Software Engineer - Kernels

Posted 23 Days Ago
Mountain View, CA
Entry level
Artificial Intelligence • Hardware • Software
The Role
Design and optimize kernels, work with ML Research and Hardware Engineering teams, provide expertise on hardware architecture, implement kernels for ML models, use distributed parallelism techniques, and understand compiler operations.
Summary Generated by Built In

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 primarily use the Rust programming language.

Responsibilities include:

  • 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

Requirements:

  • 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

Preferences:

  • 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

Compensation

  • The US base salary for this full-time position is $120,000 - $400,000 + equity

Benefits

  • Commuter stipend available for employees within 60 minutes of the office
  • 401(k) with contribution matching
  • Health, vision, and dental insurance
  • Life and AD&D insurance

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 or ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military and veteran status, genetic information or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.

All candidates must be authorized to work in the United States and work from our offices in Mountain View Tuesdays-Thursdays.

This position requires access to information that is subject to U.S. export controls. This offer of employment is contingent upon the applicants capacity to perform job functions in compliance with U.S. export control laws without obtaining a license from U.S. export control authorities.

Top Skills

Assembly
C
Rust
Zig
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The Company
HQ: Mountain View, CA
19 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

MatX designs hardware tailored for the world’s best AI models: We dedicate every transistor to maximizing performance for large models. For these models, we deliver 10× more computing power, enabling AI labs to make models an order of magnitude smarter and more useful. Our hardware would make it possible to train GPT-4 and run ChatGPT, but on the budget of a small startup.

A world with more widely available intelligence is a happier and more prosperous world—picture people of all socioeconomic levels having access to an AI staff of specialist MDs, tutors, coaches, advisors, and assistants.

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