Developer Augmentation Engineer
MatX is a company focused on advancing AI technology through efficient machine learning workloads. They are seeking a Developer Augmentation Engineer to assist architects, enhance workflows with AI, and engage in hands-on projects related to hardware architecture and machine learning experiments.
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
- Do object-level work: getting your hands wet helps you do meta-work even better
- 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
- 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
- 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
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