Experienced Software Engineer for Physical AI

GlobalFoundriesEindhovenHybridFull-time2 weeks ago

GlobalFoundries is seeking a Principal Member of Technical Staff (MTS) – Software Engineering with a strong AI compiler architecture focus to join the Physical AI SW Engineering team in Eindhoven, Netherlands. This senior, hands-on technical leadership role will define and evolve the architecture for production-ready AI toolchains targeting heterogeneous compute platforms, including neural processing units, vector accelerators, CPUs and related embedded systems. The role requires extensive industry experience in compiler development, strong knowledge of compiler design, and hands-on experience with LLVM and/or MLIR.

What you'll do

Define and maintain the end-to-end architecture for AI compiler and toolchain capabilities across the Physical AI product portfolio.
Translate product, model and customer use cases into compiler requirements, architecture specifications, interfaces, and prioritized technical roadmaps.
Guide decisions across front-end model import, graph transformations, MLIR/LLVM-based intermediate representations, optimization, partitioning, scheduling, memory planning, code generation and deployment.
Align compiler architecture with accelerator runtime, compute-kernel libraries, firmware, verification flows, and hardware architecture.
Drive API and ABI consistency, portability and reuse across products while establishing clear extension points for product-specific capabilities.
Lead architecture reviews, design reviews, technical risk assessments and proof-of-concept work for critical or novel features.
Partner with engineering leads to decompose architectural direction into implementable epics, milestones and acceptance criteria.
Analyze performance and quality gaps using representative AI workloads, then guide optimization across the full software and hardware stack.
Collaborate with global teams, customers and ecosystem partners on integration, enablement, issue resolution and forward-looking requirements.
Mentor compiler engineers and strengthen architecture practices, documentation quality and engineering standards across the organization.
Perform all activities in a safe and responsible manner and support all Environmental, Health, Safety & Security requirements and programs.

What you need

Must-have

Compiler designIntermediate representationsOptimizationAnalysisSchedulingMemory managementCode generationLLVM

Nice-to-have

IREEXLATVMPyTorchTensorFlowTFLiteONNXPerformance analysis

Soft skills

CommunicationInfluencingMentoringPlanningOrganizationalInnovationExecutionNavigating ambiguity

Software EngineeringAI CompilerSemiconductor ManufacturingLLVMMLIRC++PythonSeniorHybridEindhoven

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