Genesis AI
Quadrants: Compiler Lead
Bay Area · On-site · Full-time · Posted Aug 19, 2026
About the job
Lead Quadrants, an open-source Python compiler for physics and performance-critical numerical computing, owning its API, compiler architecture, optimizations, primitives, and roadmap.
What you'll do
- Own the API, intermediate representation, lowering, backends, optimization passes, and numerical primitives.
- Improve and benchmark performance across Quadrants and Genesis; track regressions and guide product direction and adoption.
- Maintain a coherent, extensible compiler architecture and work with users and company engineers; grow into leading a small team.
What they ask for
- GPU programming knowledge, including memory access patterns, registers, shared memory, barriers, atomics, and threading.
- Idiomatic Python and strong API design judgment.
- Compiler knowledge spanning IR, lowering, and optimization.
- Proactive, self-directed work style; writes tests and benchmarks while developing.
Nice to have
- CPU optimization intuition.
- Experience leading or growing into leadership of a small team.
Tools
Python, NumPy, PyTorch, Arm64, x86, AMDGPU, CUDA, Metal
AI focus
AI agents may be used as productivity tools; the role retains code ownership.
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