Product Manager

The role

You will work with the Product Lead and engineering teams to build AI systems and an autoresearch platform for the ASIC team. You will decide what to build and be accountable for delivering incremental milestones to tapeout.

What you will do

• Investigate where the ASIC team's time goes and decide what to build.
• Write requirements docs and user journeys.
• Build prototypes to communicate ideas.
• Work with engineers to turn prototypes into production tools.
• Work in the codebase with coding agents to open PRs for bug fixes or UI changes.
• Scope out requirements and success criteria for custom EDA tools.
• Prototype experiment dashboards.

Required qualifications

• A degree in CS, EE, physics, math, or similar, or the equivalent taught to yourself.
• 1-3 years of experience in product management, engineering, research, technical program management, or a related technical role.
• Ability to point to something that was your idea and that you made real.
• Fluency with coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar.
• Experience building or evaluating LLM-powered products.
• Clarity of communication in both speaking and writing.
• Comfort with ambiguity.
• Interest in how chips are designed.

Nice to have

• Coursework, research, or internship experience in chip architectures, digital design, verification, or hardware performance modeling.
• Exposure to SystemVerilog.
• Familiarity with the mechanisms underlying LLM inference

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.