Hardware Engineer, Analog

Location & Work Style

New York City; Copenhagen; London; Palo Alto (Silicon Valley) — Full time, Hybrid

Compensation & Equity

$200K – $285K, plus equity. We are committed to competitive and equitable compensation based on role, skills, and experience. Salary ranges are guidelines, with final compensation varying by role, experience, and location and reviewed regularly for fairness.

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

Normal Computing is redefining computing for the next 20 years by optimizing LLM and Diffusion inference by 100–1000x through combining thermodynamic computing and CIM technology. You will own the end-to-end development of our CIM substrate from architecture and schematic design to layout, tapeout, custom PCB development, and post-silicon bringup.

What You Will Own

• End-to-end analog design flow: lead the full analog development cycle including research, exploratory design, and evaluation of CIM architectures
• End-to-end PCB design flow: lead the full PCB development cycle including research, design, and evaluation of custom chips
• Silicon bringup: lead post-silicon correlation and validation efforts including root-cause analysis and general debug
• PCB bringup: ensure the PCB you designed and manufactured is fully functional as intended
• Cross-functional collaboration: work alongside analog, digital, and ML engineers to further improve system-level PPA

What Makes You a Great Fit

• Developed analog IP from spec to GDSII in modern technologies, taped out and brought up
• Worked on memory technologies (i.e. SRAM, DRAM) at bitcell and array level
• Designed and characterized custom bitcells in schematic and layout
• Fluent in the Cadence flow: Virtuoso, Spectre, Assembler, Extraction, Layout
• Characterized past chips for reliability over PVT and Monte Carlo
• Owned a PCB end-to-end through design, fabrication and bringup

Bonus Points

• Lead, taped out, brought up CIM chips
• Lead, fabricated, brought up custom PCBs to evaluate custom CIM chips
• Experienced and comfortable in a lab bench environment including soldering with a microscope
• Have used scripting languages (i.e. Python, Perl) to automate design flows and data post-processing