Mythic
Architecture Modeling Engineer
$120K–$225K
Austin, TX +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 3, 2025
- Location
- Austin, TX
Palo Alto, CA - Experience
- 5+ years; may be reduced for prior modeling experience related to systems for AI. Academic work, including papers, thesis, and dissertation work, may count.
- Education
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science.
About the job
Develop hardware models to evaluate AI processor architectures, predict workload performance, verify implementations, and guide software optimization.
What you'll do
- Architect and build hardware models, including transaction-level and cycle-accurate models, to simulate custom AI software.
- Create prototype models to estimate power, performance, and area of chip architectures.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to co-design and co-verify hardware and investigate architectural ideas.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science.
- 5+ years creating performance models for architectural investigations; years may be reduced for prior modeling experience related to AI systems. Academic research work may count.
- Academic and working knowledge of hardware concepts such as CPUs, memory systems, bus interconnects, security, and chip interfaces.
- Proficiency and experience with C++/SystemC for modeling, and hardware modeling for performance and/or power.
Pay
$120,000–$225,000+ annually (USD) base salary
Tools
C++, SystemC
AI focus
Models simulate AI workloads and custom AI software on AI hardware, supporting architecture evaluation, verification, and optimization.
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