Compiler, Language and Runtime Teams
A listing of compiler, language and runtime teams for people looking for jobs in this area. My motivation for curating this is in this blog post.
In Scope: Teams that work on language implementations, compilers for languages, language runtimes, static analysis, etc.
Contributing
Please contribute: Pass on projects, teams, companies I’ve missed.
Feel free to spruce up the description of the work for teams you know about! Many of these are simply stubs
Annotations:
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📤: Remote Work Supported
At the time the icon was added, the company offered remote work.
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🧑🎓: Internships offered
These companies are known to have offered internships or co-ops in compiler, languages and runtimes.
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🗺 : Location
Derived from job postings or other knowledge, this is where the team works. Definitely not comprehensive! Please, help me update this too!
Companies ()
- LLVM Toolchain Development
🗺 New York (US), Paris & Grenoble & Toulouse & Vannes (France), Bristol (UK), Tallinn (Estonia)
🗺 Karlsruhe, Germany
🗺 Santa Clara, CA
- Computer vision AI hardware compiler
- Pyston: General-purpose Python JIT originally developed at Dropbox
🗺 Toronto / Markham, Canada
- Quantum Compiler Development
- MLIR/LLVM
🗺 Cupertino, CA
- Clang and LLVM
- Swift
- JSC (JavaScript interpreter created as part of WebKit)
- Static Analysis tooling
- Multiple teams supporting the ARM ISA.
🗺 Campbell, CA, Stavanger and Oslo, Norway
- LLVM and Hardware codesign.
- Ruff, a linter and autoformatter for Python code written in Rust.
🗺 Quebec, Ontario
- Java Virtual Machine
- Falcon JIT compiler (LLVM)
🗺 Pittsburgh, PA
🗺 Cambridge, MA
- Building the Hail project for genomics, including a custom language and compiler.
🗺 Upton, New York
Work on the Programming Models and Compilers (PMC) group of the Computational Science Initiative.
🗺 Mountain View, California
- Performance analysis and optimization
🗺 Los Altos, CA, San Diego, CA or Toronto, Canada
- Cloudflare Workers: V8 (WebAssembly, Javascript, deployed at the edge)
- Clojure and ClojureScript
🗺 Austin, TX
- Building an LLVM based C compiler for Coherent Logix’s multicore chip.
🗺 New York City
- Building languages for probabilistic programming and causal reasoning.
- Static/Dynamic analyses and code transformation.
- Julia oriented.
- Custom LLVM-based compiler toolchains for clients
🗺 US, Canada
- The Sensor and Language Tooling (SaLT) team works on a DSL to script Falcon’s threat detection sensor
🗺 _Santa Clara, California _
- Deep Neural Network hardware, with associated compiler (LLVM+MLIR)
- JavaScript runtime and tools written in Rust
🗺 Kingston, ON (Canada)
- Distributed Computing on Web Stack - scheduling, WASM toolchains, etc.
- PythonMonkey, deep embedding of SpiderMonkey (JS engine) into Python VM
🗺 San Fransisco CA, Palo Alto CA, Zurich Switzerland
- Motoko programming language and system for blockchain smartcontracts.
- C/C++ compilers
- D compiler
🗺 Tokyo, Japan
- Machine learning hardware compilers
🗺 Southampton, UK, Nürnberg, Germany
- Open Source toolchain development, with a primary focus on GCC, LLVM and Verilator.
🗺 Karlsruhe, Germany
- Source-to-source compilers
- Static analysis (LLVM)
- Parallelizing transformations
- Compiler for visual programming language, JIT based on Graal/Truffle.
- DSL compiler and toolchain for game development
🗺 Mountain View, California Austin, Texas Portland, Oregon
- LLVM and GLOW compiler teams for RISC-V AI acceleration.
🗺 Brno, Czechia
- GNU GCC, GDB, Binutils development for Xtensa and other architectures.
- LLVM-based compiler for custom cryptographic hardware
A variety of projects, a limited subset of which I know about below.
🗺 Boulder, CO
- Aquamarine, a distributed choreography language & platform
- Building Sway, a smart-contract programming language
🗺 Arlington, VA
- Programming language design and implementation for building trustworthy computing.
- CodeQL, a query language for writing custom static analysis rules
🗺 Mountain View, CA and Seattle, WA
Innumerable projects, but off the top of my head:
🗺 Eindhoven, NL
Our team develops the MLIR based ML compiler for our own neuromorphic/dataflow architecture.
🗺 Ithaca, NY
🗺 Bristol, Cambridge, UK
- Machine learning hardware compiler (LLVM)
- Certified C/C++ for Embedded
🗺 Portland, Mountain View, Toronto
- Machine Learning Hardware compilers
🗺 Leuven, Belgium / Munich, Germany
- ProGuard
- LLVM-based software protection and hardening
- Android application protection and hardening
- Mobile application security testing
🗺 Singapore
- Quantum computing compiler
- Chapel
- Cray Programming Environment, a suite of Fortran, C and C++ compilers
- Research and Development work in compilers and runtime systems.
- LLVM
- Rust
🗺 Markham, Ontario, Canada
As well as some other IBM internal compilers, and LLVM projects.
🗺 A Coruña, Galicia, Spain / Worldwide
- Consultancy which is heavily involved in free and open source software, and the web platform. Known in compilers circles for work on scripting engines (SpiderMonkey, V8, JSC), as well as LLVM and Guile.
🗺 New York, London
🗺 Munich & Berlin Germany, Prague Czech Republic, Amsterdam Netherlands, Cyprus, Serbia, Armenia (other locations for non-compiler jobs)
🗺 SF Bay Area, CA
- DSL to generate circuit board designs
🗺 Boston, MA
- Machine learning hardware compilers
🗺 Paris, France
- Compiler for a visual programming language.
🗺 Natick, MA, USA
🗺 Moscow, Russia
- LCC optimizing compiler for MCST’s chips
- Binary translator from x86 to own Elbrus ISA
🗺 Woburn, MA, USA
- Compiler development for MediaTek chips
- Compiler development for Microchip’s chips.
- Koka, Lean, F* (F-star)
- probably other things too.
- Building Glow, a language for DApps
🗺 SF Bay Area, CA
- Machine learning hardware compilers
- Get to contribute to a compiler for a target language with a novel memory model
- Opportunity to work on tooling support
🗺 Israel
- Compiler for specialised HPC hardware
🗺 Redmond, WA
- Compiler improvements for AI workloads.
- Python and C++
- LLVM / MLIR / PyTorch
- Compiler Engineering (Rust) - Slang
- Ethereum Development Runtime (Rust) - EDR
- Toolchain development (LLVM, GCC)
- OCaml compiler and runtime
🗺 Montreal, QC, Canada
- Compilers for Octasic’s multi-core digital signal processors (LLVM)
🗺 San Fransisco
- Triton, a language and compiler for writing highly efficient custom Deep-Learning primitives
- OpenJDK, including the hotspot compiler
🗺 Zurich, Linz, California, Prague, Brno, Lviv, Casablanca, Belgrade, Remote (📤)
🗺 New York, US / Remote (US/Europe)
- Polar: a logic programming language for
expressing authorization logic and policies.
🗺 San Francisco, 📤 Remote
- Bun: a JavaScript runtime with a native bundler, transpiler, task runner, and npm client built-in.
🗺 Aarhus, Denmark
- Creating a language for multi-party computation.
🗺 Milpitas, CA
- P4 compiler targetting the Capri processor (LLVM)
🗺 Portland
- PGI’s compilers
- Flang, a Fortran frontend for LLVM
🗺 US
🗺 San Fransisco
- Scala + Spark engineering (Query optimizer)
🗺 Burlingame, CA
- LLVM development for Quadric platform
🗺 Paris, France (remote available within France)
- A security product built on LLVM
🗺 San Fransisco, CA
- DSL for optimising biotech procedures and executing them in a physical biology lab
- A variety of compiler/language engineering projects, providing modernization and cost reduction.
- LLVM
- Polyhedral compilation
- Quantum Computing Compiler (LLVM + Rust)
🗺 Mountain View CA , Austin TX, Portland OR, Fort Collins CO,
🗺 Cambridge, UK
- LLVM contribution for RISC-V
🗺 San Mateo, CA
- Embedded scripting languages for the Roblox game engine, for example Luau
- Deep Learning Compiler (MLIR)
- Place & Route (PNR)
🗺 San Jose
- JIT Compiler for Samsung GPU (OpenGL-ES, OpenCL)
- Scala compiler (JVM, Scala.js, Scala native), editor integration and tooling
🗺 Austin, TX
- DMS, a suite of program transformation tools for large scale software systems
- PARLANSE, a parallel programming language
- Compiler technology used for application security.
- Ruby
- Static analysis and typing
- Interpreters, garbage collectors
- JVM, Truffle, Graal
🗺 A number of locations
A number of Compiler/PL projects:
- HDL Compilers
- DSL Compilers
- Industrial Automation Compilation
🗺 San Mateo, California, Hsinchu Taiwan
🗺 Cologne
- Heterogenous architecture development
🗺 Bucharest, Romania
- Snyk Code, a static analysis tool that exists as part of the Snyk platform
- Solang, a compiler for Solidity that targets WebAssembly and BPF
🗺 US, Canada, Colombia
🗺 Bangalore, India
- LLVM Compiler Development
🗺 Grenoble, France
- Support for STMicroelectronic products
- Clang, LLVM
🗺 US, Canada, Europe
- Makers of Open Policy Agent
and the datalog-derived logic programming language Rego.
- Interpreters, compiler (e.g. compiling Rego to Wasm), and applications of static analysis.
- Working on Program Synthesis
- Compiler toolchain development for a new architecture that supports binary translation.
🗺 Toronto, ON
- Machine learning hardware compilers
🗺 SF Bay Area
- Machine learning hardware compilers, LLVM
🗺 Vienna
- Compiler support for ARM SoC
- LLVM
- TI specific compiler toolchains
🗺 Mountain View, CA
- Compilers for mobile platforms
Security firm that does compiler engineering and research
🗺 San Francisco, Paris
- .NET
- Mono
- IL2CPP, a compiler to convert .NET IL to C++
Building machine learning hardware
- RISC-V Architecture
- GCC
- LLVM
- Performance Analysis
🗺 United States
Static analysis framework for JavaScript applications
Automated analysis of blockchain programs, built atop LLVM
🗺 Bristol / Cambridge
Toolchain development for RISC-V core with novel hardware memory allocation management technology.
- WebAssembly runtime (LLVM)
🗺 Mountain View, CA
- Machine learning hardware compiler
- Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC)
🗺 Wellington, NZ
- Shader Language development
- LLVM
🗺 Karlsruhe, Germany
- compiler development and security research with LLVM, .NET CIL, Python and more
🗺 Linköping, Sweden
- Wolfram language, WolframAlpha, Mathematica
- Modelica
🗺 Pleasanton, CA
- Compiler, runtime and IDE for Workday’s proprietary programming languages, XpressO and YP
🗺 Tokyo, Japan
- Static analysis and developer tools for vehicle software.
🗺 Cologne, Germany
- Compiler for FPGA Systems
🗺 Toronto, Canada
- Compilation stack for quantum computing and hybrid computation
- LLVM, MLIR, QIR
🗺 Dundee, Scotland
- LLVM
- GML (GameMaker Language) compiler
- JavaScript compiler
- Integrated Development Environment targeting desktop, web, mobile and games console environments
🗺 Foster City, CA
- Program analysis tools for verifying firmware