IC 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 an IC design engineer at Normal, you will work closely with the silicon and hardware R&D team to develop and implement novel thermodynamic computing architectures. This is a flexible role for ambitious early-career IC designers; depending on your skills and interests, you may work on analog, digital, or physical design, or a combination of the three. 

Responsibilities Could Include:

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

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

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

• RTL design of digital components on our ASICs and in our FPGA test harness, potentially including serial and parallel interface controllers, signal processing algorithms, and calibration algorithms.

• Support physical implementation of digital logic on ASICs and FPGAs using Cadence and Xilinx tools, respectively.

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

What Makes You A Great Fit:

• 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.

• Understanding of transistor mismatch, yield, and design for manufacturability.

• Experience in Verilog and/or SystemVerilog.

• Understanding of best practices of testbench design.

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

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

What Elevates Your Application:

• Fluent in C and/or C++.

• Experience working on mixed-signal systems, like PLLs, ADCs, or DACs.

• Experience with asynchronous logic.

• Proficiency with VerilogA.

• 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 working at a startup.

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