Job Description
What MatX Is Building
MatX is designing a custom chip. Our engineering team works in Rust and SystemVerilog, builds with a hermetic build system, and runs compute-intensive verification workloads on a managed cluster. The infrastructure that supports this work — CI/CD, compute fleet, shared filesystems, developer environments — is what you’d own.
This is a small team. There’s no ops org, no ticket queue, no on-call rotation. You’d work directly with engineers who’ll tell you “X is broken” or “we need Y” and you’d figure out how to make it happen. You’d use the same tools they do — git, SSH, the same VMs. The current infrastructure was built by engineers who needed it and moved on to other things; you’d inherit it, clean it up, and make it yours and improve it.
We use AI-assisted development tools extensively as a force multiplier. You should be comfortable with that or willing to learn.
What You’ll Do Here
You’d be the person who makes sure 20+ engineers are set up for success to do their work without thinking about infrastructure. Concretely:
Compute & Cluster, Storage Management
- Manage an HPC-style compute cluster on GCP — job scheduling, autoscaling, node provisioning
- Provision and maintain developer VMs with consistent tooling, shared storage mounts, and remote desktop access
- Manage shared network storage for home directories, CAD tools, and IP libraries
CI/CD
- Maintain self-hosted CI runner fleet on GCP (registration, scaling, image management)
- Own the remote build and caching infrastructure
- Debug CI failures that turn out to be infrastructure, not code — runner registration races, mount timing, network conflicts
Developer Environment
- Keep the tool stack working: build system, EDA tools on shared storage, license servers, automounted shares
- Onboard new engineers onto the development environment
- Solve the kind of problems that start with “my build is slow” and end with tracing a metadata server timeout to a missing link-local route
Infrastructure as Code
- All infrastructure is codified and version-controlled. You’d maintain and extend modules for VMs, networking, fleet policies, IAM, DNS
- Execute migrations: subnet changes, fleet resizing, blue/green cutovers
- Review your own plans carefully — a bad apply can take down the shared filesystem
Who You Are
- Deep Linux systems knowledge — you can debug from userspace down to syscalls and routing tables
- Infrastructure-as-code experience on a major cloud provider (we use GCP, therefore GCP is preferred)
- Comfort with networking fundamentals: VPCs, subnets, DNS, firewalls, shared filesystems, SSH tunneling
- Experience managing HPC job schedulers or similar batch compute systems
- Git proficiency — you’ll interact with the same repos and PR workflows as the engineering team
- Hands-on proficiency with core networking and security concepts that influence infrastructure integrity
- Willingness to read code you didn’t write to understand what infrastructure it needs
- You don’t need to be a software engineer - but you should be able to read a build rule, a Rust error message, or a CI workflow and figure out what went wrong
- 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
- EDA/semiconductor tool chain familiarity (Synopsys, Cadence)
- Rust or Python scripting (for tooling, not product code)
- Experience with OS-level fleet management (policies, images, package distribution)
- You don’t need to write RTL or understand hardware architect but this is a plus
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.
- $200,000 - $300,000 + 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
As part of our dedication to the diversity of our team and our focus on creating an inviting and inclusive work experience, MatX is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military and veteran status, genetic information or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.
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. This offer of employment is contingent upon the applicants capacity to perform job functions in compliance with U.S. export control laws without obtaining a license from U.S. export control authorities.
MatX does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or People team and any resumes submitted are deemed to be the property of MatX.
