IBM’s product and technology landscape. Here, you’ll have the tools and opportunities to advance your career while creating software that changes the world. Your role and responsibilities As a Software Developer: Generalist, you will design, develop, test, and deliver offerings using leading-edge and/or proven technologies. You will work in an Agile, collaborative environment to understand stakeholder requirements and contribute to the development of innovative software solutions. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Develop Component-Level Solutions: Design, code, and test innovative component-level software solutions, ensuring that the implemented solutions are unit tested and ready to be integrated into their product. • Contribute to CI/CD Pipeline: Contribute to the automated CI/CD pipeline that takes code through various quality stages, ensuring seamless integration and delivery. • Debug Customer-Reported Problems: Design, develop, and unit test code fixes for customer-reported problems, collaborating with stakeholders to resolve issues efficiently. • Deliver Offerings: Deliver high-quality offerings using leading-edge and/or proven technologies, meeting stakeholder requirements and expectations. • Collaborate with Stakeholders: Work in an Agile, collaborative environment to understand stakeholder requirements, providing input and guidance to ensure successful solution delivery. In this role, you will help target runtime compilation and dynamic code generation for accelerated execution for GPU-accelerated Watsonx.data. You will work on the layer that transforms logical operations into efficient executable paths for heterogeneous compute environments in Velox.Design and implement dynamic code generation for accelerated operators.Optimize compilation strategies for runtime efficiency and maintainability.Improve execution planning interfaces between engine logic and generated codeWork with GPU and engine teams to expose more operations to acceleration pathsBuild debuggability and correctness checks into generated-code workflows. Required education None Preferred education Bachelor's Degree Required technical and professional expertise Software Development & Compiler Engineering Expertise: Proven experience designing, developing, testing, and delivering high-quality software solutions using leading-edge and proven technologies, with deep hands-on expertise in compiler frameworks, language runtimes, and code generation (e.g., LLVM, MLIR, or equivalent), supported by strong C++ proficiency and systems-level reasoning.Component-Level Design & Code Generation: Strong experience designing, coding, and testing innovative component-level solutions, including compiler passes and optimizations, ensuring correctness, performance, unit testing, and seamless integration within execution engines and runtime systems.Runtime Systems & Query Processing...