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Staff Engineer, Compiler
Samsung Semiconductor INC · 🇺🇸 San Jose, California, United States
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 123 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 52 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Samsung Semiconductor INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles45 certified filings for “Staff Engineer” (Electronics Engineers, Except Computer) in CA: $157k–$186k, median $169k. Most were filed at wage level III (43%) — 3 lottery entries, ≈46% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Samsung Semiconductor INC
The US Department of Labor certified 123 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 52 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Please Note: To provide the best candidate experience amidst our high application volumes, each candidate is limited to 10 applications across all open jobs within a 6-month period. Advancing the World’s Technology Together Our technology solutions power the tools you use every day--including smartphones, electric vehicles, hyperscale data centers, IoT devices, and so much more. Here, you’ll have an opportunity to be part of a global leader whose innovative designs are pushing the boundaries of what’s possible and powering the future. We believe innovation and growth are driven by an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce. We’re dedicated to empowering people to be their true selves. Together, we’re building a better tomorrow for our employees, customers, partners, and communities. The AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) Computing Lab is dedicated to solving the complex system-level challenges posed by the growing demands of future AI/ML workloads. Our team is committed to designing and developing scalable platforms that can effectively handle the computational and memory requirements of these workloads while minimizing energy consumption and maximizing performance. To achieve this goal, we collaborate closely with both hardware and software engineers to identify and address the unique challenges posed by AI/ML workloads and to explore new computing abstractions that can provide a better balance between the hardware and software components of our systems. Additionally, we continuously conduct research and development in emerging technologies and trends across memory, computing, interconnect, and AI/ML, ensuring that our platforms are always equipped to handle the most demanding workloads of the future. By working together as a dedicated and passionate team, we aim to revolutionize the way AI/ML applications are deployed and executed, ultimately contributing to the advancement of AGI in an affordable and sustainable manner. Join us in our passion to shape the future of computing! Location: Daily onsite presence at our San Jose, CA office / U.S. headquarters in alignment with our Flexible Work policy. What You’ll Do • Adapting torch.compile to our backend: lowering Inductor's IR to our hardware, defining what gets fused, what gets specialized, and where the compiler should yield to hand-written kernels. • Building or extending kernel DSLs for our hardware: taking a tile-based programming model (Triton-style), a higher-level expression (Helion-style), or a custom DSL we design, and lowering it to our ISA, our memory hierarchy, and our collective primitives. Where existing DSLs' GPU assumptions break, deciding what to change in the frontend, the IR, or the backend. • Designing placement and scheduling passes: given a graph and our distributed memory model, deciding where tensors live, when to migrate them, and how to overlap compute with data movement. This is the layer where our hardware's differentiator shows up most directly. • Implementing parallelism-aware lowering: making tensor, pipeline, expert, and sequence parallelism first-class in the compiler IR rather than bolted on at the framework layer. • Fusion, tiling, and memory planning: the classical compiler problems, reframed for a non-uniform memory hierarchy where the right tile size and the right placement are coupled decisions. • Upstream contributions: where we use open-source DSLs, we want our work to land upstream rather than live in a private fork. You'll engage with upstream review processes for PyTorch, Triton, Helion, and adjacent projects. What You Bring • Bachelor’s with 10+ years, or Master’s with 8+ years, or PhD's with 5+ years of industry experience. • 3-5+ years of industry experience in at least one of: Triton, Helion, MLIR, XLA, TVM, Ind