MatX is seeking an Architect to join our team as we create best-in-class silicon for high-performance and sustainable GenAI. The successful candidate for this role will be responsible for delivering performant silicon architecture at the full-chip or subsystem level.
MatX is seeking an AI Accelerator Compute Architect to help define the compute architecture for our next-generation GenAI accelerators.
What You'll Do- Define the architecture for MatX's AI compute subsystem, including ISA, connectivity, memories, and control..
- Derive architectural requirements from AI use cases.
- Conduct analytical and empirical performance analysis.
- Collaborate closely with Research, SW, and HW teams to ensure we architect just-right silicon for workloads, programmability, and PPA.
- Work through power, area, performance tradeoffs with stakeholders.
- Support test plan reviews, first-silicon bring-up, and post-silicon debug.
Who You Are- Strong background in computer architecture, especially AI accelerators, GPUs, TPUs, vector processors, SIMD, VLIW, or other parallel compute architectures.
- Experience translating workloads into hardware architecture.
- Solid microarchitecture fundamentals.
- First-principles understanding of latency, throughput, utilization, and scalability.
- Familiarity with numeric formats, quantization, rounding, and precision/performance tradeoffs.
- Programming, code optimization, or kernel-level performance analysis experience.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Familiarity with performance-optimization techniques in large-scale transformer models is a plus.
Work LocationThis is a hybrid role based in our Mountain View, CA office, with in-office work Tuesday through Thursday. In exceptional cases, remote work arrangements may be considered.
CompensationThe 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.
- Early Career - $120,000 - $275,000 + equity
- Mid Career - $175,000 - $450,000 + equity
- Senior Career - $275,000 - $600,000 + equity
What We Offer- 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
