Rust Engineer at MatX
Mountain View, CA
$120,000–$475,000from the description
Jul 15, 2026
Mountain View, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Rust-focused engineering role at a chip startup building AI accelerator silicon, spanning infrastructure, simulation, runtime, tooling, and verification. Day-to-day work includes developing a Rust-based simulator, building host-side interface libraries, writing targeted and randomized tests, and collaborating across hardware and software teams to translate hardware specifications into testable properties. Suits engineers with production Rust experience and an interest in low-level systems and hardware.
Mid level · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 81,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 48,600–121,500
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The posting covers multiple sub-roles (Infrastructure, Performance, Runtime, Tooling/Testing, Verification) under a single listing, so the seniority band spans a wide range. The compensation tiers ('Early Career', 'Mid Career', 'Senior Career') confirm this is an open-level hire; the pool is sized at Mid as the central band, consistent with the caller's instruction not to over-call seniority.
Compensation is presented in three overlapping tiers ($120K–$250K / $175K–$362.5K / $250K–$475K). The min/max fields reflect the full range across all tiers; the actual offer depends on the level at which a candidate is placed.
The job description states the role is 'remote (with travel) or hybrid based in Mountain View' and requires in-office presence Tuesdays–Thursdays. However, per the caller's declaration, this is treated as fully remote with a national candidate pool and no metro is inferred.
Hardware experience (FPGAs, embedded, robotics, accelerators), formal methods/model checking, property-based testing (proptest, Kani), computer architecture knowledge, and ML framework familiarity all appear under 'Bonus Points' and are marked preferred.
Rust FFI is listed under 'Bonus Points' with a note that any cross-language boundary experience is acceptable; marked preferred accordingly.
No minimum degree is stated anywhere in the posting.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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