Hardware Diagnostics Engineer — Remote, Equity

MatX Inc.; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks PTO (accrued)

Remote work up to 3 weeks

Health insurance

Life insurance

Job summary

MatX Inc. in Mountain View, CA, is hiring a Diagnostic Engineer to own the end-to-end diagnostics test suite for accelerator boards and racks. You will develop tools for AI chips, PCIe, HBM, power, and thermal, and define test coverage for manufacturing screening.

You will collaborate with JDM/ODM partners, build scalable test automation, and drive root-cause analysis across manufacturing and field failures. This role requires strong Linux skills and C/C++/Python expertise.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in systems diagnostics, hardware validation, or manufacturing test.
• Expert in Python and C/C++ for test automation and low-level device programming.
• Deep knowledge of PCIe, memory hierarchies, power management, and I/O.
• Proven experience managing test relationships with ODM/JDM or CM partners.
• Experienced building and scaling test automation frameworks from the ground up.
• Proficient with Linux system tools for hardware interrogation and fault analysis.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end diagnostics test suite for accelerator boards and racks.
• Develop diagnostic tools covering the AI chip, PCIe, HBM, power, and thermal.
• Define test coverage and pass/fail criteria for manufacturing screening.
• Enable JDM/ODM partners with documentation, tooling, and hands-on debug support.
• Support partners technically through NPI and production ramp phases.
• Triage and root-cause manufacturing test escapes and field failures.
• Build and maintain CI/CD infrastructure for the diagnostics software stack.
• Track quality metrics — yield, test coverage, defect density — and report out.

Skills

Diagnostics engineering

Python

C/C++

PCIe knowledge

Hardware validation

Linux tools

Test automation

ODM/JDM experience

CI/CD tooling

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

MatX Inc. in Mountain View, CA, is hiring a Diagnostic Engineer to own the end-to-end diagnostics test suite for accelerator boards and racks. You will develop tools for AI chips, PCIe, HBM, power, and thermal, and define test coverage for manufacturing screening.

You will collaborate with JDM/ODM partners, build scalable test automation, and drive root-cause analysis across manufacturing and field failures. This role requires strong Linux skills and C/C++/Python expertise.