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title: 'Front End Compiler at Lemurian Labs'
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# Front End Compiler at Lemurian Labs

- **Company:** Lemurian Labs
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA / Toronto, Canada
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-02-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lemurianlabs/jobs/4118625009

## Job description

## About Us

At Lemurian Labs, we're reimagining the foundations of computing to make AI accessible to everyone. Our mission is to remove the limits of scale, hardware, and cost that hold back innovation, so the people solving humanity's hardest problems can move faster.

We're building a new kind of software stack: a hardware-agnostic platform that makes every system — from a laptop to a supercomputer — feel like one seamless engine. Developers can write once, run anywhere, and get state-of-the-art performance across any chip, any cloud, at any scale. It's a complete rethink of how software and hardware interact — designed for the era beyond Moore's Law.

We're not looking for the comfortable or the conventional; we're looking for the bold. The engineers who crave frontier problems, who want to bend the limits of what's possible, who see infrastructure not as a constraint but as a canvas. If you want to build the foundation for the next era of AI and change what humanity can achieve in the process, join us.

## About the Role

We're looking for a Front End Compiler Engineer to own the ingestion layer of our high-performance, portable AI compiler. This is where the journey begins — you'll build the systems that parse, validate, and lower representations from frameworks like PyTorch, StableHLO, ONNX, and MLIR dialects into our internal compiler IR, setting the stage for everything that follows.

If you're drawn to the elegance of well-designed language frontends, care deeply about correctness and coverage, and want your work to directly enable next-generation AI models to run anywhere — this is the role for you.

## What You'll Do

- Design, develop, and maintain the front end of our heterogeneous AI compiler, including parsing, validation, and IR lowering stages
- Build and extend ingestion pipelines for ML frameworks and representations including PyTorch, StableHLO, ONNX, and MLIR-based dialects
- Define and evolve the interface between external model representations and our internal compiler IR
- Ensure correctness and completeness of operator coverage across supported frameworks and hardware targets
- Collaborate with graph optimization and code generation teams to ensure clean, well-structured IR that enables downstream transformations
- Use performance and correctness data to identify gaps in coverage and drive improvements
- Contribute to documentation and tooling that helps ML engineers understand and debug the ingestion process

## Requirements

Essential Skills and Experience

- BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- 2+ years of experienceWorking with ML optimization tools/libraries
- Experience working with or ingesting from ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow/JAX, or ONNX
- 2+ years of experience with C/C++ and 2+ years working with Python
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to write clear and concise technical documentation
- Knowledge of quantization, sparsity, or other model-level optimization techniques

## Preferred Skills and Experience

- Master's or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent
- Experience with StableHLO, XLA, or other ML-specific IRs
- Knowledge of operator semantics across ML frameworks and the challenges of cross-framework compatibility
- Familiarity with Python bindings and tooling for compiler front ends
- Experience with testing infrastructure for compiler correctness — fuzzing, differential testing, or model-level validation
- Contributions to open-source compiler or ML framework projects
- Familiarity with MLIR, including defining and working with custom dialects

## Why Join Lemurian Labs

- Build the entry point for an AI compiler that targets every major hardware platform
- Work at the boundary of ML frameworks and compiler infrastructure — a rare and high-leverage intersection
- Tackle deep correctness and coverage problems that directly impact what models can run and where
- Competitive compensation including equity, medical/dental/vision, retirement savings, and wellness benefits

Lemurian Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees, regardless of gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status, age, or background.

Compensation depends on experience and geographic location and will be narrowed during the interview process. Additional benefits include equity, company bonus opportunities, medical, dental, and vision coverage, a retirement savings plan, and supplemental wellness benefits.

## About Lemurian Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Lemurian Labs builds a hardware-agnostic AI software stack (Tachyon) that enables organizations to write AI workloads once and deploy them across any hardware—CPUs, GPUs, accelerators—with performance matching hand-tuned kernels, eliminating vendor lock-in and kernel rewrites.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Startup)
- **Headquarters**: Santa Clara, California, United States (with offices in Canada and India)
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Jay Dawani (CEO & Co-Founder), Dr. Vassil Dimitrov (Chief Scientist & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI Infrastructure / Software
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (AI teams at cloud providers, hardware vendors, and large-scale AI model developers)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: "We're building the hardware-agnostic software infrastructure that makes AI accessible to everyone—fast, affordable, and scalable. Not just better tools. The foundation for what comes next."

## Products & Services
- **Tachyon**: A complete software stack comprising five components:
  - **Tachyon DSL**: A Pythonic tensor language for expressing end-to-end AI pipelines.
  - **Hardware-Independent Concurrent IR**: Represents computation using parallel programming primitives that explicitly capture concurrency and data flow.
  - **Hardware-Parameterized Graph Optimizer**: Restructures computation to maximize data reuse, minimize data movement, and eliminate synchronization barriers based on detailed hardware characteristics.
  - **Portable Optimizing Code Generator**: Generates high-performance object code for any target hardware (NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, etc.) using hardware characteristics as parameters.
  - **Hierarchical Dynamic Runtime**: Explicitly manages data movement and orchestrates execution across clusters, adapting dynamically to changing runtime conditions.
- **Type**: Software (SaaS/Platform)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding of **$15.1M** across 6 rounds; Annual Revenue estimated at **$2.3M** (per LinkedIn data)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Oval Park Capital (led Seed Round), Silicon Catalyst (Non-Equity Assistance), ventureLAB (Non-Equity Assistance); team alumni from Sun Microsystems, Intel, NVIDIA, IBM, Huawei, Qualcomm, AMD, Uber, Google
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 34 employees (+11.1% YoY)
  - LinkedIn followers: 5,181 (+113.2% yearly growth)
  - Active job postings: 8 (+166.7% yearly growth)
  - Beta testing for Tachyon opens Summer 2027
  - Claims 60-80% reduction in serving costs from higher utilization

## Competitive Advantages
- **Hardware-Agnostic Performance**: Tachyon matches or exceeds hand-tuned kernel performance on any hardware without vendor lock-in—a direct solution to the fragmentation and cost problems plaguing AI infrastructure.
- **Accelerated Software Paradigm**: The company positions itself as leading a shift from "accelerated hardware" to "accelerated software," targeting the post-Moore's Law era.
- **Deep Technical Expertise**: Founders and team have decades of experience at top chip and systems companies (NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, Google, Uber, etc.), giving them unique insight into the weaknesses of current approaches.
- **Portability Without Compromise**: Claims to enable moving between clouds and hardware in hours, not months, and to support new accelerators in <90 days via a plug-in model.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current Priorities**: Completing Tachyon development and launching beta testing in Summer 2027; scaling the engineering team (especially compiler engineers, ML performance engineers, and runtime engineers); building developer community and product-market fit.
- **Direction for Growth**: Becoming the standard software layer for AI deployment across all hardware, enabling companies to focus on AI innovation rather than infrastructure battles.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture Highlights**: Values include "Relentless execution," "Fail fast, learn faster," "Extreme ownership," "Radical candor," and "Be a force multiplier." The team emphasizes moving quickly, testing aggressively, and iterating relentlessly.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office Policy**: Has 4 offices across 2 countries (Santa Clara HQ, Menlo Park, Santa Clara, and Oakville, Canada); LinkedIn data suggests presence in US (55%), Canada (28%), and India (2%). Likely hybrid or flexible given distributed team.
- **Notable Perks/Engineering Culture**: Employer rating of **4.7/5.0** (3 reviews) with Work-Life: 5.0, Compensation: 4.0, Culture: 4.7, Career: 4.7. The company is building a groundbreaking software stack from the ground up—ideal for engineers passionate about compilers, systems programming, and AI infrastructure. Team composition is 50% technical roles. Notable talent sources include Intel, Huawei Canada, Luminous Computing, and Untether AI.
- **Mission-Driven**: Explicitly focused on enabling AI to solve humanity's hardest problems (climate change, healthcare, education, scientific breakthroughs) by removing infrastructure barriers.

## Sources
1. [Lemurian Labs Website](https://www.lemurianlabs.com/)
2. [Lemurian Labs About Page](https://www.lemurianlabs.com/about)
3. [Lemurian Labs Technology Page](https://www.lemurianlabs.com/technology)
4. [Lemurian Labs Careers Page](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lemurianlabs)
5. [Lemurian Labs LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/lemurianlabs)

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