Complier Engineer

• Identifying and isolating bottlenecks/pain-points in the developer experience of using the PlayStation toolchain,
• Collaborating with partners (game studios, middleware vendors), internal teams, and the open-source community to find solutions,
• Prototyping and evaluating systems to improve developer experience,
• Discovering, clarifying and managing requirements throughout the development process,
• Engaging with the open-source community to develop solutions that are beneficial to our customers and the broader OSS community,
• Contributing to our other compiler team duties of responding to partner issue reports, general maintenance and code review,
• Mentoring and encouraging junior developers, and advocating team-wide improvements.

• Computer science (or similar) degree,
• 7+ experience with C/C++ and developing in a native environment,
• 5 to 10 years experience in a professional software development environment,
• Familiarity and/or development history with LLVM or similarly complex compiler technology,
• Strong communication skills and willingness to address seemingly insoluble problems,
• Experience with profilers, debuggers, linkers, and other components used for native application development,
• Experience with open-source development workflows, public discussions on mailing lists, code reviews.

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with the C++ specification,
• Experience in game development or a similar environment (high performance, large codebases),
• Knowledge of AMD64 microarchitectures and their performance characteristics,
• A desire to improve the quality-of-life of software developers.

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