MatX
Mechanical Engineering Lead - AI Rack Scale Systems
$160K–$600K
Mountain View (HQ) or Remote · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Aug 28, 2026
- Experience
- 15+ years.
- Visa sponsorship
- Employment is contingent on the applicant being able to perform job functions in compliance with U.S. export control laws without obtaining a license from U.S. export control authorities.
About the job
Leads mechanical design, thermal architecture, and production integration of MatX’s rack-scale AI compute platform.
What you'll do
- Own mechanical design and rack-level integration of compute trays, enclosures, and liquid-cooled systems from concept through production.
- Lead mechanical engineers and JDM/ODM partners on drawings, tolerance analysis, qualification, manufacturing, and test plans.
- Guide liquid-cooling qualification, reliability testing, standards compliance, and development of the mechanical/thermal team.
What they ask for
- 15+ years of mechanical engineering experience in server, data center, or AI compute hardware, including hands-on tray- and rack-level design.
- Experience leading rack-scale hardware design delivered to OCP Open Rack standards.
- Experience in volumetric, tolerance-stack, and FEA analysis; liquid-cooling integration; and DFMA across named manufacturing processes.
- Experience with sustainable manufacturing compliance, test fixtures and setups, and leading ODM/JDM assembly-line setup through EVT, DVT, PVT, and MP.
Nice to have
- Experience with high-power AI accelerator platforms or OCP ORV3/ORW platforms and contributions.
- Rack-scale direct-to-chip liquid cooling, high-volume manufacturing with Taiwan or China JDM/ODM partners, or RDHx integration.
Pay
$160,000 - $275,000 USD base salary; $175,000 - $400,000 USD base salary; $250,000 - $600,000 USD base salary
Tools
OCP, ORV3, ORW, DFMA, FEA, EVT, DVT, PVT
AI focus
Mechanical and thermal design and production integration of rack-scale AI compute infrastructure for large-scale LLM training and inference.
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