Mixed Signal Design Engineer

Your Role in Our Mission:

At Normal Computing, we’re developing a new thermodynamic computing paradigm to accelerate probabilistic AI workloads by embracing noise, rather than fighting it. Our work combines foundational research on the physics of computing with a mission to ship scalable, reliable silicon and systems to revolutionize AI.

As a mixed-signal design engineer at Normal, you will work closely with the silicon and hardware R&D team to develop and implement novel thermodynamic computing architectures. You will have significant ownership of the mixed-signal computational core of our architecture, as well as the analog-to-digital interface circuits that will enable the thermodynamic compute core to interface with digital systems.

Responsibilities:

• You will play a key role in the entire development process of our silicon, from idea to architecture to implementation to tape-out.

• Contribute new ideas for potential thermodynamic computing technologies and architectures.

• Implement analog and mixed-signal components in Cadence Virtuoso, potentially including analog-to-digital converters, amplifiers, memory cells, and oscillators.

• Perform layout, parasitic extraction, and optimization of Normal’s thermodynamic computing circuits.

• Participate in the tape-out, bring-up, and testing of Normal’s silicon.

What Makes You A Great Fit:

• Experience working on analog-to-digital and/or digital-to-analog converters that push the envelope in terms of performance, power consumption, accuracy, or area.

• Proficiency with VerilogA for modeling analog and mixed-signal circuits and devices, and experience leveraging those models to deliver system-level performance estimates.

• Experience in Verilog and/or SystemVerilog.

• Experience in scripting languages, including Python, Perl, and/or TCL.

• Proficiency with Cadence Virtuoso for design and layout of analog blocks.

• Understanding of design and layout techniques to minimize mismatch and parasitics while maximizing performance.

• Strong understanding of design for manufacturability, transistor mismatch, and yield.

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work well on a small, interdisciplinary team.

What Elevates Your Application:

• Experience with mixed-signal PLL design.

• Experience with foundries & foundry aggregators to help acquire, set up, and support PDKs, set up and perform LVS and DRC flows, and tape out a completed silicon product.

• Experience selecting, sourcing, and integrating third-party IP from multiple different vendors into a silicon product.

• Familiarity with the wafer test, packaging, and chip testing process, including creating package drawings, writing test plans, and working with an external testing provider to implement testing at scale.

• Experience working at a startup.

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