Hardware Engineer, PCB

The role

You will own the end-to-end development of the CIM substrate from architecture and schematic design to layout, tapeout, custom PCB development, and post-silicon bring-up. This involves leading the full PCB development cycle and collaborating with analog, digital, and ML engineers.

What you will do

• Lead the full PCB development cycle including research, design, and evaluation of custom chips
• Lead post-silicon correlation and validation efforts including root-cause analysis and general debug
• Ensure the PCB you designed and manufactured is fully functional as intended
• Work alongside analog, digital, and ML engineers to further improve system-level PPA

Required qualifications

• Owned multiple PCBs end-to-end through design, simulation, fabrication and bringup
• Familiar with common PCB tools, including Altium, Allegro, OrCAD, Xpedition
• Built PCBs for expansion formats like PCIe, and including components like FPGAs, high-speed memories, flash memories, and various connectors like 100G ethernet

Nice to have

• 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

About the company

Normal is an applied AI company solving the hardest problems in AI and silicon. They build foundational hardware and software for the semiconductor industry, critical AI infrastructure, and the broader systems that power our world.