# Principal SOC Design Engineer / SOC 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: Principal and up
- Location: Austin, Texas
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $225K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-18
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neurophos/70518c7c-f9c5-4969-a006-e99e13ac1ffa
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/neurophos-principal-soc-design-engineer-soc-lead/

## About the role

Lead integration of the full chip, or a major module/subsystem, including ownership of top-level integration flows. Make and own cross-domain technical decisions spanning system functionality, DFT, power, timing, and interconnect/data-fabric architecture.

## What they're looking for

- Principal-level (or equivalent) technical leadership experience at a semiconductor or systems company, with multiple full-chip tapeouts
- Demonstrated breadth across domains: for example, you've closed timing on a block and argued interconnect architecture in the same design cycle
- Deep experience in at least one of: CPU design, or high-speed interconnect / data-fabric design. Interconnect and data-fabric work is especially central to what we're building
- Experience with advanced process nodes, high-bandwidth I/O, and large, physically big subsystem or full-chip designs
- Cadence toolchain experience
- Comfortable being evaluated as either an individual-contributor technical leader or a people manager, we're open to either path for the right person

Tags: Engineering