Bluespec Design Engineer

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 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 lock. 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 for: 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. 0-5 years of experience - $120,000 - $200,000 + equity 5-10 years of experience - $120,000 -$300,000 + equity 10+ years experience - $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 ... (truncated, view full listing at source)