Software Compiler Engineer
📌Santa Clara, United States 🇺🇸
⏱︎ full-time
🧙♂️ mid-level
💰 150000
hybrid
Compensation: $150K–$300K + Competitive Equity | Visa Sponsorship: H-1B, O-1, OPT
🚀 About the Opportunity
Initio Capital is hiring a Software Compiler Engineer on behalf of a stealth-mode systems startup building the next-generation server architecture for high-performance, energy-efficient, and secure computing.
This is a rare opportunity to contribute to foundational technology in a space that’s redefining silicon and software co-design. The company is tackling compiler infrastructure at the bleeding edge of open-source (LLVM, GCC, binutils), working hand-in-hand with hardware and architecture teams to bridge the gap between RISC-V hardware and modern software stacks.
🧠 About the Role
As a Compiler Engineer , you’ll own critical pieces of toolchain development—helping optimize compiler output, run performance benchmarks, and solve real-world bottlenecks. You’ll make upstream contributions to key open-source ecosystems while also shipping tools that impact next-generation chips.
This is an extremely high-leverage technical role, ideal for someone who thrives at the intersection of software, compilers, and architecture.
🔧 What You’ll Do
- Contribute to and extend compilers such as LLVM, GCC, and binutils
- Benchmark and analyze compiler performance against real-world workloads
- Optimize code generation for RISC-V targets and beyond
- Work cross-functionally with architecture and silicon teams to align compiler improvements with hardware design
- Push upstream patches and improve the broader open-source toolchain ecosystem
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Shape the roadmap for tooling infrastructure supporting custom silicon deployments
- 3–5+ years of experience in compiler/toolchain development
- Strong fluency in C/C++ (required); Rust is a plus
- Deep understanding of compiler internals (LLVM or GCC in particular)
- Proven experience profiling workloads and improving compiler output
- Ability to think across the hardware/software boundary
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Clear communication and collaborative approach to solving low-level systems problems
- Prior contributions to open-source compilers or toolchain libraries
- Familiarity with the RISC-V instruction set and architecture
- Experience in chip simulation, systems programming, or microarchitecture modeling
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Real-world experience improving performance for compute-heavy applications
- Base Salary: $150K – $300K
- Equity: Competitive early-stage equity package
- H-1B, O-1, and OPT sponsorship available
- Opportunity to work on cutting-edge infrastructure tech with top-tier engineering talent
- Hybrid work setup in Santa Clara, CA
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Backed by leading investors in silicon, hardware, and systems innovation
Apply now to join the founding engineering team.
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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