# Staff Mojo Compiler Engineer at Modular

- Company: Modular
- What the company does: The unified AI inference stack - from custom GPU kernels to production cloud serving on NVIDIA and AMD. 2x performance. Top open models. Open source stack. Backed by General Catalyst, Greylock and GV.
- Company website: https://www.modular.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: United States - Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $207K to $310K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-07-14
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.gem.com/modular/am9icG9zdDoqvvxKHoUi-6FKxih0-eOh
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/modular-staff-mojo-compiler-engineer/

## About the role

This is a technical leadership (IC) role in collaboration with the compiler engineering manager; you will be driving the technical roadmap for the Mojo compiler backend, creating new features, proposing new ideas, driving code reviews and leading design documents. Mentoring other engineers is a key element of this role.

## What they're looking for

- Deep, hands-on compiler experience,IR design, optimization passes, and code generation in a production toolchain
- Strong experience with both LLVM and MLIR — comfortable across dialects, lowering pipelines, and codegen
- A track record of technical leadership without formal management: leading projects, setting architecture, and growing other engineers
- Strong C++ and Python
- Hands-on experience with debuggers in the LLDB and GDB family, not just using them, but ideally extending or building debugger support for a language or runtime
- Familiarity with editor/IDE tooling, language servers (LSP), VS Code extensions, or comparable developer-experience surfaces