C++ Backend Optimization Engineer

The Audio Programmer

C++ Backend Optimization Engineer developing efficient computation kernels for popular music production tools. Collaborating with an international team on audio AI and music technology.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeRemote • 🌎 Anywhere in the WorldMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

C++

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Developing highly efficient computation kernels and client-side infrastructure to accelerate the neural network inference / DSP pipeline
Working with an international team of R&D Engineers
Contributing to one of the most exciting and popular music production tools on the market
Having direct influence on systems, product, and architecture

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong skills in Modern C++ (C++17/20/23)
Experience with memory management, concurrency, and performance optimisation techniques
Understanding of compiler design principles, including Abstract Syntax Trees (AST), intermediate representations (IR) and optimisation 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
3+ years of professional or strong academic/open-source experience related to AI compilers (TVM, MLIR, XLA) or open-source AI inference engines (bonus)
Experience with concurrency libraries (oneTBB or OpenMP) (bonus)
Experience with GPU programming using Vulkan, Metal, CUDA, SYCL, or OpenCL (bonus)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Remote working from anywhere
Collaborating with an international team of engineers and music lovers

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Hard Skills & Tools

Modern C++C++17C++20C++23memory managementconcurrencyperformance optimisationcompiler design principlescomputational graph optimizationperformance profiling