Bluespec Design Engineer (Haskell)
What MatX Is Building
MatX is seeking engineers with strong Haskell skills to join our team as we create best-in-class silicon for high-performance and sustainable GenAI. The successful candidate for this role will be responsible for delivering performant silicon RTL at the full-chip or subsystem level.
You will write hardware in Bluespec, a hardware description language rooted in Haskell's type system and semantics. If you've ever wished you could design hardware with the composability and correctness guarantees of a modern functional language, this is the role for you. You do not need prior hardware experience to apply — if you know Haskell, we will teach you the hardware side.
What You'll Do Here
Build production hardware for compute, memory management, and high-speed connectivity
Develop reusable, parameterized Bluespec libraries that scale across the chip
Shape hardware architecture by leveraging the power of Bluespec to explore implementation tradeoffs and converge on the best designs
Create innovative tooling for our hardware/software ecosystem to help us build correct, high-performance hardware faster
Who You Are
Proficient in Haskell — you're comfortable with monads, typeclasses, higher-order functions, and do-notation. You understand why return injects a value into a monadic context and what <- does in a do-block
Strongly willing to quickly ramp on Bluespec Haskell (BH)
Strong engineering fundamentals — you write clean, well-tested, well-documented code and are comfortable with build systems, version control, and CI workflows
Bonus Points If You Have
Existing experience with Bluespec.
Prior hardware design experience — ASIC or FPGA. If you already understand clock domains, pipelining, state machines, synthesis, and timing closure, that's a significant advantage.
Production Rust experience. If you know Haskell, Rust is easy, but if you've already used it on something real, that's a head start
Getting started with Bluespec:
If you're new to Bluespec, start here: Getting Started With Bluespec
For a hands-on introduction to the language, see Rishiyur Nikhil's ICFP 2020 Bluespec Tutorial
Compensation
The US base salary for this full-time position is determined based on a variety of factors including role, experience, location, job related skills, and relevant education and training. Career length is only a guideline for compensation.
Early Career - $120,000 - $250,000 + equity
Mid Career - $175,000 - $362,500 + equity
Senior Career - $250,000 - $475,000 + equity
What We Offer
Time off: 4 weeks PTO (accrued) + 12 company Holidays + up to 3 weeks remote work
Health: Company-subsidized Medical (Kaiser or Anthem) for employees & dependents, Guardian Dental and Vision insurances for employee & dependents, and life insurance (employee only), plus HSA and FSA offerings via Lively. See attached benefits 1-pager and full benefits guide for more info on benefits.
Financial Wellbeing: Choose from Roth IRA/ 401K (or both) retirement plans with up to 5% company contribution to 401K (even if you don't contribute). Also, 100% company-paid life insurance (up to $300K) and long-term disability insurances.
Professional Development: $1500 Professional Development Budget (per year)
Team Meals: MatX provides onsite team lunch & dinner Monday - Friday, with your choice of ordering via WeBox, Specialty’s or via our reimbursement system
Commute on Us: Commute on our company Uber account, or reimburse your train rides. Either way, we pay 100% for your daily commute.
MatX E[x]tras: $50/mo to use on the perk you value most
Cell & Internet Reimbursement: $35/mo for cellular and $40/mo for wifi
Mental Wellbeing: 100% paid mental health benefit via SpringHealth and Guardian EAP.
Support to Parents: Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave regardless of path to parenthood, 10 weeks pregnancy disability leave, flexible return-to-work hours, and Benepass reproductive health & parental benefit.
AI Resources: Up to $20K/month plus a dedicated internal AI Tooling Team to support your productivity
As part of our dedication to the diversity of our team and our focus on creating an inviting and inclusive work experience, MatX is committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital/domestic partner status, military and veteran status, genetic information or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.
All candidates must be authorized to work in the United States and work from our offices in Mountain View Tuesdays-Thursdays.
This position requires access to information that is subject to U.S. export controls. This offer of employment is contingent upon the applicants capacity to perform job functions in compliance with U.S. export control laws without obtaining a license from U.S. export control authorities.
MatX does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or People team and any resumes submitted are deemed to be the property of MatX.