Developer Augmentation Engineer

What You Will Do Here: meta-level work

• Augment our architects
  • Take their toil upon yourself
  • Apply theory-of-mind and legwork to conserve architect time
  • Annihilate the toil with tooling and AI agents
  • Earn knowledge across the stack and trust across the team
• Do object-level work: getting your hands wet helps you do meta-work even better
• Transform the way we work by incorporating AI into our workflows
• Become a generalist: use the knowledge and trust you learned to solve problems across the company
• Object-level things you'll be working on & learn how to do:
  • Our hardware architecture: spec, diagrams, rationale
  • Rust simulator for our architecture
  • RTL code of our behemoth-scale AI Acceleration ASIC
  • Design Verification of this ASIC
  • Infrastructure to enable all of the above
  • Future-oriented research:
    • High-level Python simulations for architectural features
    • ML experiments for validating our approach to AI
    • Writing RL environments to improve frontier-llm performance on hardware design tasks

Who You Are

• 0 - 2 years of experience with systems programming using Rust / Python / HDLs. Linux experience is a must. Non-coursework projects preferred; among HDLs, RTL experience preferred
• You are a strong communicator, with the ability to flex to various styles (since you'll communicate with everyone in the company)
• You have a "Get Things Done" mentality. You roll up your sleeves to proactively problem-solve, undeterred by challenges and limitations. The words "that's not my job" are blasphemy!
• You are genuinely interested in people and see the support of others as enabling people's best work for the success of the company
• You are able to context switch, shifting between tactical and big-picture. You can zoom through multiple levels of abstraction with ease, tracking cross-scope implications
• You believe that kindness matters. You have a strong regard for the dignity and lived experience of others. You can spot situations at work where kindness and respect may be lacking, and bring it back to basics
• This is a hybrid role that will require you to work from our Mountain View, CA office 3 days a week on Tuesday through Thursday. We will support your relocation

Bonus Points If You Have

• Experience optimizing hardware or software
• ML experience, especially with LLMs
• Infrastructure experience: Google Cloud Platform and Github
• Experience with CLI coding agents: incl. Codex / Claude Code / Gemini CLI

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.

• $120,000 - $400,000 + equity

What We Offer

• A Stake in our success. A cash/equity mix that fits your needs and option to do early exercise
• 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