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You write that you currently work full time at Microsoft, a company with a large developer tools division that actively develops several language compilers. Have you reached out to managers in those groups to learn if they have (or could create) opportunities that match your interests?
I really don’t get this post. They are working on a phd in compilers and work at one of the best software companies in the world. Why can’t they just try and transfer?
Right now, I work on a hardware AI accelerator. Not directly on the compiler at this place, but there's a large compiler team. Before this, I was doing something similar.
There's actually a huge open space right now. Don't limit yourself just to turing-complete, general-purpose languages on general purpose architectures. The more specialized, the more opportunity.
I'm a bit surprised by what you write. Until recently I was heading a compiler team. We found it impossible to hire experienced compiler engineers despite paying very well, so we essentially switched to hiring promising university graduates and trained them on the job. My peers in other companies are all in the same situation. Note that there is a mismatch between academic and industrial compiler work. A university c…
Specifically, I work on LLVM and there are dozens of job ads in every developer meeting or on https://discourse.llvm.org/c/community/job-postings/16.
> My goal is to actually use the concepts I spent so much to learn in my PhD in my career. Hmmm... That was me, 12 years ago, after having done a Ph.D. focussing on computational semantics (the nlp-kind, not the compiler-kind). Trying to apply it anywhere in industry has been my white whale ever since. I'd recommend de-emphasizing the "I'd like to work here to apply this incredibly specific thing that I've been worki…
You write that you currently work full time at Microsoft, a company with a large developer tools division that actively develops several language compilers. Have you reached out to managers in those groups to learn if they have (or could create) opportunities that match your interests?
Exactly what I thought. Microsoft is probably one of the most appropriate companies to work for if you want to work on compilers. If Microsoft is not working out, I guess Apple would be a great alternative.
If you already work at MSFT, why not chat to the compiler folks there?