Mechanical Engineering Lead - AI Rack Scale Systems
MatX · Mountain View (HQ) or Remote
CHECKED 9H AGO
Infrastructureremotelead$250k–$600k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own mechanical design of rack-scale AI platform from concept through production.
- Lead liquid cooling design and qualification for high-power AI racks at scale.
- Build next-gen AI compute infrastructure for large-scale LLM training and inference.
What they offer
- 4 weeks accrued PTO
- Friday lunch via WeBox, Specialty's or reimbursement
- 100% paid daily commute via company Uber or train
- $50/mo flexible perk allowance
- $35/mo cell and $40/mo wifi reimbursement
- Up to $1000 home office setup
- 100% paid mental health benefit via SpringHealth and Guardian EAP
- Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave and pregnancy disability leave
Ideal candidate
Seasoned mechanical leader with deep data-center hardware background who thrives owning complex systems end-to-end. Hands-on builder passionate about liquid-cooled AI infrastructure, mentoring teams, and shipping robust products with partners.
Requirements
- 15+ years of mechanical engineering experience in server, data center, or AI compute hardware, with hands-on experience designing mechanical components, sub-assemblies, and assemblies at the tray and rack level
- Experience leading mechanical teams to design rack-scale hardware: compute trays, rack enclosures, or server platforms delivered to OCP Open Rack standards
- Experience in volumetric analysis, stack tolerance analysis, and FEA analysis
- Experience integrating liquid cooling systems (cold plates, manifolds, CDU interfaces) into the whole architecture
- Experience generating DFMA with sheet metal, extrusion, casting, and machining manufacturing processes
- Experience in sustainable manufacturing compliance, and design of fixtures and test setups for multiple applications (in-process testing, reliability testing, functional testing)
- Experience leading the ODM/JDM in setting up an assembly line through EVT, DVT, PVT, and MP phases
Lab profile
About MatX
Designs vertically integrated AI silicon and systems to run frontier models at physics-limit efficiency.
What they build
- AI accelerator silicon for GenAI training and inference
- Rack-scale AI data center systems
- Full-stack silicon-to-software platform for large ML workloads
Known for
- Vertically integrated silicon-to-systems design
- AI accelerator architecture and performance modeling for LLMs
- High-efficiency power architecture from chip to rack
- Silicon verification and software-hardware co-verification