MatX
Software Engineer, AI Tooling
$160K–$600K
Mountain View · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 22, 2026
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- 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
Build and evaluate AI-agent tooling and workflows that improve agents’ effectiveness on hardware engineering tasks across RTL design, design verification, and physical design.
What you'll do
- Pair with RTL, DV, and PD engineers to identify and ship improvements to agent context, tools, and harnesses.
- Build tools for agent-generated code workflows, including tools that make large diffs easier to review.
- Replay historical repository bugs against agent configurations and use the results to guide tooling choices.
What they ask for
- RTL design, DV, or PD fluency, or ability to develop it quickly.
- Heavy use of coding agents and strong judgment about their permissions and verification.
- Experience building engineering workflows adopted and retained by other engineers.
- Ability to identify confidently incorrect agent outputs and improve their harnesses.
Nice to have
- Built tooling or automation for chip design flows.
- Familiarity with Bluespec or another high-level HDL, or with architecture and performance simulators.
Pay
USD $160,000 - $275,000 base salary; USD $175,000 - $450,000 base salary; USD $275,000 - $600,000 base salary
Tools
Rust, Python, Bluespec, SystemVerilog
AI focus
Develop agent harnesses, tools, and evaluation workflows that make coding agents more reliable and useful for hardware engineering.
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