IBM Linux Compiler Developer - LLVM 

Canada, Ontario, Markham 

81555034

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a key member of our dynamic team, you will play a vital role in crafting exceptional software experiences.

Your responsibilities will comprise of design and specifications for new enhancements, coding, problem determination and bug fixing, performance analysis, submitting your code to upstream community repositories, and solving client problems. Your attendance at Open Source community meetings is recommended and supported, and client facing activities (e.g. client support, providing lectures at conferences) are possible. You will closely interact with the respective Open Source communities (“upstream integration” of your code) and our distribution partners (Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical).

In this job offering, we are specifically looking for a new member to grow our compilers/toolchain development squad.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 3+ years of experience in Open Source development in one or more areas of LLVM, GCC, Glibc, GDB
• 2+ years of experience in low-level/assembler development (preferably on non-x86 architectures)
• 2+ years of experience in operating systems, compiler development and performance optimizations
• Expert skills in source code repository systems (e.g. git), scripting languages (e.g. Python) and test Automation (e.g. Jenkins)
• You are highly motivated
• English (fluent) language skills

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Contributions to Open Source projects or Open Source maintainer status (for multiple years)
• Skills in emulation (e.g. qemu TCG) technologies
• Skills in low-level performance analysis and tuning (sampling, tracing)
• Skills in IBM Z architecture (“Principles of Operations”), Z assembler