# AI Chip Architect at MatX

- Company: MatX
- What the company does: We make the best chips physically possible for the large model needs of frontier labs.
- Company website: https://matx.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Mountain View (HQ) or Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $120K to $275K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-23
- Apply by: 2026-11-07
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/matx/ee2db157-db65-46d4-895f-0bcc326a4f8f
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/matx-ai-chip-architect/

## About the role

Define the architecture for MatX’s AI compute subsystem, including ISA, connectivity, memories, and control.. Collaborate closely with Research, SW, and HW teams to ensure we architect just-right silicon for workloads, programmability, and PPA.

## What they're looking for

- 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

Tags: Architecture