We make the best chips physically possible for the large model needs of frontier labs.
About the role
Design and build the node-level management plane for MatX's AI systems: expose node health, inventory, telemetry, and control operations through HTTP/REST endpoints (e.g., Redfish-style or custom APIs) Design and implement cluster management solutions and failover algorithms to minimize downtime
What they're looking for
- BS or higher in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience, with 8+ years in systems software — this is not a pure web-services role, deep low-level systems experience is required
- Strong hands-on Linux systems development experience, including low-level userspace software, comfortable reading and debugging kernel driver and daemon code
- Strong programming skills in C plus a systems language suited to services and tooling (Go, Rust, C++, and/or Python)
- Experience designing and building HTTP/REST APIs and CLI tools for hardware or infrastructure management
- Solid understanding of how the pieces underneath your APIs actually work — device drivers, telemetry paths, PCIe device behavior, BMC-managed subsystems — and the instinct to go look when something misbehaves
- Experienced debugging across API, daemon, kernel, firmware, and hardware boundaries
More about this role
MatX's mission is to make the world’s best AI models run as efficiently as allowed by physics, bringing the world years ahead in AI quality and availability. 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.
The MatX host system software team owns everything that makes our AI silicon and systems usable: from Linux kernel drivers up through node and cluster management. The team also co-owns the BMC/OpenBMC firmware stack, with dedicated firmware engineers, so host software and out-of-band management are designed together rather than bolted together. We're looking for self-driven engineers who can take a hardware spec and a register map and just start building — prototype drivers, low-level utilities that talk directly to the chip, daemons, and tooling — with minimal hand-holding. Each engineer on this team has a primary focus area, but ownership of overlapping components is...
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