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This confidential startup is redefining the future of AI accessibility through innovative, domain-specific software solutions. The Lead Architect will play a central role in developing a new domain-specific language (DSL) and its supporting compiler and runtime infrastructure, designed to transform how AI workloads are expressed, optimized, and executed. This role involves shaping the foundation of a next-generation AI software stack, driving language design, compiler architecture, and runtime efficiency in close collaboration with a world-class team focused on advancing AI systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and design a new DSL to accelerate and optimize AI workloads across training and inference pipelines
- Lead the development of compiler and runtime systems for the DSL, ensuring high performance, scalability, and seamless integration with AI hardware/software stacks
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including AI researchers, hardware architects, systems engineers, and product managers, to align language and runtime capabilities
- Develop a Python-based programming model
Qualifications
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field
- 10+ years of experience in compiler design and implementation, including significant experience with domain-specific languages
- Proven expertise in language design and runtime systems, ideally for high-performance computing, machine learning
- Strong hands-on experience with compiler infrastructure (e.g., LLVM, MLIR, TVM, Halide, XLA, Glow)
- Experience building or contributing to Python-based DSLs