Bluespec Design Engineer (Haskell)

MatX; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity options

Health, Dental, and Vision insurance

Flexible Paid Time Off

401(k) with company contribution

Remote work reimbursement

Job summary

A leading technology company in Mountain View is seeking Haskell engineers to design high-performance silicon for GenAI applications. The role involves building production hardware and developing Bluespec libraries. Ideal candidates will have strong Haskell skills, and experience in Bluespec or hardware design is a plus. MatX offers competitive compensation, including equity, health benefits, and flexible work arrangements. We invite candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply, ensuring inclusivity in our hiring process.

Qualifications

• Proficient in Haskell and comfortable with advanced concepts.
• Strong engineering fundamentals and coding best practices.

Responsibilities

• Build production hardware for compute and memory management.
• Develop reusable, parameterized Bluespec libraries.
• Create innovative tooling for hardware/software ecosystem.

Skills

Haskell

Software Engineering Fundamentals

Version Control

Tools

Bluespec

Rust

Job description

What MatX Is Building

MatX is seeking engineers with strong Haskell skills to join our team as we create best‑in‑class silicon for high‑performance and sustainable GenAI. The successful candidate for this role will be responsible for delivering performant silicon RTL at the full‑chip or subsystem level. You will write hardware in Bluespec, a hardware description language rooted in Haskell's type system and semantics. If you've ever wished you could design hardware with the composability and correctness guarantees of a modern functional language, this is the role for you. You do not need prior hardware experience to apply — if you know Haskell, we will teach you the hardware side.

What You'll Do Here

• Build production hardware for compute, memory management, and high‑speed connectivity
• Develop reusable, parameterized Bluespec libraries that scale across the chip
• Shape hardware architecture by leveraging the power of Bluespec to explore implementation tradeoffs and converge on the best designs
• Create innovative tooling for our hardware/software ecosystem to help us build correct, high‑performance hardware faster

Who You Are

• Proficient in Haskell — you’re comfortable with monads, typeclasses, higher‑order functions, and do‑notation. You understand why return injects a value into a monadic context and what <– does in a do‑block
• Strongly willing to quickly ramp on Bluespec Haskell (BH)
• Strong engineering fundamentals — you write clean, well‑tested, well‑documented code and are comfortable with build systems, version control, and CI workflows

Bonus Points If You Have

• Existing experience with Bluespec.
• Prior hardware design experience — ASIC or FPGA. If you already understand clock domains, pipelining, state machines, synthesis, and timing closure, that’s a significant advantage.
• Production Rust experience. If you know Haskell, Rust is easy, but if you’ve already used it on something real, that’s a head start.

Bonus Points For

• Existing experience with Bluespec.
• Prior hardware design experience — ASIC or FPGA. If you already understand clock domains, pipelining, state machines, synthesis, and timing closure, that’s a significant advantage.
• Production Rust experience. If you know Haskell, Rust is easy, but if you’ve already used it on something real, that’s a head start.

Getting Started With Bluespec

• If you’re new to Bluespec, start here: Getting Started With Bluespec
• For a hands‑on introduction to the language, see Rishiyur Nikhil’s ICFP 2020 Bluespec Tutorial

Compensation

• 0‑5 years of experience – $120,000 – $200,000 + equity
• 5‑10 years of experience – $120,000 – $300,000 + equity
• 10+ years of experience – $120,000 – $400,000 + 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: 401(k) 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 applicant’s 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.