Compiler Engineer
Staff Compiler Engineer (LLVM)
Location: Cambridge, UK
Working Model: Fully onsite (5 days per week)
Relocation & Visa Support: Available
The opportunity
We’re supporting a large, globally established technology company that is building out a new compiler team in Cambridge. This is a senior-level role working on production compiler technology that ships at global scale, tightly integrated with next-generation silicon.
While the team works closely with GPU and accelerator hardware, this role is fundamentally backend-compiler focused. Prior GPU experience is not required — strong compiler
fundamentals and LLVM backend experience are the key requirements.
If you enjoy working close to hardware, solving performance-critical problems, and having real influence over low-level architecture decisions, this is a standout opportunity.
Compiler Engineer Responsibilities
- Designing and implementing LLVM backend compiler features
- Working on instruction selection, scheduling, register allocation, and code generation
- Optimising generated code for performance, power efficiency, and correctness
- Collaborating closely with hardware architects and systems engineers
- Building and maintaining compiler tests, benchmarks, and validation infrastructure
- Debugging complex low-level issues across compiler and hardware boundaries
Compiler Engineer Background
- Strong experience in compiler development, ideally with LLVM
- Solid C/C++ and systems-level programming skills
- Good understanding of computer architecture and low-level performance concepts
- Experience working on performance-critical or hardware-adjacent software
If this position sounds of interest please reach out to Harry Hansford @ IC Resources
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