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Hardware Engineer, Architect
Normal Computing
Palo Alto, USA
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About Normal Computing
Normal Computing builds silicon that turns thermal noise from an obstacle into a computational resource. Conventional chips spend most of their energy forcing determinism onto physics; ours compute with it. Stochastic, in-memory, asynchronous: the result is 10-100× more AI inference per dollar, per watt.
We co-design the full stack: AI-native EDA systems in production with the world's largest semiconductor companies, and the advanced ASICs they make possible. Backed by $85M+ from the world's leading deep-tech investors and built by scientists, engineers, and operators from the labs that built modern computing.
Normal works as one team across New York, Silicon Valley, London, Copenhagen, and Seoul. We hire people who want the hardest version of their craft, across every discipline, at every seniority.
The Role
As a Hardware Engineer, Architect, you will define the silicon and system microarchitecture for our custom unconventional compute platform—driving the architectural trade-offs that unlock a 100–1000x leap in energy efficiency over traditional digital chips for LLM and diffusion model inference .
You will lead the hardware/software co-design efforts to break the von Neumann memory wall. By translating transformer architectures (KV-cache management, attention mechanisms) and diffusion execution flows into custom mixed-signal compute tiles, memory hierarchies, and tile interconnects, you will set the blueprint for our hardware. Working closely with compiler, RTL, and analog teams, you will build performance models, establish microarchitectural specifications, and ensure our custom silicon delivers maximum throughput-per-watt on real-world generative AI workloads.
What You Will Own
Compute Architecture : Help define the architecture and microarchitecture of novel AI accelerator compute blocks: PE array design, datapath organization, and support for efficiency techniques such as sparsity exploitation and reduced-precision computation. The compute tile is the surface where Normal's research advantages have to show up in silicon, and you are one of the people responsible for making sure they do.
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