Senior System Software Engineer - AI Compute & Management

MatX Inc.; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 600,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Time off

Health insurance

Financial wellbeing

Professional development budget

Team meals

Commuter benefits

MatX extras

Cell and internet reimbursement

Mental health benefits

Parental leave

AI resources

Job summary

MatX Inc. is seeking a System Software Engineer to help build silicon for high-performance GenAI. You will work on Linux kernel drivers, on-node management, and BMC/OpenBMC integration, spanning from low-level drivers to cluster management.

The role requires 8+ years in systems software, strong C and a systems language (Go/Rust/C++/Python), and deep Linux experience. Mountain View, CA-based, with equity and extensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 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)

Responsibilities

• 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
• Build the management CLI utilities that operators and internal engineers use daily — interacting with the on-node management and telemetry daemons to query state, run diagnostics, update firmware, and recover devices
• Partner with our BMC firmware engineers to present unified management and observability across in-band and out-of-band paths — so operators see one coherent node, whether data comes from the host daemons or the BMC (e.g., unified Redfish-style views, firmware update orchestration across host and BMC, and recovery flows that work even when the host is down)
• Extend node-level capabilities to cluster level: fleet-wide health aggregation, device inventory, alerting hooks, and integration points for our customers' own fleet-management systems
• Get hands-on with the low-level stack: you'll regularly need to drop below the API layer — into the telemetry daemon, driver interfaces, or raw device access utilities — to prototype, debug, or unblock yourself
• Build tooling and automation for managing lab systems during bring-up: provisioning, test orchestration, regression monitoring
• Define the software contracts between the on-node daemons, the BMC stack, and the management layer — shared-ownership boundaries you'll co-design
• Debug production-grade issues spanning management APIs, daemons, kernel drivers, BMC firmware, and hardware
• Help shape what "manageable at scale" means for a new hardware platform, from single node to full rack to cluster

Job description

MatX Inc. is seeking a System Software Engineer to help build silicon for high-performance GenAI. You will work on Linux kernel drivers, on-node management, and BMC/OpenBMC integration, spanning from low-level drivers to cluster management.

The role requires 8+ years in systems software, strong C and a systems language (Go/Rust/C++/Python), and deep Linux experience. Mountain View, CA-based, with equity and extensive benefits.