Firmware Engineer for AI Hardware Accelerators

Neurophos; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plan

Unlimited PTO

401(k) matching

Stock options

Dental & Vision

Job summary

Neurophos is seeking a talented Firmware Engineer in Austin, TX to advance our novel LLM accelerator. You will develop and optimize the firmware layer that directly drives our hybrid optical-electronic compute hardware, ensuring reliability and performance across the system.

You will work with hardware teams to define interfaces, build testing tools, and contribute to end-to-end performance from software to hardware, while supporting customer integrations and documenting firmware interfaces.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related field
• 3–5 years of professional experience in firmware engineering, embedded systems, or low-level systems programming
• Proficiency in embedded C++ and Python for tooling/automation

Responsibilities

• Contribute to low-level firmware to orchestrate execution of LLM workloads across hardware accelerator components
• Collaborate with hardware engineers to define software-hardware interfaces
• Develop debugging, profiling, testing, and validation frameworks and documentation

Skills

Embedded C++

Python

Low-level firmware

System optimization

Education

BSc in CS/EE

Tools

Docker

Git

CMake

Verilog

Job description

Neurophos is seeking a talented Firmware Engineer in Austin, TX to advance our novel LLM accelerator. You will develop and optimize the firmware layer that directly drives our hybrid optical-electronic compute hardware, ensuring reliability and performance across the system.

You will work with hardware teams to define interfaces, build testing tools, and contribute to end-to-end performance from software to hardware, while supporting customer integrations and documenting firmware interfaces.