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.
• 3+ years of experience.
• 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.

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

• Time off: 4 weeks PTO (accrued) + 12 company Holidays + up to 3 weeks remote work.
• Health: Company-subsidized Medical (Kaiser or Anthem) for employees & dependents, Guardian Dental and Vision insurances for employee & dependents, and life insurance (employee only), plus HSA and FSA offerings via Lively.
• Financial Wellbeing: Choose from Roth IRA/ 401K (or both) retirement plans with up to 5% company contribution to 401K (even if you don't contribute).
• Professional Development: $1500 Professional Development Budget (per year).
• Team Meals: MatX provides onsite team lunch & dinner Monday - Friday.
• Commute on Us: Commute on our company Uber account, or reimburse your train rides.
• MatX E[x]tras: $50/mo to use on the perk you value most.
• Cell & Internet Reimbursement: $35/mo for cellular and $40/mo for wifi.
• Mental Wellbeing: 100% paid mental health benefit via SpringHealth and Guardian EAP.
• Support to Parents: Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave regardless of path to parenthood.
• AI Resources: Up to $20K/month plus a dedicated internal AI Tooling Team to support your productivity.