Hardware Engineer, ASIC Architect
Normal Computing | Build with Us
Normal is an applied AI company solving the hardest problems in AI and silicon. We build foundational hardware and software for the semiconductor industry, critical AI infrastructure, and the broader systems that power our world, in partnership with the world's most advanced institutions. We work as one team across New York City, Silicon Valley (Mountain View), London, Copenhagen, and Seoul.
The Role
As a Hardware ASIC 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.
