Software Engineer - Kernels
MatX · Mountain View (HQ) or Remote
Infrastructureremotesenior$250k–$600k
At a glance
Highlights
- Design and optimize kernels that interface directly with custom hardware.
- Help build vertically integrated full-stack platform for AGI compute.
- Partner with ML Research and Hardware teams on seamless integration.
What they offer
- 4 weeks PTO + 12 company holidays + up to 3 weeks remote work
- Company-subsidized medical, dental, vision and life insurance with HSA/FSA
- 401K with 5% company contribution plus life, disability and travel insurance
- Onsite lunch & dinner, paid commute, $1500 development budget and $1000 home setup
- Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave, $6K Family Fund and mental health benefits
Ideal candidate
A systems-minded engineer with 10+ years of experience who loves low-level optimization and hardware-software co-design and thrives collaborating with researchers and hardware engineers to power large-scale ML.
Requirements
- Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent degree
- 10+ years of software development experience
- Experience optimizing software for specialized hardware using parallelism, SIMD, assembly-level or GPU/CUDA techniques
- Proficiency in at least one of assembly, C, C++, Zig or Rust
- remote policy
- Hybrid, in office Tuesday-Thursday with up to 3 weeks remote work
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
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