Firmware Engineer

Job Title

Firmware Engineer

Role Summary

Develop low-level firmware that runs on an SoC microcontroller to provide an API between Normal Computing's AI acceleration hardware and higher-level software. Work with hardware and software teams to debug across simulation, RTL, and physical prototypes and to deliver production-quality firmware and development tooling.

Normal builds applied AI silicon and software; this role focuses on firmware that interfaces with novel AI acceleration architectures.

Experience Level

Mid-level (typically 3–7 years). The posting requests 5+ years of firmware development experience.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include firmware development, tooling, verification, and cross-discipline collaboration.

• Design and implement firmware for an embedded processor on an SoC to expose an API for higher-level software.
• Collaborate with hardware and software engineers to define and specify API and firmware requirements.
• Select, acquire, and configure development tools (compilers, simulators, debuggers) and maintain multi-environment workflows (software simulation, RTL simulation, hardware).
• Develop verification and stress-test plans and build environments to ensure production-quality firmware.
• Debug firmware across prototype and ASIC platforms.

Requirements

Must-have qualifications and skills are listed below; optional skills are noted under "Nice-to-have."

• Must-have: 5+ years of firmware development experience.
• Must-have: Experience specifying and building a firmware development environment for a shipping product (compilers, debuggers, simulators, toolchains).
• Must-have: Proven expertise in firmware languages and target architectures and experience debugging in prototyping and ASIC environments.
• Must-have: Ability to interface effectively with hardware and software teams and to document and specify APIs.
• Must-have: Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Nice-to-have:

• RISC-V experience.
• FPGA experience and in-circuit debugging.
• Experience with AI acceleration hardware.
• Hands-on use of LLMs or agentic tools in development workflows.

Education Requirements

Not specified.

About the Company

Company: Normal Computing

Headquarters: New York, NY, USA

Normal Computing develops software and hardware solutions for the semiconductor and AI infrastructure industries, specializing in ASICs for image and video diffusion inference and AI accelerators. The company focuses on architecture and microarchitecture of compute blocks, PE array design, ISA co-design, and FPGA prototyping.