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IBM Compiler Optimization Developer in Markham, Ontario

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customers challenges into solutions.

Seeking new possibilities and always staying curious, we are a team dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud- software solutions for our customers. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our IBMers, so the door is always open for those who want to grow their career.

As part of our team, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining high-quality software products, working with a variety of technologies and programming languages.

IBM's product and technology landscape includes Research, Software, and Infrastructure. Entering this domain positions you at the heart of IBM, where growth and innovation thrive.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Your Role and Responsibilities :

As an IBM Runtimes Open-Source Compiler Developer, you will join the hundreds of developers actively contributing to our public GitHub projects, using industry standard tools like Git, ZenHub, Jenkins, and Slack. Our development lifecycle and activities, from concept to delivery, happen openly in collaboration with community developers and researchers and we support building your own developer identity and influence in the various programming languages and runtimes communities. As an IBM developer, you of course have access to the full range of IBM teams and technologies, so you are able to influence the whole stack optimization efforts in IBM, from hardware design to OS to language runtime to middleware to cloud and cloud native applications.

We are looking to hire a developer who will join the JIT (Just-In-Time) Compiler team in Toronto. You will collaborate with team to identify performance improvement opportunities through benchmarking and analysis, implement new or tune existing features and optimizations in the JIT compiler, and collaborate with IBM and open community developers of other Java runtime components, hardware, OS, up-stack products, and frameworks to drive changes and new features to achieve optimal performance of the whole stack. You will also collaborate to ensure functional and performant implementation of new Java language features, new hardware/OS features and capabilities into our open-source Java runtime and compiler.

You should be comfortable developing in an environment that is mostly C and C++ based. You should have interest in building a thorough understanding of processor architecture, whole-stack performance analysis and problem determination. Prior experience working on open-source projects and demonstrated influence in the open communities, academic research and industry standards is very desirable. We follow Agile practices where work and design is open and collaborative, but also where individuals are expected to operate with a level of autonomy and responsibility.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

  • 2+ year of experience with C and C++ programming, runtime, data structures and algorithms

  • Linux / UNIX development experience

  • Good knowledge of Operating System and one or more processor architectures, e.g. x86, ARM, POWER, and Z

  • Strong interest in whole-stack performance analysis and problem determination, quick prototyping, and iterative experimentation

  • Excellent communication skills and proven ability in influencing open-source community developers, academic and industry partners

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

  • Experience with Open-source development tools and projects

  • Experience working in an open source, transparent, and agile development team

  • Prior experience in whole stack performance analysis

  • Prior experience in Compilers, Runtimes, Operating Systems, or related areas

About Business UnitIBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence-from to generative AI-to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM's AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM's hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments-a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

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Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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About IBMIBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

Location StatementMust have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.

Being You @ IBMIBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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