MatX is seeking System Software Engineer to join our team as we create best-in-class silicon for high-performance and sustainable GenAI. Successful candidates for these roles will be responsible for delivering performant and functionally accurate silicon for MatX products across compute, memory management. High-speed connectivity and other key technologies.
As an System Software Engineer reporting to our Systems Software Lead, you'll contribute to the System Software Team. You'll join a talented group of engineers helping us to create best-in-class silicon for high-performance and sustainable GenAI. As part of a small team, you'll help see your ideas come to life and see the impacts of your work.
What You'll Do Here- Work closely with the architecture teams, silicon design teams and other software/firmware teams to architect, design, and implement scalable and high-performance system software components, including device drivers in Linux, low-level libraries and daemons
- Deliver unit-tests for all software components being developed, including kernel level softwares
- CPU/memory subsystem optimization for the host system stack
- Write debug and performance monitoring utilities
- Performance profiling, look for opportunities to reduce operating system overheads
- Influence the design of next generations of accelerators, and the host system software stack
- Design system software components to improve system observability, improve resiliency
- Design and implement cluster management solutions and failover algorithms to minimize downtime
- Bring up and help debug issues during new chip bring-up in close collaboration with hardware engineers
- Productize system software stack across various CPU ISAs and operating system versions
Who You Are- BS or higher in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, with 8+ years of experience in the following areas
- Strong hands-on development experience in Linux, both in low-level userspace libraries as well as device drivers in the Linux kernel
- Ability to read hardware data sheets, register definitions etc. to program hardware devices
- Experience in user-facing software bring-up on new custom silicon
- Strong C programming skills
- In-depth knowledge of computer hardware and system architecture
- Good understanding of low-level operating systems interfaces - threads, process management, memory management etc
- Experience debugging issues related to complex hardware-software interaction
- 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
Bonus Points If You Have- Experience in hardware bring-up, simulation, and emulation environments
- Good understanding of system-level architecture, interrupts, memory mapped IO, direct memory access, computer systems interconnect, memory hierarchy etc
- Performance tuning and optimization in kernel drivers and modules, low-level libraries
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 - $160,000 - $275,000 + equity
- Mid Career - $175,000 - $400,000 + equity
- Senior Career - $250,000 - $600,000 + equity
What We Offer- Time off: 4 weeks PTO (accrued) + 12 company Holidays + up to 3 weeks remote work
- Health: Company-subsidized Medical (Kaiser or Anthem) for employees & dependents, Guardian Dental and Vision insurances for employee & dependents, and life insurance (employee only), plus HSA and FSA offerings via Lively.
- Financial Wellbeing: Choose from Roth IRA/ 401K (or both) retirement plans with up to 5% company contribution to 401K (even if you don't contribute). Also, 100% company-paid life insurance (up to $300K) and long-term disability insurances.
- Professional Development: $1500 Professional Development Budget (per year)
- Team Meals: MatX provides onsite team lunch & dinner Monday - Friday, with your choice of ordering via WeBox, Specialty's or via our reimbursement system
- Commute on Us: Commute on our company Uber account, or reimburse your train rides. Either way, we pay 100% for your daily commute.
- MatX E[x]tras: $50/mo to use on the perk you value most
- Cell & Internet Reimbursement: $35/mo for cellular and $40/mo for wifi
- Mental Wellbeing: 100% paid mental health benefit via SpringHealth and Guardian EAP.
- Support to Parents: Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave regardless of path to parenthood, 10 weeks pregnancy disability leave, flexible return-to-work hours, and Benepass reproductive health & parental benefit.
- AI Resources: Up to $20K/month plus a dedicated internal AI Tooling Team to support your productivity
