AI Systems Performance Modeling Architect

Velaura AI, Inc.; Durham (NC); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive equity compensation

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Paid time off

Flexible work arrangements

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Velaura AI, Inc. is seeking a Performance Modeling Architect to develop modeling and simulation frameworks guiding architectural decisions across our platform.

You will build models capturing AI workloads, software stacks, and hardware architectures to enable rigorous evaluation of system-level tradeoffs and energy efficiency. Your work will influence the architecture of next-generation AI compute platforms, collaborating with hardware and ML teams to quantify impact on performance, latency, and

Qualifications

• Strong background in computer architecture, system architecture, or performance modeling.
• Experience building simulation or analytical models of complex hardware systems.
• Strong programming skills (Python, C++, or similar) for modeling and simulation frameworks.
• Understanding of modern compute architectures such as CPUs, GPUs, or AI accelerators.
• Ability to analyze complex systems and identify performance bottlenecks.
• Strong quantitative reasoning and ability to translate models into architectural insights.

Responsibilities

• Develop system-level performance models for AI workloads and compute architectures.
• Build simulation frameworks that capture interactions between AI models, software runtimes, and hardware systems.
• Model key components of SoC architecture including compute units, memory hierarchies, and interconnects.
• Incorporate relevant software and runtime behavior into modeling frameworks to reflect realistic system execution.
• Analyze system bottlenecks and evaluate architectural tradeoffs across the platform.
• Work closely with hardware architects to guide microarchitectural and system-level design decisions.
• Collaborate with software and ML teams to incorporate realistic workloads into modeling frameworks.
• Use modeling and simulation to evaluate performance, latency, throughput, and energy efficiency across target applications.

Skills

Computer architecture

Simulation models

Python/C++

CPUs/GPUs/AI accelerators

Bottleneck analysis

Quantitative reasoning

Tools

Architectural simulators

Performance modeling tools

Job description

Velaura AI, Inc. is seeking a Performance Modeling Architect to develop modeling and simulation frameworks guiding architectural decisions across our platform.

You will build models capturing AI workloads, software stacks, and hardware architectures to enable rigorous evaluation of system-level tradeoffs and energy efficiency. Your work will influence the architecture of next-generation AI compute platforms, collaborating with hardware and ML teams to quantify impact on performance, latency, and