MatX is developing frontier AI models to enhance ML workload efficiency. The Developer Augmentation Engineer will support architects by reducing their workload and improving workflows with AI, while also engaging in hands-on work to gain a deeper understanding of the company's hardware and software architecture.
Responsibilities
- Augment our architects
- Take their toil upon yourself
- Apply theory-of-mind and legwork to conserve architect time
- Annihilate the toil with tooling and AI agents
- Earn knowledge across the stack and trust across the team
- Transform the way we work by incorporating AI into our workflows
- Become a generalist: use the knowledge and trust you learned to solve problems across the company
- Our hardware architecture: spec, diagrams, rationale
- Rust simulator for our architecture
- RTL code of our behemoth-scale AI Acceleration ASIC
- Design Verification of this ASIC
- Infrastructure to enable all of the above
- High-level Python simulations for architectural features
- ML experiments for validating our approach to AI
- Writing RL environments to improve frontier-llm performance on hardware design tasks
Skills
- 0 - 2 years of experience with systems programming using Rust / Python / HDLs
- Linux experience is a must
- Non-coursework projects preferred; among HDLs, RTL experience preferred
- You are a strong communicator, with the ability to flex to various styles
- You have a 'Get Things Done' mentality
- You are genuinely interested in people and see the support of others as enabling people's best work for the success of the company
- You are able to context switch, shifting between tactical and big-picture
- You believe that kindness matters
- 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
- Experience optimizing hardware or software
- ML experience, especially with LLMs
- Infrastructure experience: Google Cloud Platform and Github
- Experience with CLI coding agents: incl. Codex / Claude Code / Gemini CLI
Benefits
- A Stake in our success. A cash/equity mix that fits your needs and option to do early exercise
- Health & 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
Company Overview
MatX is an AI semiconductor company that designs custom chips and hardware architectures to support large language models. It was founded in 2022, and is headquartered in Mountain View, California, USA, with a workforce of 11-50 employees. Its website is https://matx.com.