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MatX

Software Engineer, AI Tooling

MatX

. Pair with RTL, DV, and PD engineers to observe coding-agent failures and identify and ship context, tool, or harness improvements .

Posted 10/9/2026full-timeMountain View • California • United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $160,000 - $600,000 per yearWebsite

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Demonstrates fluency in RTL Design, Design Verification (DV), and Physical Design (PD), with a strong ability to build and improve engineering workflows and tooling for coding agents. Capable of ensuring compliance with U.S. export control laws while effectively collaborating with hardware engineers.

Highest-signal resume keywords
RTL Design FluencyDesign Verification (DV)Physical Design (PD)Engineering Workflow AutomationU.S. Export-Control Eligibility

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Hard Skills
Coding Agent ManagementTooling DevelopmentFlow AutomationReview ToolingBluespec HDLArchitecture SimulatorsPerformance Simulators
Soft Skills
Strong JudgmentCollaboration
Industry Keywords
U.S. Export Control LawsChip Design Flows

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Pair with RTL, DV, and PD engineers to observe coding-agent failures and identify and ship context, tool, or harness improvements
  • Build tools for agent-generated coding workflows, such as tools that break large diffs into reviewable pieces
  • Build the AI tooling evaluation loop by extracting bugs from repository history and replaying them against different agent configurations
  • Use evaluation results to decide which agent configurations and tooling improvements to adopt
  • Work side-by-side with hardware engineers and learn how RTL design, DV, and PD operate at MatX
  • Codify existing effective practices and build missing workflows across the hardware/software stack

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • RTL design, design verification (DV), or physical design (PD) fluency, or ability to build it quickly
  • Willingness and ability to work on RTL, DV, and PD problems daily
  • Heavy use of coding agents and strong judgment about their permissions and verification
  • Experience building engineering workflows that other engineers adopted and kept, including methodology, flow automation, review tooling, or agent harnesses
  • Ability to identify when LLM agents confidently produce incorrect results and modify their harness in response
  • Ability to perform job functions in compliance with U.S. export control laws without obtaining a license from U.S. export control authorities
  • U.S. export-control eligibility as applicable to access restricted information
  • Familiarity with Bluespec or another high-level HDL, or architecture and performance simulators (bonus)
  • Experience building tooling or automation for chip design flows (bonus)

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • 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
  • HSA and FSA offerings via Lively
  • Roth or pre-tax 401K with a 5% company contribution
  • 100% company-paid life insurance (up to $300K)
  • Long-term disability and travel insurance
  • $1500 per year Professional Development Budget
  • Onsite team lunch & dinner Monday - Friday
  • 100% paid daily commute via company rideshare, public transportation reimbursement, or Fasttrak card
  • $50/mo MatX Extras perk allowance
  • $35/mo cellular reimbursement
  • $40/mo wifi reimbursement
  • Up to $1000 for remote office setup purchases
  • 100% paid mental health benefit via SpringHealth and Guardian EAP
  • Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave
  • 10 weeks pregnancy disability leave
  • Flexible return-to-work hours
  • $6K Family Fund for fertility, surrogacy, adoption, menopausal health, preservation, family counseling and more
  • Equity