System Software Engineer — Node & Cluster Management

About the role

MatX is seeking a System Software Engineer to join our team as we create best-in-class silicon for high-performance and sustainable GenAI. The successful candidate will design and build the node-level management plane for MatX's AI systems, cluster management solutions, and cluster-wide health aggregation, device inventory, alerting hooks, and integration points for our customers' own fleet-management systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the node-level management plane for MatX's AI systems: expose node health, inventory, telemetry, and control operations through HTTP/REST endpoints (e.g., Redfish-style or custom APIs)
• Implement cluster management solutions and failover algorithms to minimize downtime
• Develop the management CLI utilities that operators and internal engineers use daily — interacting with the on-node management and telemetry daemons to query state, run diagnostics, update firmware, and recover devices
• Partner with our BMC firmware engineers to present unified management and observability across in-band and out-of-band paths — so operators see one coherent node, whether data comes from the host daemons or the BMC (e.g., unified Redfish-style views, firmware update orchestration across host and BMC, and recovery flows that work even when the host is down)
• Extend node-level capabilities to cluster level: fleet-wide health aggregation, device inventory, alerting hooks, and integration points for our customers' own fleet-management systems
• Work with the low-level stack: regularly drop below the API layer — into the telemetry daemon, driver interfaces, or raw device access utilities — to prototype, debug, or unblock yourself
• Build tooling and automation for managing lab systems during bring-up: provisioning, test orchestration, regression monitoring
• Define the software contracts between the on-node daemons, the BMC stack, and the management layer — shared-ownership boundaries you'll co-design
• Debug production-grade issues spanning management APIs, daemons, kernel drivers, BMC firmware, and hardware
• Help shape what "manageable at scale" means for a new hardware platform, from single node to full rack to cluster

Requirements

• BS or higher in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience, with 8+ years in systems software — this is not a pure web-services role; deep low-level systems experience is required
• Strong hands-on Linux systems development experience, including low-level userspace software; comfortable reading and debugging kernel driver and daemon code
• Strong programming skills in C plus a systems language suited to services and tooling (Go, Rust, C++, and/or Python)
• Solid understanding of how the pieces underneath your APIs actually work — device drivers, telemetry paths, PCIe device behavior, BMC-managed subsystems — and the instinct to go look when something misbehaves
• Experienced debugging across API, daemon, kernel, firmware, and hardware boundaries
• Comfortable working with firmware engineers to align host-side and BMC-side management capabilities behind common interfaces
• Self-driven and pragmatic: able to stand up a working management endpoint against brand-new hardware with minimal specification

Qualifications

• Experience designing and building HTTP/REST APIs and CLI tools for hardware or infrastructure management
• Experience with Redfish, OpenBMC, gNMI, IPMI, or other datacenter hardware management standards
• Cluster/fleet management experience for GPU or accelerator infrastructure
• Experience with hardware bring-up, lab automation, or manufacturing/qualification test infrastructure
• Familiarity with firmware update orchestration, secure boot, or attestation flows

Skills

• Experience with Redfish, OpenBMC, gNMI, IPMI, or other datacenter hardware management standards
• Cluster/fleet management experience for GPU or accelerator infrastructure
• Experience with hardware bring-up, lab automation, or manufacturing/qualification test infrastructure
• Familiarity with firmware update orchestration, secure boot, or attestation flows

Benefits

• Health & Wellness: Company subsidized Health, Dental, Vision, and Life insurance; Pre-tax Health Savings Accounts with generous company contribution (even if you don’t)
• Time To Recharge: 4 weeks paid time off (accrued), 12 company holidays, and 3 weeks remote/flexible work per year
• Support to Parents: Up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave, regardless of your path to parenthood
• Learning & Development: $1,500 yearly towards your professional development e.g. conferences, courses, and other learning opportunities
• Team Connection: Team Lunches, quarterly off-sites, and regular town halls
• Financial Wellbeing: 401K and/or Roth IRA, with 5% company contribution, even if you don’t!
• Flexible Spending Accounts: Pre-tax spend accounts for medical, dental/vision, dependent care, parking, and transit expenses
• Commute On Us: For those commuting up to 1 hour, put your rideshare cost on our company card and reclaim the drive-time to get work done!
• MatX E[x]tras: $50 per month to use on the perks you care about most
• Remote Perks: We work remotely Monday & Friday, supported by home-tech setup, and remote wifi expense reimbursement

Pay

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.

Schedule

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