Senior System Software Engineer for High-Performance Silicon

MatX Inc.; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

4 weeks PTO

12 company holidays

up to 3 weeks remote work

Health insurance

401K with company contribution

Life and disability insurance

Job summary

MatX is building next-generation silicon for high-performance GenAI. We seek a System Software Engineer to design and implement scalable Linux-based system software, including drivers, daemons, and libraries, across multiple CPU ISAs.

You will collaborate with architecture and hardware teams on bring-up and performance tuning, while ensuring observability and resiliency of the stack. You will join a small, high-impact team in Mountain View, CA, in a hybrid setup (3 days in office Tue-Thu).

Qualifications

• BS or higher in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science with 8+ years experience.
• Strong hands-on development in Linux, both in low-level userspace libraries as well as device drivers in the Linux kernel.
• Ability to read hardware data sheets, register definitions, etc. to program hardware devices.
• Experience in user-facing software bring-up on new custom silicon.
• Strong C programming skills.
• In-depth knowledge of computer hardware and system architecture.
• Good understanding of low-level operating systems interfaces - threads, process management, memory management, etc.
• Experience debugging issues related to complex hardware-software interaction.
• This is a hybrid role that will require you to work from our Mountain View, CA office 3 days a week on Tuesday through Thursday.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with architecture teams, silicon design teams and other software/firmware teams to architect, design, and implement scalable and high-performance system software components, including device drivers in Linux, low-level libraries and daemons
• Deliver unit-tests for all software components being developed, including kernel level softwares
• CPU/memory subsystem optimization for the host system stack
• Write debug and performance monitoring utilities
• Performance profiling, look for opportunities to reduce operating system overheads
• Influence the design of next generations of accelerators, and the host system software stack
• Design system software components to improve system observability, improve resiliency
• Design and implement cluster management solutions and failover algorithms to minimize downtime
• Bring up and help debug issues during new chip bring-up in close collaboration with hardware engineers
• Productize system software stack across various CPU ISAs and operating system versions

Skills

Linux kernel

C programming

Hardware bring-up

Kernel driver development

Performance profiling

System software design

OS internals

Debugging hardware-software

Hybrid work

Education

BS in Electrical Eng or CS

Job description

MatX is building next-generation silicon for high-performance GenAI. We seek a System Software Engineer to design and implement scalable Linux-based system software, including drivers, daemons, and libraries, across multiple CPU ISAs.

You will collaborate with architecture and hardware teams on bring-up and performance tuning, while ensuring observability and resiliency of the stack. You will join a small, high-impact team in Mountain View, CA, in a hybrid setup (3 days in office Tue-Thu).