Security Engineer

The posting, as MatX wrote it

WHAT MATX IS BUILDING

MatX is on a mission to be the compute platform for AGI. We are developing vertically integrated full-stack solutions from silicon to systems, including hardware and software, to train and run the largest ML workloads for AGI. MatX is seeking a Senior Security Engineer 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 securing the software, build systems, and cloud infrastructure that MatX products are designed, verified, and delivered on.

As a Security Engineer reporting to our Security Lead, you'll work across a stack that spans RTL design flows, compilers and kernels, ML training infrastructure, and the cloud environments that host all of it. This is a generalist role by design. We are a startup, and we would rather hire one engineer who can move between breaking things, reviewing code, and hardening infrastructure than three specialists who each own a slice.

Your week might include a threat model with the compiler team, an adversarial look at an internal service, and a redesign of how our build artifacts get signed. Two areas in particular are where we want this hire to push us further than we are today: supply chain and build integrity, and bringing a real attacker's perspective to systems we have so far only reviewed defensively. You'll set direction rather than inherit a playbook, and you'll see the impact of your work quickly.

WHAT YOU'LL DO HERE

• Own and grow our supply chain and build integrity program - dependency and third-party IP provenance, artifact signing and code signing infrastructure, SBOM generation and consumption, reproducible builds, and hardening of CI/CD systems, build caches, and build runners. This is a priority area for us and the part of the role with the most room to define itself
• Bring an adversarial perspective to our own systems: hands-on security assessment of our code and build tooling, internal services and dashboards, developer platforms, and the systems that hold our design data - including manual code review, application and API testing, and assessment of the infrastructure behind them
• Conduct vulnerability research against the systems we build and depend on, and turn what you find into fixes and durable controls
• Partner with software, compiler, ML, and silicon teams on threat modeling and design review for new systems, and translate the results into concrete engineering work rather than a list of findings
• Harden our cloud infrastructure: identity and access management, network segmentation, secrets management, workload identity, infrastructure-as-code review, and guardrails that make the secure path the default path
• Build and run our vulnerability management program - discovery, triage, prioritization based on real exploitability in our environment, and driving remediation to completion with the owning teams
• Integrate security into the

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• 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
• Remote Home Setup: Use our Amazon business account for up to $1000 in office setup purchases.
• 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 a $6K Family Fund to cover fertility, surrogacy, adoption, menopausal health, preservation, family counseling and more.

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.
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This position requires access to information that is subject to U.S. export controls. This offer of employment is contingent upon the applicant's capacity to perform job functions in compliance with U.S. export control laws without obtaining a license from U.S. export control authorities.
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