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"attribute grammar" and "novel" in the same statement? Whoa! I tried to publish a paper ~15 years ago on attribute grammars … without success and non-constructive review feedback. I am not aware of any company making use of attribute grammars in production. I had the goal of making use of attribute grammars as part of https://github.com/mozilla-spidermonkey/jsparagus (SmooshMonkey), but making a JavaScript parser generator which is as efficient as our hand-written parser is already surprisingly difficult, and the COVID ended the project.

On the topic of finding a job … I would be of no help. The only internships/jobs I found so far were all outside the usual applications forms:

* By emailing to the author of an R&D language that I was already using, asking if they could make a position for me in their lab.

* From a teacher recommending me in the start-up where he worked for building an interpreted language.

* By going to one of the Firefox 4 party, and giving a visit card after seeing a presentation about SpiderMonkey.

Then, if you are interested in applying for a job opening on compilers. There is one right now at Mozilla, on WebAssembly: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/position/gh/4437801/ … but there is no attribute grammar.