# Principal AI Compiler Engineer

Locations available: San Diego and San Jose, California or Austin, Texas NXP is searching for a hands-on AI Compiler Engineer who thrives at the convergence of cutting-edge AI, compiler tech, and hardware design. Here, you’ll not only architect and scale a production-class AI compiler toolchain, but also rethink how AI automates, optimizes, and accelerates every step of building and deploying neural networks on NXP’s SoCs. You’ll work shoulder-to-shoulder with visionary engineers-both human and AI-enabling adaptive compilers that learn, evolve, and redefine what’s possible for embedded intelligence. With a relentless focus on hardware-software co-design, you’ll collaborate across teams to translate high-level AI models into blazing-fast, energy-efficient executables, unlocking the full potential of our silicon for real-world impact. Innovation here isn’t a catchphrase-it’s your everyday. Job Responsibilities: Own the design, implementation, and evolution of an AI compiler toolchain that leverages AI agents to seamlessly map neural networks onto NXP’s SoC platforms. Pioneer new graph transformations, lowering, scheduling, and codegen strategies for CPUs and custom accelerators, driv

- **Id**: 163829
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nxp-semiconductors-principal-ai-compiler-engineer>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Austin, United States, San Jose, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-05-17T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-05-17
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T13:38:26Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 180
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3365
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Processors, MCUs & AI Chips, RF & Wireless Hardware, Analog & Power Semiconductors

## Company

- **Id**: 17368
- **Name**: NXP Semiconductors
- **Domain**: nxp.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nxp>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 82
- **Open postings**: 166
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.711
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 45
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 167000
- **Max usd**: 347000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 782

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Apache TVM** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **LLVM** — Optional: no
- **MLIR** — Optional: no
- **ONNX** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Quantization** — Optional: no
- **Scrum** — Optional: no
- **TensorFlow** — Optional: no
- **TensorFlow C++** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 180

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-05-17T00:00:00Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 141 · green card filings: 66; Filings 12m: 141

## Liveness

- **Score**: 9
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 0.9
- **P active**: 0.355
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 179
- **Expected fill days**: 45
- **Reasons**: conf:93, stale_co, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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