# System Software Engineer, Linux Driver and Driver Adjacent

What MatX Is Building MatX's mission is to make the world’s best AI models run as efficiently as allowed by physics, bringing the world years ahead in AI quality and availability. MatX is seeking System Software Engineer to join our team as we create best-in-class silicon for high-performance and sustainable GenAI. Successful candidates for these roles will be responsible for delivering performant and functionally accurate silicon for MatX products across compute, memory management. High-speed connectivity and other key technologies. The MatX host system software team owns everything that makes our AI silicon and systems usable: from Linux kernel drivers up through node and cluster management. We build integrated AI systems from custom silicon through fully deployed rack-scale infrastructure. Our system software team owns the host software stack - the layer where our hardware becomes a usable, manageable system. The team also co-owns the BMC/OpenBMC firmware stack, with dedicated firmware engineers, so host software and out-of-band management are designed together rather than bolted together. What you'll do Design and implement Linux kernel and userspace drivers for our custom and

- **Id**: 1222194
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/matx-system-software-engineer-linux-kernel-and-device-drivers>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Mountain View, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-17T04:43:50Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-17
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T08:59:28Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 57
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5533
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Equity, Internet reimbursement, Life insurance, Parental leave, Professional development, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Chips & Accelerators

## Company

- **Id**: 1776304
- **Name**: MatX
- **Domain**: matx.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/matx-com>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 16
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 36
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 160000
- **Max**: 275000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 275000

## Technologies

- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Wi-Fi** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 57

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-25T12:29:18Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 8; Filings 12m: 8

## Liveness

- **Score**: 18
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.406
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 56
- **Expected fill days**: 36
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 275000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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