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Language Engineer

The language of the LogicBlox platform is a high level, logic programming language with a strong theoretical foundation rooted in the database community. The declarativeness of our language allows for aggressive analysis optimizations that fully take advantage of the LogicBlox runtime engine.

As a core member of the runtime team, you will:

• Contribute to the design of language features that supports our users in modular, reusable program construction
• Bring innovate ideas to developing high level abstractions for solving low level problems, such as distributed programming and parallel execution
• Design advanced features that supports bidirectional computing and tight integration with statistical methods that are key to enabling powerful data analytic applications
• Design and implement build systems that provide rapid feedback to programmers, and allows for the separate development and distribution of libraries
• Develop tools that supports user-analysis of programs, as well as source code optimization
• Own the testing and verification of components you develop
• Work with runtime engineers to develop language designs that best take advantage of the runtime for performance
• Understand domains of statistical analysis, optimization, and simulation; integrate ideas from other languages in these domain into the LogicBlox platform
• Build tools that support the understanding and debugging of programs
• Work with programmers to understand their problems, devise principled solutions that would support them

Qualifications

• Passion for high level languages
• Experience in language design and/or compiler construction
• Experience in program or query optimization techniques a plus