What are the responsibilities and job description for the Compiler/Toolchain Engineer position at MediaTek?
Job Description
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
