# Staff Modeling Architect 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
- Pay: $250K to $290K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-04
- Apply by: 2026-10-19
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/neurophos/fd59dc14-3f3a-4b05-878d-cf180dac3561
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/neurophos-staff-modeling-architect/

## About the role

We are seeking a staff-level modeling architect to build the path from a production model or application to two things: a performance and energy number Neurophos will stand behind, and a functional model that software can boot against before tape-out.

## What they're looking for

- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of experience in hardware modeling, functional modeling, performance modeling, performance simulation, or accelerator performance analysis used by architects, RTL, compiler and runtime, or silicon teams. Graduate research may count toward this
- Track record of shipping a model or study that another team depended on, whether architecture, compiler, customer, or silicon
- Judgment to pick the right method for a given question among roofline, limiter analysis, analytical performance models, trace-driven simulation, transaction-level modeling (TLM), and RTL simulation
- Strong grounding in computer architecture, microarchitecture, memory systems, and AI accelerators, whether GPU, TPU, NPU, or custom SoC
- Modern C++ (C++17 or later) for functional models, performance models, and simulation infrastructure

Tags: Engineering