LinkedIn · Jul 2026
Company says it is building the world's first SPU and is hiring for software and low-level SPU roles in Redwood City.
The Fastest Scientific Computing Platform on the Planet
Company research
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Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Vorticity is a founder-led scientific computing hardware/software company building the Pyrite9 Scientific Processing Unit (SPU) and related software to accelerate simulation-heavy workloads in energy, aerospace/defense, life sciences, mining/REE exploration, and finance. Public sources conflict slightly on HQ, employee count, and revenue, but consistently describe a small venture-backed team focused on domain-specific compute.
Primary product
Pyrite9 Scientific Processing Unit (SPU) and associated scientific computing platform
Founded
2019
Headquarters
Mountain View, California, United States (official site/career pages also list Redwood City office/address)
Team size
1-10
Work style
Flexible
Industry
Software Development
Sub-industry
Scientific computing hardware/software; domain-specific accelerators; HPC
Offices
Mountain View, California, United States
1775 Woodside Road #302, Redwood City, CA 94061
San Mateo, California, United States
Business model
B2B scientific computing platform
Hardware + software solutions
Partnership/custom deployment sales
Funding
Stage
Series A
Total raised
$12.9M
Latest round
Series A · Mar 2022
Latest amount
$12M
Mar 2022
Nov 2019 · Acequia Capital
Aug 2019 · Y Combinator
People & investors
Work & culture
Mission-driven, technical, math-and-science heavy, community-first, and explicitly values risk-taking and doing the right thing.
Work style
Flexible
Compensation
Public YC job postings show engineering salaries of roughly $120K-$170K for Kernel Engineer and $130K-$190K for Software Engineer roles in Redwood City; no public equity details found.
Benefits
Health insurance
401(k) retirement benefits
Flexible hours and locations
PTO
Free food
Product & market
Differentiators
- —Custom software + hardware pair
- —Purpose-built SPU for scientific workloads
- —Claims 10x-1,000x speedups over existing solutions
- —Vertically integrated stack from architecture to software
- —Open-sourced rare-earth exploration dataset and workflow
Technology
CUDA
Python
OpenMP
Kubernetes
Docker
gRPC
Verilog
SystemVerilog
VHDL
C
React
PyTorch
LLVM
Argo CD
Prometheus
Jenkins
Grafana
Linux
Customers
Energy companies
Life sciences / drug discovery teams
Aerospace organizations
Defense users
Rare earth / mineral exploration teams
Finance / risk management teams
Weather and climate modeling users
Royal Dutch Shell
Competitors
Generic GPU-based scientific computing stacks
NVIDIA GPU clusters
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M (third-party estimates cluster around ~$5M ARR)
Estimated monthly visits
2.3K
Traffic estimate as of Jul 2026
Latest news
LinkedIn · Jan 2026
Company posted an early SPU role focused on applied mathematics and scientific computing.
The Leading Edge / SEG · Jan 2026
Paper by Vorticity-affiliated authors on accelerating elastic full-waveform inversion on GPU-based HPC systems.
Financial Post · Nov 2025
Company announced an open-source nationwide dataset of REE exploration targets generated via physics-informed inverse modeling and AI.
HPCwire · Nov 2025
Profiles Vorticity’s GPU-accelerated inverse modeling approach and its open-source REE map, highlighting founder/CEO Chirath Neranjena’s comments.
Jobs and careers at Vorticity
1 job at Vorticity
Software Engineer, Parallel Scientific Computing
On-site
Hardware - Scientific Processing Unit (SPU)
Redwood City; Redwood City, California, United States
1mo ago
On-site
Full-time