AI Accelerator Silicon Architect

What MatX Is Building MatX designs hardware tailored for the world’s best AI models. Our hardware will make a given level of intelligence available 3-5 years sooner. We are developing vertically integrated full-stack solutions from silicon to systems including hardware and software to train and run the world’s largest models.

MatX is seeking an Architect to join our team as we create best-in-class silicon for high-performance and sustainable GenAI. The successful candidate for this role will be responsible for delivering performant silicon architecture at the full-chip or subsystem level. MatX is seeking an AI Accelerator Compute Architect to help define the compute architecture for our next-generation GenAI accelerators.

What You'Ll Do

Define the architecture for MatX’s AI compute subsystem, including ISA, connectivity, memories, and control..

Requirements

from AI use cases. Conduct analytical and empirical performance analysis. Collaborate closely with Research, SW, and HW teams to ensure we architect just-right silicon for workloads, programmability, and PPA.

Work through power, area, performance tradeoffs with stakeholders. Support test plan reviews, first-silicon bring-up, and post-silicon debug.

Who You Are

Strong background in computer architecture, especially AI accelerators, GPUs, TPUs, vector processors, SIMD, VLIW, or other parallel compute architectures. Experience translating workloads into hardware architecture. Solid microarchitecture fundamentals.

First-principles understanding of latency, throughput, utilization, and scalability. Familiarity with numeric formats, quantization, rounding, and precision/performance tradeoffs. Programming, code optimization, or kernel-level performance analysis experience.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Familiarity with performance-optimization techniques in large-scale transformer models is a plus. Work Location This is a hybrid role based in our Mountain View, CA office, with in-office work Tuesday through Thursday.

In exceptional cases, remote work arrangements may be considered.

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.

. Early Career - $120,000 - $275,000 + equity Mid Career - $175,000 - $450,000 + equity Senior Career - $275,000 - $600,000 + equity

What We Offer

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!

Perks

you care about most Remote

We work remotely Monday Friday, supported by home-tech setup, and remote wifi expense reimbursement 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