Custom Memory Design Engineer

The role

You will build custom memories that power an unconventional computing architecture. You will design unique RAM circuits in various technologies including SRAMs and DRAMs.

What you will do

• Lead the full custom RAM development cycle from architecture to closure
• Develop or acquire RAM IP for use in Normal Silicon, including RAM PDKs
• Acquire or help direct RAM design EDA tool development
• Own end-to-end development of various RAM circuits from clean-sheet design through closure, tapeout, and silicon bring-up

Required qualifications

• Developed RAM IP from spec to GDSII in modern technologies, taped out and brought up
• Worked on memory technologies (i.e. SRAM, DRAM) at the core level (bitcell arrays and peripheral circuits)
• Designed and characterized custom bitcells in schematic and layout
• Fluent in the Cadence flow: Virtuoso, Spectre, Assembler, Extraction, Layout, HSMC, Characterization
• Deep understanding of noise and variation and their impacts on silicon performance and reliability

Nice to have

• Lead, taped out, brought up CIM chips
• Experienced and comfortable in a chip measurement environment for debug and characterization
• Have used AI and/or scripting languages (i.e. Python, Perl) to automate design flows and data post-processing

About the company

Normal is an applied AI company solving problems in AI and silicon. They build foundational hardware and software for the semiconductor industry and critical AI infrastructure.