MatX
Methodology Engineer (Silicon)
$160K–$600K
Mountain View (HQ) or Remote · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Experience
- At least one tapeout; no number of years specified.
- Visa sponsorship
- Employment is contingent on being able to perform the job in compliance with U.S. export control laws without obtaining a license from U.S. export control authorities.
About the job
Build and maintain automation that enforces chip-design methodology, tracks signoff evidence, manages exceptions, and improves shared verification workflows.
What you'll do
- Develop linters, static checks, schema-driven records, and shared verification libraries and flows.
- Automate signoff dashboards and reports, and tooling to manage exceptions and waivers.
- Apply methodology rules to AI-generated work and improve checks based on escaped bugs, false alarms, and process costs.
What they ask for
- Production Python skills and comfort with a second language such as Rust; experience building tools engineers depend on.
- Experience with GitHub Actions or similar CI and Bazel or another large-repository build system.
- Silicon-team experience through at least one tapeout, with understanding of lint, clock domain crossing checks, coverage, waivers, and ECOs.
- Good judgment about useful process rules and ability to explain them clearly in writing.
Nice to have
- Experience with formal verification, SystemVerilog Assertions, or DV methodology; commercial lint, clock domain crossing, or formal tools.
- Experience with traceable evidence processes, CI dashboards or data pipelines, AI coding agents, or Bluespec or another high-level hardware description language.
Pay
$160,000 - $275,000 USD base salary; $175,000 - $400,000 USD base salary; $250,000 - $600,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, Rust, GitHub Actions, Bazel, SystemVerilog Assertions, Bluespec
AI focus
Apply methodology review and evidence rules to AI-agent-produced work, and work with the AI tooling team on enforcing checks.
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