# Lead Software Engineer, Kernels 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
- Level: Senior
- Location: Mountain View
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $160K to $275K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-22
- Apply by: 2026-11-06
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/matx/251357c8-6176-4a12-bac4-2d85fcc87e24
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/matx-lead-software-engineer-kernels/

## About the role

Manage, mentor, and build a team of highly specialized kernel engineers and software developers Design and optimize kernels that interface directly with our hardware

## What they're looking for

- 2+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent degree
- Experience optimizing software for specialized hardware, employing techniques such as parallelism, SIMD programming, C, assembly-level optimization, or GPU/CUDA programming
- Language: at least one of assembly, C++, C, Zig, or Rust
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, manage escalations, and align stakeholders around infrastructure decisions

Tags: Software