Normal Computing
Hardware Engineer, RTL/PD
New York City
Sponsorship not specified$10k-$100kDetected 22 hours ago
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About the role
- Hands-on experience writing production RTL in SystemVerilog and closing it through synthesis and place-and-route
- At least three tapeouts in your background, from any node and any company size
- Experience working on datapaths, pipelines, or custom logic where the microarchitecture was not fully specified upfront
Responsibilities
- Normal Computing builds silicon that turns thermal noise from an obstacle into a computational resource.
- We co-design the full stack:
- Physical Design:Take synthesized RTL gates through the full backend design flow, including floorplanning, detailed place and route, CTS, DFT insertion, timing closure, and LVS/DRC.
- Experience at an AI chip company where design, verification, and PD were tightly coupled
- As an RTL and PD Design Engineer at Normal, you will take and optimize RTL through synthesis and the backend to produce GDSII ready for tapeout.
- This work sits at the intersection of classical ASIC design, novel computing architectures, and a development environment where the hardware and the algorithms are built together, not in sequence
- You will own RTL from microarchitecture to tapeout: writing microarchitecture specifications, creating synthesizable SystemVerilog, working with design verification engineers to fully test the design using conventional and formal methods.
Requirements
- Familiarity with RISC-V or other open ISAs
- Experience with AI-assisted RTL or EDA tooling in your design workflow
Compensation
- $10k-$100k
Company info
- Because Normal's chips are not standard accelerators, the RTL engineer here is closer to first-principles decisions than at a larger company.
Equal opportunity
- Normal Computing is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
- Accessibility Accommodations
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