Rust Engineer

MatX•Mountain View, CA

7d•$120,000 - $475,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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<T, E> 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

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

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

Benefits

A flexible cash equity compensation mix that fits your needs
Company subsidized Health, Dental, Vision, and Life insurance
Pre-tax Health Savings Accounts with generous company contribution
4 weeks paid time off (accrued)
12 company holidays
3 weeks remote/flexible work per year
Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of your path to parenthood
$1,500 yearly towards your professional development e.g. conferences, courses, and other learning opportunities
Team Lunches, quarterly off-sites, and regular town halls
401K and/or Roth IRA, with 5% company contribution
Pre-tax spend accounts for medical, dental/vision, dependent care, parking, and transit expenses
On-site amenities (commute support)
$50 per month to use on the perks you care about most
Home-tech setup
Remote wifi expense reimbursement