The Audio Programmer
C++ Backend Optimization Engineer
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Job Description
This is a remote position.
C++ Backend Optimization Engineer
Audio AI / Music Technology
Remote working from anywhere
Join an international team of R&D Engineers working on one of the most exciting and popular music production tools on the market.
This is an ideal role for an experienced Backend Engineer who is looking for more freedom and responsibility, and likes to work with a team who Get Things Done. It's a great time to join the company as they continue to grow and release more innovative software for producers and songwriters.
As a Backend Optimization Engineer, you'll be responsible for developing highly efficient computation kernels and client-side infrastructure to accelerate the neural network inference / DSP pipeline, already renowned for its extreme efficiency.
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Remote working from anywhere, collaborating with an international team of engineers and music lovers.
Requirements
Essential:
- Strong skills in Modern C++ (C++17/20/23)
- Experience with memory management, concurrency, and performance optimization techniques
- Understanding of compiler design principles, including Abstract Syntax Trees (AST), intermediate representations (IR) and optimization passes
- Familiar with computational graph optimization and execution strategies within AI inference engines
- Understanding of basic performance profiling and tuning methodologies (analysing cache misses, memory bandwidth, thread contention)
- Able to design clean, extensible architectures for new framework features
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Bonus Points For
- 3+ years of professional or strong academic/open-source experience related to AI compilers (TVM, MLIR, XLA) or open-source AI inference engines
- Experience with concurrency libraries (oneTBB or OpenMP)
- Experience with GPU programming using Vulkan, Metal, CUDA, SYCL, or OpenCL
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