Rust Engineer

MatX

$120K — $475K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proficient in production Rust with hands-on experience delivering systems.
  • Strong engineering fundamentals with a focus on clean and well-documented code.
  • Comfortable with low-level systems concepts including memory layout and concurrency.
  • Genuinely interested in hardware and willing to learn quickly.
  • Ability to collaborate across hardware and software teams.

Responsibilities

  • Expand and build new infrastructure and tooling for hardware/software teams.
  • Design and implement a Rust-based simulator.
  • Develop the host-side interface library.
  • Create systematic tests to explore edge cases and rare events.
  • Collaborate with teams to convert specifications into concrete properties.

Benefits

  • Flexible equity compensation mix.
  • Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • 4 weeks paid time off and 12 company holidays.
  • Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • $1,500 yearly for professional development.
  • 401K with a 5% company contribution.
  • Rideshare reimbursement for commuting up to 1 hour.
  • Monthly allowance for personalized perks.
  • Home tech setup and wifi expense reimbursement for remote work.
Full Job Description
What You'll Do Here
  • Use your experience to expand upon and build new infrastructure and tooling to support hardware and/or software teams.
  • Design/implement our Rust based simulator
  • Build the host-side interface library
  • Write tests that systematically explore corner cases and rare event sequences - both targeted tests and tests that use randomization to find surprises
  • Work across hardware, architecture and software teams to turn specifications into concrete, testable properties
Who You Are
  • Proficient in production Rust - you've shipped real systems. You're comfortable with ownership, traits, generics with bounds, and enums as sum types. You understand why Result is better than exceptions and what the borrow checker is actually protecting you from
  • Strong engineering fundamentals - you write clean, well-tested, well-documented code and are comfortable with build systems, version control, and CI workflows
  • Comfortable with low-level systems concepts: memory layout, concurrency, bit manipulation
  • Genuinely interested in hardware and willing to ramp quickly
  • This is a remote (with travel) or hybrid role based in Mountain View

Bonus Points If You Have
  • Experience with hardware in any capacity - FPGA projects, embedded systems, robotics, or prior roles touching hardware engineering; Accelerators are a huge plus
  • Experience with foreign function interfaces - Rust FFI is ideal, but any experience crossing language boundaries is valuable
  • Formal methods, model checking, or property-based testing (e.g., proptest, Kani)
  • Understanding of computer architecture: pipelines, caches, memory hierarchies, on-chip interconnects
  • Familiarity with ML Systems/Frameworks

Compensation

The 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 - $250,000 + equity
  • Mid Career - $175,000 - $362,500 + equity
  • Senior Career - $250,000 - $475,000 + equity

What We Offer
  • A Stake in our success A flexible cash equity compensation mix that fits your needs
  • 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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