Tooling Engineer: AI Compute & Research Tools

MATS Research; Berkeley (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Catered meals at office

Paid staff trips and conferences

Professional development funding

17 days annual PTO

Hybrid work option

Comprehensive health insurance

Job summary

MATS Research seeks a Tooling Engineer to build internal tooling and infrastructure that makes compute access, provisioning, budgets, and usage easier for researchers. You will contribute to GPU clusters, cloud platforms, and research tooling while collaborating with the Compute team and security to deliver scalable, maintainable solutions.

The role emphasizes owner- ship over what is built, with a preference for extending existing tools and shipping practical, user-centered software for

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Python and ability to work across a web stack.
• Experience integrating with third-party APIs and building automations or data pipelines.
• Comfort working directly with users, gathering requirements and shipping iteratively.
• Familiarity with AI coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) as part of software workflows.
• Clear written communication and documentation of builds.
• High agency and ability to scope ambiguous problems into usable solutions.
• Alignment with mission to reduce AI risk.

Responsibilities

• Build tools and automation around compute access, provisioning, budgets, usage, and requests.
• Work with fellows and the Compute team to understand workflows and turn recurring problems into reusable tools.
• Create unified compute tooling across GPU, API, and cloud providers; extend or adopt existing tools.
• Contribute to cluster and cloud infrastructure for cost controls and observability.
• Collaborate with security to address security and access requirements.
• Develop reliable pipelines and interfaces around compute usage and spend with quality data.

Skills

Python

Web stack experience

APIs integration

User collaboration

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Job description

MATS Research seeks a Tooling Engineer to build internal tooling and infrastructure that makes compute access, provisioning, budgets, and usage easier for researchers. You will contribute to GPU clusters, cloud platforms, and research tooling while collaborating with the Compute team and security to deliver scalable, maintainable solutions.

The role emphasizes owner- ship over what is built, with a preference for extending existing tools and shipping practical, user-centered software for