Senior Kernel Engineer for ML Hardware & AGI Compute

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

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks PTO

12 company holidays

Up to 3 weeks remote work

Health insurance (employee + dependent

401K with company match

Life insurance

Professional development budget

Commuting reimbursement

Job summary

MatX is building a compute platform for AGI, focusing on full-stack solutions from silicon to systems and using Rust. The candidate will design and optimize kernels interfacing with hardware, and collaborate with ML research and hardware engineering teams in a hybrid Mountain View, CA role.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software development experience and deep knowledge of parallelism, SIMD, and low-level optimization in C/C++, Rust, or Zig, with a focus on hardware-aware software.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Experience optimizing software for specialized hardware (parallelism, SIMD, assembly, GPU/CUDA).
• Proficient in assembly, C/C++, Zig, or Rust.
• Hybrid role requiring three days/week in Mountain View, CA office (Tue-Thu).

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize kernels that interface directly with our hardware.
• Work in partnership with our ML Research and Hardware Engineering teams.
• Provide expertise on hardware architecture from a programmer’s perspective, ensuring seamless integration with the software stack.

Skills

Software development

Parallel programming

SIMD programming

C programming

C++ programming

Rust programming

Zig programming

GPU/CUDA programming

Hardware architecture knowledge

Education

Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent degree

Job description

MatX is building a compute platform for AGI, focusing on full-stack solutions from silicon to systems and using Rust. The candidate will design and optimize kernels interfacing with hardware, and collaborate with ML research and hardware engineering teams in a hybrid Mountain View, CA role.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software development experience and deep knowledge of parallelism, SIMD, and low-level optimization in C/C++, Rust, or Zig, with a focus on hardware-aware software.