Infrastructure Engineer

MatX•Mountain View, CA

2d•$200,000 - $300,000•Hybrid

About The Position

MatX is designing a custom chip. Our engineering team works in Rust and SystemVerilog, builds with a hermetic build system, and runs compute-intensive verification workloads on a managed cluster. The infrastructure that supports this work — CI/CD, compute fleet, shared filesystems, developer environments — is what you'd own. This is a small team. There's no ops org, no ticket queue, no on-call rotation. You'd work directly with engineers who'll tell you "X is broken" or "we need Y" and you'd figure out how to make it happen. You'd use the same tools they do — git, SSH, the same VMs. The current infrastructure was built by engineers who needed it and moved on to other things; you'd inherit it, clean it up, and make it yours and improve it. We use AI-assisted development tools extensively as a force multiplier. You should be comfortable with that or willing to learn.

Requirements

Deep Linux systems knowledge — you can debug from userspace down to syscalls and routing tables
Infrastructure-as-code experience on a major cloud provider (we use GCP, therefore GCP is preferred)
Comfort with networking fundamentals: VPCs, subnets, DNS, firewalls, shared filesystems, SSH tunneling
Experience managing HPC job schedulers or similar batch compute systems
Git proficiency — you'll interact with the same repos and PR workflows as the engineering team
Hands-on proficiency with core networking and security concepts that influence infrastructure integrity
Willingness to read code you didn't write to understand what infrastructure it needs
You don’t need to be a software engineer - but you should be able to read a build rule, a Rust error message, or a CI workflow and figure out what went wrong

Nice To Haves

EDA/semiconductor tool chain familiarity (Synopsys, Cadence)
Rust or Python scripting (for tooling, not product code)
Experience with OS-level fleet management (policies, images, package distribution)
You don’t need to write RTL or understand hardware architect but this is a plus

Responsibilities

Manage an HPC-style compute cluster on GCP — job scheduling, autoscaling, node provisioning
Provision and maintain developer VMs with consistent tooling, shared storage mounts, and remote desktop access
Manage shared network storage for home directories, CAD tools, and IP libraries
Maintain self-hosted CI runner fleet on GCP (registration, scaling, image management)
Own the remote build and caching infrastructure
Debug CI failures that turn out to be infrastructure, not code — runner registration races, mount timing, network conflicts
Keep the tool stack working: build system, EDA tools on shared storage, license servers, automounted shares
Onboard new engineers onto the development environment
Solve the kind of problems that start with "my build is slow" and end with tracing a metadata server timeout to a missing link-local route
All infrastructure is codified and version-controlled. You'd maintain and extend modules for VMs, networking, fleet policies, IAM, DNS
Execute migrations: subnet changes, fleet resizing, blue/green cutovers
Review your own plans carefully — a bad apply can take down the shared filesystem

Benefits

A Stake in our success A cash/equity mix that fits your needs, and option to do early exercise
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