Job Description

What MatX Is Building

MatX's mission is to make the world’s best AI models run as efficiently as allowed by physics, bringing the world years ahead in AI quality and availability. MatX is seeking silicon verification engineers to join our team as we create best-in-class silicon for high-performance and sustainable GenAI. Successful candidates for these roles will be responsible for delivering performant and functionally accurate silicon for MatX products across compute, memory management. High-speed connectivity and other key technologies.

Your Place Here

As an AI Runtime System Software Engineer reporting to our Systems Software Lead, you'll contribute to the System Software Team. You'll join a talented group of engineers helping us to create best-in-class silicon for high-performance and sustainable GenAI. As part of a small team, you'll help see your ideas come to life and see the impacts of your work.

What You'll Do Here

• Work closely with the architecture teams, silicon design teams and other software/firmware teams to architect, design, and implement scalable and high-performance system software components, including device drivers in Linux, low-level libraries and daemons
• Deliver unit-tests for all software components being developed, including kernel level softwares
• Collaborate with ML and compiler teams to understand how to optimize the system software stack and optimize ML training and inference workloads
• CPU/memory subsystem optimization for the host system stack
• Optimize movement of ML data to and from the accelerator, job scheduling, synchronization etc
• Write debug and performance monitoring utilities
• Performance profiling, look for opportunities to reduce operating system overheads
• Influence the design of next generations of accelerators, and the host system software stack
• Design system software components to improve system observability, improve resiliency
• Design and implement cluster management solutions and failover algorithms to minimize downtime
• Bring up and help debug issues during new chip bring-up in close collaboration with hardware engineers
• Productize system software stack across various CPU ISAs and operating system versions

Who You Are

• BS or higher in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, with 8+ years of experience in the following areas
• Strong hands-on development experience in Linux, both in low-level userspace libraries as well as device drivers in the Linux kernel
• Ability to read hardware data sheets, register definitions etc. to program hardware devices
• Experience in user-facing software bring-up on new custom silicon
• Strong C programming skills
• In-depth knowledge of computer hardware and system architecture
• Good understanding of low-level operating systems interfaces - threads, process management, memory management etc
• Experience debugging issues related to complex hardware-software interaction
• This is a hybrid role that will require you to work from our Mountain View, CA office 3 days a week on Tuesday through Thursday

Bonus Points If You Have

• Experience in hardware bring-up, simulation and emulation environments
• Good understanding of system level architecture, interrupts, memory mapped IO, direct memory access, computer systems interconnect, memory hierarchy etc
• Performance tuning and optimization in kernel drivers and modules, low-level libraries

Compensation

The US base salary for this full-time position is determined based on a variety of factors including role, experience, location, job related skills, and relevant education and training. Career length is only a guideline for compensation.

• 0-5 years of experience - $120,000 - $200,000 + equity
• 5-10 years of experience - $120,000 -$300,000 + equity
• 10+ years experience - $120,000 - $400,000 + equity

What We Offer

• A Stake in our success A cash/equity mix that fits your needs and option to do early exercise
• Heath & Wellness Company subsidized Health, Dental, Vision, and Life insurance; Pre-tax Health Savings Accounts with generous company contribution (even if you don’t)
• Time To Recharge 4 weeks paid time off (accrued), 12 company holidays, and 3 weeks remote/flexible work per year
• Support to Parents Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of your path to parenthood
• Learning & Development $1,500 yearly towards your professional development e.g. conferences, courses, and other learning opportunities
• Team Connection Team Lunches, quarterly off-sites, and regular town halls
• Financial Wellbeing 401K and/or Roth IRA, with 5% company contribution, even if you don’t!
• Flexible Spending Accounts Pre-tax spend accounts for medical, dental/vision, dependent care, parking, and transit expenses
• Commute On Us For those commuting up to 1 hour, put your rideshare cost on our company card and reclaim the drive-time to get work done!
• MatX E[x]tras $50 per month to use on the perks you care about most
• Remote Perks We work remotely Monday & Friday, supported by home-tech setup, and remote wifi expense reimbursement

As part of our dedication to the diversity of our team and our focus on creating an inviting and inclusive work experience, MatX is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military and veteran status, genetic information or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.

All candidates must be authorized to work in the United States and work from our offices in Mountain View Tuesdays-Thursdays.

This position requires access to information that is subject to U.S. export controls. This offer of employment is contingent upon the applicants capacity to perform job functions in compliance with U.S. export control laws without obtaining a license from U.S. export control authorities.

MatX does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or People team and any resumes submitted are deemed to be the property of MatX.