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# Director, Quality and Reliability Engineering – AI Hardware at d-Matrix

- **Company:** d-Matrix
- **Location:** Santa Clara, CA
- **Compensation:** $195k–$285k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-19
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/d-matrix/6fe8f1e7-6d67-46bd-8c49-856bc7bd8561

## Job description

Join d-Matrix and help build the future of AI inference. We’ve pioneered a memory-centric architecture that brings compute directly into memory, making AI faster, more energy efficient, and accessible on a global scale. From chips and software to rack-scale systems, our team is tackling some of AI infrastructure’s hardest challenges — and shipping breakthrough technology today. If you want to create what comes next and help make infinite inference possible, we’d love to hear from you. Our culture is built on respect, collaboration, and direct communication. We value humility, we believe our different perspectives lead to better solutions, and we’re looking for people who are driven by execution and energized by hard problems. Location: Hybrid, working onsite at our Santa Clara, CA, HQ 3 days per week.

Title: Director, Quality and Reliability Engineering – AI Hardware

The Role: d-Matrix is seeking an experienced quality and reliability leader to own product, supplier, manufacturing, and customer quality, reliability engineering, and component engineering for AI hardware platforms spanning ASIC, cards, servers, racks, and clusters. This leader is accountable for quality, reliability, field performance, and customer confidence for high-performance AI systems deployed at data center scale. The role operates at the intersection of hardware engineering, manufacturing operations, supply chain, and customers, embedding quality and reliability into design, supplier, and manufacturing decisions. d-Matrix is already shipping first-generation Rack Scale products in volume. This is a hands-on role with the opportunity to build and lead a top-notch team to achieve world-class quality, reliability, and availability performance.

This Role Owns

- Quality Management System (QMS) and audit readiness, aligned to ISO 9001 or equivalent
- Product Quality and Reliability Engineering, including qualification, RDT, MTBF, ORT, and fault-tolerant design
- Supplier Quality across ODMs, Contract Manufacturers, and component suppliers
- Manufacturing Quality at ODM and CM sites, including process control, yield, DPPM, and shipment readiness
- Customer Quality, including RMA, reverse logistics, failure analysis, and customer escalations
- Component Engineering for board-level products and above, including qualification, AVL governance, and second sourcing
- Quality metrics and executive reporting with independent reporting to leadership
- This role sets quality strategy, standards, and outcomes, collaborating closely with Engineering, Manufacturing, Test, and Supplier and Partner Management who execute within that framework

What you will do:

- Build and scale the QMS, including Control Plans, Work Instructions, and CAPA governance, across ASIC, card, server, rack, and cluster-level products
- Design and run RMA, reverse logistics, and failure analysis processes with closed-loop feedback into design and manufacturing
- Drive reliability programs (qualification, RDT, MTBF, ORT) and fault-tolerant design that meets AI datacenter availability requirements
- Establish supplier and manufacturing quality programs across partners, including audits, process controls, and NPI build readiness
- Lead Component Engineering for board-level products and above, including qualification, second-source programs, and lifecycle management
- Define quality KPIs and dashboards (yield, DPPM, RMA rate, MTBF, CAPA closure) and report independently to executive leadership
- Serve as the quality voice in product release and shipment readiness, customer audits, and escalations; build, hire, and develop the quality organization for volume shipments and Rack Scale solutions

What you will bring:

- 15+ years in hardware quality and reliability engineering, including 5+ years leading multi-disciplinary teams
- BS/MS in EE/ME or a related engineering field
- Deep exposure to server-class systems, AI accelerators, or data center hardware
- Proven track record of building or scaling a QMS through high-volume ramps
- Hands-on experience across supplier, manufacturing, and customer quality, including ODMs and CMs
- Component engineering experience: qualification, AVL management, second sourcing, and lifecycle management
- Command of reliability fundamentals (MTBF, acceleration models, RDT/ORT, system-, rack-, and cluster-level availability) and quality tools (8D, 5-Why, FMEA, SPC, DOE)
- ISO 9001 lead auditor experience or equivalent; ASQ CQE/CRE and PLM (Arena or Agile) familiarity preferred
- Strong executive presence with customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders

## Equal Opportunity Employment Policy

d-Matrix is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and affirmative action employer. We’re committed to fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcomed and empowered to do their best work. We hire the best talent for our teams, regardless of race, religion, color, age, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, genetic information, marital status, national origin, political affiliation, or veteran status. Our focus is on hiring teammates with humble expertise, kindness, dedication, and a willingness to embrace challenges and learn together every day. d-Matrix does not accept resumes or candidate submissions from external agencies. We appreciate the interest and effort of recruitment firms, but we kindly request that individuals interested in opportunities with d-Matrix apply directly through our official channels. This approach allows us to streamline our hiring processes and maintain a consistent and fair evaluation of all applicants. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

## About d-Matrix

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: d-Matrix is building ultra-low latency, memory-centric AI inference hardware and software platforms for datacenter-scale generative AI workloads.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, total raised ~$429M–$450M per conflicting reports)
- **Headquarters**: Santa Clara, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Sid Sheth (CEO) & Sudeep Bhoja (CTO / Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: AI infrastructure, semiconductor / hardware acceleration, datacenter compute
- **Target customers**: Cloud providers, enterprises running large-scale generative AI inference (B2B)
- **Mission / purpose**: To transform AI from unsustainable to attainable by breaking through limits of latency, cost, and energy in inference.

## Products & Services
- **Corsair™** – AI inference accelerator platform (PCIe form factor, chiplet-based, 3D stacked DRAM) purpose-built for the decode phase of disaggregated inference. Works alongside GPUs for low-latency interactive AI.
- **JetStream™** – Purpose-built I/O accelerator for AI inference (networking fabric to scale accelerator-to-accelerator communication).
- **Aviator** – Software stack that orchestrates and optimizes inference workloads on d-Matrix hardware.
- **SquadRack™** – Industry’s first rack-scale, disaggregated standards-based solution for AI inference, built with infrastructure partners.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key metric**: Total funding – $429M (per CB Insights) or $450M (per company blog after $275M Series C). Series C announced in late 2025 / early 2026.
- **Notable investors**: Temasek, M12 (Microsoft’s venture arm), Playground Global, Nautilus Venture Partners, Industry Ventures, Mirae Asset Financial Group, Triatomic Capital, Bullhound Capital.
- **Growth signals**:
  - Corsair entered full production in June 2026.
  - Won “AI Processor Innovation Award” from AI Breakthrough in June 2026.
  - Filed 21+ patents in parallel computing, neural networks, NLP.
  - Opened engineering offices in Santa Clara, Toronto, Bengaluru, Sydney, and Belgrade – global expansion underway.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Memory-centric compute architecture (3DIMC™)** that eliminates latency bottlenecks caused by traditional memory-bound AI inference.
- Chiplet-based design enables scaling to 100B+ parameter models in a PCIe form factor.
- Disaggregated, standards-based rack-scale approach (SquadRack) that integrates seamlessly with existing datacenter infrastructure.
- Team of industry veterans who have shipped over 100 million chips and generated $5B+ in prior revenue.

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling production of Corsair to meet customer demand for agentic AI workloads (voice agents, coding tools, real-time inference).
- Building a heterogeneous compute ecosystem where d-Matrix accelerators complement GPUs rather than replace them.
- Expanding software stack (Aviator) and networking (JetStream) to deliver full-stack inference solutions.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Round pegs in square holes” – builders, innovators, dreamers. Emphasis on humility, direct communication, and collaboration.
- **Work model**: Remote & hybrid working model (global offices in Silicon Valley, Sydney, Bengaluru, Toronto, Belgrade).
- **Benefits**: Competitive pay and equity, health care, flexible time-off, paid paternity leave, 401k, on-site fitness centers, free food/snacks, peer coaching & development, team-building activities.
- **Engineering environment**: Work with world-leading engineers and researchers on cutting-edge AI hardware/software. Opportunity to shape the future of AI inference infrastructure.

## Sources
1. [d-matrix.ai – Homepage](https://www.d-matrix.ai/)
2. [d-matrix.ai – About / Leadership](https://www.d-matrix.ai/about/)
3. [d-matrix.ai – Careers](https://www.d-matrix.ai/careers/)
4. [d-matrix.ai – Corsair Production & AI Breakthrough Award](https://www.d-matrix.ai/announcements/d-matrix-corsair-ai-inference-platform-enters-full-production-to-meet-customer-demand/)
5. [CB Insights – d-Matrix Company Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/d-matrix)
6. [Ashby – d-Matrix Jobs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/d-matrix)

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