Senior Compiler Developer

Introduction

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI — to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labour, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across businesses. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approaches to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

Your Role And Responsibilities

The IBM Compilation Technology team is looking for Software Developers to join our mission to deliver leading-edge compiler offerings. The IBM Compilation Technology team is known for developing world-class compilers and runtimes. Our squads are autonomous, multi-disciplinary teams, consisting of talented software developers with knowledge in new and up and coming language standards, hardware design, compiler optimization expertise, contribute to the open source and proprietary compiler technologies, and proven software development skills.

As a senior software developer, you will work with clients and others in a multidisciplinary team to define requirements and develop solutions. You will design, code, and test solutions for IBM Z or IBM Power platform. You will support the product through maintenance activities such as responding to high severity problems and cases, performing problem diagnosis, providing fixes, and regression testing fixes.

Preferred Education

Master's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• 10+ years of software development experience
• Expertise coding in one or more of the following languages: C++, C, Assembly
• Experience working in UNIX and/or Linux operating systems
• Strong Technical Leadership experience
• Has aptitude for low level programming (e.g. projects involving assembler or embedded systems, taken courses such as computer architecture, operating systems, microprocessor systems, etc.)
• Experience in developing tools and products using at least one of the following scripting languages – Bash, Perl, Ansible, Python
• Proficient in source control (GitHub, Tekton, Jenkins) and Agile Life Cycle Management tools
• Strong analytical, debugging and problem-solving skills to analyze issues and defects reported by customer-facing and test teams
• Self-motivated towards meeting agreed goals
• Ability to Innovate in the areas of Product Engineering
• Open to Cross Time Zone Collaboration
• Ability to use conference and collaboration tools effectively
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

In addition to the must have skills, experience with any of the following would be an asset:

• Compiler development (compiler construction or compiler optimization)
• LLVM
• Expertise coding in any of: Java, JavaScript, Go, Rust, COBOL, Fortran, PL/I or PL/X
• Experience with debugging and DWARF
• Contributing, or have contributed, to open-source projects
• Basic knowledge in one or more computer architectures, and of hardware/software interactions
• Working in any of z/Architecture architecture, PowerPC architecture, z/OS Systems Programming, AIX environments
• Creating and automating of testcases
• CI/CD and build pipelines
• Agile Development Model
• Design and Development of Code using Security Best Practices