Lead Software Engineer, Kernels
About The Position
MatX is on a mission to be the compute platform for AGI. We are developing vertically integrated full-stack solutions from silicon to systems including hardware and software to train and run the largest ML workloads for AGI. We are seeking a hands-on engineering TLM to lead the Kernel team. You will manage, mentor, and grow a team of kernel engineers while setting technical direction and executing. At the same time, you will be an active coding contributor by designing and implementing high-performance compute kernels for specialized AI hardware. You will partner with the ML team to maximize output and improve diagnostic tools, and collaborate with hardware to co-design next-generation AI architectures.
Requirements
- 2+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- Bachelor of Computer Science or equivalent degree
- Experience optimizing software for specialized hardware, employing techniques such as parallelism, SIMD programming, C, assembly-level optimization, or GPU/CUDA programming
- Language: at least one of assembly, C++, C, Zig, or Rust
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, manage escalations, and align stakeholders around infrastructure decisions.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a track record of translating complex technical trade-offs with the founders and stakeholders
Nice To Haves
- Experience implementing kernels for ML models such as Transformers
- Experience using and implementing distributed parallelism techniques such as AllReduce, AllToAll, data parallelism, tensor parallelism.
- Familiarity with how compilers work
Responsibilities
- Manage, mentor, and build a team of highly specialized kernel engineers and software developers
- Design and optimize kernels that interface directly with our hardware
- Work in partnership with our ML Research and Hardware Engineering teams
- Provide expertise and guidance on hardware architecture from a programmer's perspective, ensuring seamless integration with the software stack
Benefits
- 4 weeks PTO (accrued)
- 12 company Holidays
- up to 3 weeks remote work
- Company-subsidized Medical (Kaiser or Anthem) for employees & dependents
- Guardian Dental and Vision insurances for employee & dependents
- life insurance (employee only)
- HSA and FSA offerings via Lively
- Roth IRA/ 401K (or both) retirement plans with up to 5% company contribution to 401K
- 100% company-paid life insurance (up to $300K)
- long-term disability insurances
- $1500 Professional Development Budget (per year)
- MatX provides onsite team lunch & dinner Monday - Friday
- Commute on our company Uber account, or reimburse your train rides. Either way, we pay 100% for your daily commute.
- $50/mo to use on the perk you value most
- $35/mo for cellular
- $40/mo for wifi
- 100% paid mental health benefit via SpringHealth and Guardian EAP.
- Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave regardless of path to parenthood
- 10 weeks pregnancy disability leave
- flexible return-to-work hours
- Benepass reproductive health & parental benefit.
- Up to $20K/month plus a dedicated internal AI Tooling Team to support your productivity
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
