ASIC Architect

The role

You will define the silicon and system microarchitecture for a custom unconventional compute platform. You will lead hardware/software co-design efforts to translate transformer architectures and diffusion execution flows into custom mixed-signal compute tiles, memory hierarchies, and tile interconnects.

What you will do

• Define the architecture and microarchitecture of novel AI accelerator compute blocks
• Translate workload analysis and research findings into hardware specifications
• Reason across the full stack and defend PPA tradeoffs
• Partner with the compiler lead on ISA co-design
• Direct block-level pre-silicon validation
• Stay current with the AI accelerator research landscape

Required qualifications

• A degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent work experience
• Substantial experience in architecture or microarchitecture of high-performance digital systems
• Fluency moving between algorithm-level analysis and hardware specification
• Experience with simulation-driven architecture
• Familiarity with quantization and reduced-precision approaches for inference and their implementation implications
• Experience writing microarchitecture specifications and working closely with RTL engineers through implementation
• Proficiency in Python or C++ for performance modeling and analysis
• Familiarity with SystemVerilog or equivalent RTL

Nice to have

• PhD welcome

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.