Senior Compiler Engineer (Miden)

2 Months ago • 4-8 Years • Frontend Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Senior Compiler Engineer at Polygon Labs, you'll contribute to the development of the Miden compiler toolchain, encompassing Rust frontend tooling, WebAssembly frontend, compiler driver, middle-end, and Miden Assembly backend. Responsibilities include implementing new features, optimizing existing ones, debugging, and enhancing the developer experience. Collaboration involves design discussions, feedback gathering from experts, and applying cutting-edge research. You'll also interface with teams working on higher-level languages and provide input on the Miden Virtual Machine and Miden Assembly language.
Must have:
  • Production compiler experience (clang/gcc/LLVM/MLIR)
  • Passion for compiler development & tooling
  • Rust experience
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Improve compiler frontend and backend
Good to have:
  • Solidity and smart contract familiarity
  • Interest in zero-knowledge proofs and blockchain
Perks:
  • Remote-first global workforce
  • Industry-leading health insurance
  • 401k matching
  • Home office setup allowance
  • Book allowance
  • Internet/phone reimbursement
  • Flexible time off
  • Wellness day off
  • Company laptop
  • Egg freezing, mental health, and wellness benefits

Job Details

About Polygon Labs

Polygon Labs is a software development company building and developing a network of aggregated blockchains via the Agglayer, secured by Ethereum. As public infrastructure, the Agglayer will bring together user bases and liquidity for any connected chain, and leverage Ethereum as a settlement layer. Polygon Labs has also contributed to the core development of several widely-adopted scaling protocols and tools for launching blockchains, including Polygon PoS, Polygon zkEVM, and Polygon Miden, which is in development as well as Polygon CDK.

About Miden

Polygon Miden aims to be the most innovative and easy-to-use zkRollup for Ethereum. We will enable use cases beyond what is currently possible with EVM-centric architectures, e.g. parallel transaction execution and account abstraction. At the heart of our rollup is the Miden Virtual Machine - a zk-optimized VM designed from the ground up. Currently, we focus on the rollup design, recursive verification, and developer experience.

Your Role

The Compiler Engineer role will be responsible for participating in developing the Miden compiler toolchain, including the Rust frontend tooling, the WebAssembly frontend, the compiler driver, the middle-end, and the Miden Assembly backend. Some of your tasks may also require working on other Miden projects, such as the VM. You will be implementing new features, expanding on existing ones, fixing compiler bugs, implementing optimizations, and improving the developer experience of the toolchain itself.

You will also participate in design discussions, evaluate usability, gather feedback from and support experts in the field who are using the compiler, put your compiler engineering skills into practice, and evaluate and apply cutting-edge research, techniques, and tools to the development of the Miden compiler.

See the latest release of our Miden Compiler.

Your Responsibilities

  • Support design and implementation of the Miden compiler to Miden assembly. 

  • Improving and hardening the compiler frontend and gradually shift to trickier problems in the backend.

  • Provide feedback and inform design decisions of the Miden Virtual Machine, and features of the Miden Assembly language.

  • Interface with the teams working on designing and implementing higher-level languages we target.


What You'll Need

  • Prior experience working on production compilers or compiler projects, e.g. clang/gcc or LLVM/MLIR etc

  • Passion for compiler development and developer tooling.

  • Intellectual curiosity and willingness to learn. You don’t have to know it all, so long as you make up for it in ability to pick up complex topics quickly, are comfortable digging into tricky algorithmic code, and are the type of person to dig in to a problem until you understand it thoroughly.

  • Experience in Rust.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Familiarity with smart contracts and Solidity. 

  • Passionate about compiler technology and open-source software, and eager to learn

  • Interest in zero-knowledge proof-based blockchain systems and programming language design.

Polygon Labs Perks

The goal of the Polygon Labs total rewards program is to support the health and well-being of you and your family. Our comprehensive compensation plan includes the following benefits for our full time employees:

  • Remote first global workforce

  • Industry leading Medical, Dental and Vision health insurance*

  • Company matching 401k with 3% match*

  • $1,500 Home Office Set Up Allowance (life-time max)

  • $200 Annual Book Allowance Program

  • $75 Monthly internet or phone reimbursement

  • Flexible Time Off

  • 1 company wide wellness Friday day off per quarter

  • Company issued laptop

  • Egg freezing, mental health, and employee wellness benefits

*In certain countries medical, dental and vision is fully covered for employees & their dependents. This is country and plan specific.

*401k is for United States employees only

Polygon Labs is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. Polygon Labs is committed to treating all people in a way that allows them to maintain their dignity and independence. We believe in integration and equal opportunity. Accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process and applicants with a disability may request to be accommodated throughout the recruitment process. We will work with all applicants to accommodate their individual accessibility needs.

If you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit.

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