# Design Verification Lead at Neurophos

- Company: Neurophos
- What the company does: Neurophos develops photonic AI processing technology that focuses on hardware solutions for accelerating artificial intelligence inference by replacing traditional electronic compute elements with Optical Processing Units (OPUs). Backed by Purple Arch Ventures.
- Company website: https://neurophos.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Austin, Texas
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-31
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neurophos/ea20f64d-0622-4c4c-9f17-11aad602080a
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/neurophos-design-verification-lead/

## About the role

We're hiring the Design Verification Lead for the digital design team. You'll own verification for our electronic IC from module-level simulation through SoC integration, gate-level signoff, and into the validation plan. Verification here is being built from an early stage, so you'll define the UVM methodology we standardize on, set up and run the Palladium emulation environment yourself, and extend the FPGA-based harness we're already using to run real code against modules.

## What they're looking for

- 8 to 15 years in design verification, including leading verification on a GPU-class or complex compute ASIC through tapeout
- Deep expertise in UVM and SystemVerilog, including ownership of testbench architecture, formal verification, coverage analysis, and CI/CD methodology
- Gate-level simulation experience. You know what gate sim costs you in visibility and where it belongs in a tapeout schedule
- Verification experience on a chip with many independently developed blocks and analog components, including integration of analog models
- Comfort standing up a verification environment end-to-end, including emulation infrastructure
- Breadth across the flow, from module-level simulation through SoC integration and into validation planning

Tags: Engineering