Rust Engineer

**What MatX Is Building** MatX is seeking engineers with strong Rust skills to join our team as we create best-in-class silicon for high-performance and sustainable GenAI. We are looking for engineers to support work in these areas: Infrastructure, Performance, Runtime, Tooling/Testing, Verification. ## What You'll Do Here - Use your experience to expand upon and build new infrastructure and tooling to support hardware and/or software teams. - Design/implement our Rust based simulator - Build the host-side interface library - Write tests that systematically explore corner cases and rare event sequences — both targeted tests and tests that use randomization to find surprises - Work across hardware, architecture and software teams to turn specifications into concrete, testable properties ## Who You Are - Proficient in production Rust — you've shipped real systems. You're comfortable with ownership, traits, generics with bounds, and enums as sum types. You understand why `Result` is better than exceptions and what the borrow checker is actually protecting you from - Strong engineering fundamentals — you write clean, well-tested, well-documented code and are comfortable with build systems, version control, and CI workflows - Comfortable with low-level systems concepts: memory layout, concurrency, bit manipulation - Genuinely interested in hardware and willing to ramp quickly - This is a remote (with travel) or hybrid role based in Mountain View **Bonus Points If You Have** - Experience with hardware in any capacity — FPGA projects, embedded systems, robotics, or prior roles touching hardware engineering; Accelerators are a huge plus - Experience with foreign function interfaces — Rust FFI is ideal, but any experience crossing language boundaries is valuable - Formal methods, model checking, or property-based testing (e.g., proptest, Kani) - Understanding of computer architecture: pipelines, caches, memory hierarchies, on-chip interconnects - Familiarity with ML Systems/Frameworks **Compensation** The US base salary for this full-time position is determined based on a variety of factors including role, experience, location, job related skills, and relevant education and training. Career length is only a guideline for compensation. - Early Career - $120,000 - $250,000 + equity - Mid Career - $175,000 - $362,500 + equity - Senior Career - $250,000 - $475,000 + equity **What We Offer** - **A Stake in our success** A flexible cash equity compensation mix that fits your needs - **Health & Wellness** Company subsidized Health, Dental, Vision, and Life insurance; Pre-tax Health Savings Accounts with generous company contribution (even if you don’t) - **Time To Recharge** 4 weeks paid time off (accrued), 12 company holidays, and 3 weeks remote/flexible work per year - **Support to Parents** Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of your path to parenthood - **Learning & Development** $1,500 yearly towards your professional development e.g. conferences, courses, and other learning opportunities - **Team Connection** Team Lunches, quarterly off-sites, and regular town halls - **Financial Wellbeing** 401K and/or Roth IRA, with 5% company contribution, even if you don’t! - **Flexible Spending Accounts** Pre-tax spend accounts for medical, dental/vision, dependent care, parking, and transit expenses - **Commute On Us** For those commuting up to 1 hour, put your rideshare cost on our company card and reclaim the drive-time to get work done! - **MatX E[x]tras** $50 per month to use on the perks you care about most - **Remote Perks** We work remotely Monday & Friday, supported by home-tech setup, and remote wifi expense reimbursement *As part of our dedication to the diversity of our team and our focus on creating an inviting and inclusive work experience, MatX is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin…