Software Engineer

<p><strong>About the Company</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span data-contrast="auto">General Matter is enriching uranium in America.</span></span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Our goal is to design, build, and&nbsp;operate&nbsp;the world’s lowest-cost enrichment services in the United States. </span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Our mission is to restore America’s ability to produce nuclear fuel—fuel that will power AI, advanced manufacturing, critical industries, and the next generation of nuclear reactors.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Ultimately, our&nbsp;work will help power national ambitions and enable a high-energy society.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">We were incubated by Founders Fund, like Anduril and Palantir before us, and are backed by top-tier investors. Our lean, world-class team of engineers and operators is applying a first-principles approach to solving the problem of nuclear fuel production. </span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">We are a mission-driven company with a culture of urgency, accountability, and transparency.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">Help us build a high-energy society by making the cleanest, safest form of baseload energy the most affordable.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong>About This Role</strong></p> <p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true" data-pm-slice="1 1 []">As a General Matter Software Engineer, you will develop performant, safe and high-quality software to directly control our systems. Your code will be responsible for commanding actuators and processing high-speed signals in applications where safety and accuracy are exceedingly important. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including electrical engineers, software engineers, chemical engineers, manufacturing engineers, nuclear engineers, materials scientists and physicists. If you seek high-impact and are excited by fast-paced, intense, Skunkworks-style projects, we encourage you to reach out to join our team.</p> <p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true" data-pm-slice="1 1 []"></p> <p><strong>We're hiring engineers across three focus areas:</strong></p> <p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true" data-pm-slice="1 1 []"></p> <p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true" data-pm-slice="1 1 []"></p> <p><strong>Backend engineers</strong> will build high-performance services and APIs that coordinate control systems, manage state across distributed hardware, and expose interfaces for monitoring and operations.</p> <p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true" data-pm-slice="1 1 []"></p> <p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true" data-pm-slice="1 1 []"></p> <p><strong>Distributed systems engineers</strong> will architect fault-tolerant coordination systems, real-time data pipelines processing high-throughput sensor telemetry, and the infrastructure that keeps critical systems running reliably at scale.</p> <p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true" data-pm-slice="1 1 []"></p> <p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true" data-pm-slice="1 1 []"></p> <p><strong>Tooling engineers</strong> will develop the developer platforms, CI/CD systems, observability tools, and deployment infrastructure that let our team iterate rapidly and safely in a production environment where mistakes have physical consequences.</p> <p data-prosemirror-content-type="node" data-prosemirror-node-name="paragraph" data-prosemirror-node-block="true" data-pm-slice="1 1 []"></p> <p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Design and implement high-performance, production-grade software systems in C++ and Python, with a strong focus on reliability and maintainability</li> <li>Architect complex solutions from the ground up, making principled decisions around system design, performance trade-offs, and technology selection</li> <li>Lead technical design reviews and code reviews, setting and enforcing engineering best practices across the team</li> <li>Build and maintain automated testing and CI/CD pipelines to ensure software quality at scale</li> <li>Mentor junior and mid-level engineers while driving independent progress on complex, ambiguous technical problems</li> </ul> <p><strong>Basic Qualifications</strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent, with 5+ years of professional software engineering experience</li> <li>Deep proficiency in C++ and/or Python, including language internals, performance characteristics, and idiomatic usage</li> <li>Strong understanding of Linux internals — process management, memory models, I/O, and system calls — and how they influence software design and performance</li> <li>Strong CS fundamentals — algorithms, data structures, concurrency, and system design</li> <li>Demonstrated ownership of large, production-grade systems with evidence of exceptional technical ability<br>&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p><strong>Preferred Skills and Experience</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience with distributed systems, observability tooling, and infrastructure as code</li> <li>Proficiency in Python ecosystems for data pipelines, automation, or backend services</li> <li>Experience with C++ performance optimization, profiling, and low-level systems programming</li> <li>Experience with Linux system programming, including threading models, IPC, real-time process management, and low-level kernel interfaces &nbsp;</li> <li>Comfort across the full software development lifecycle, from design through deployment</li> </ul> <p><strong>Additional Requirements</strong></p> <ul> <li>Ability to work extended hours and weekends as necessary.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Equal Opportunity Employer</strong></p> <p>General Matter is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with General Matter is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.</p> <p><strong>Compensation and Benefits</strong></p> <p>The base salary range for this role is <strong>$100,000-$200,000 </strong>annually.&nbsp;</p> <p>Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. <span data-teams="true">Please note that the stated salary range is an estimate and may be adjusted based on market conditions, business needs, or other factors.</span> In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision &amp; dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.</p>