Hardware Engineer, Analog

Job Title

Hardware Engineer, Analog

Role Summary

Design core mixed-signal circuits and IP that enable an unconventional computing architecture. Own end-to-end analog development from clean-sheet circuit design through parasitic extraction and silicon bring-up, collaborating closely with architecture, digital, layout, and EDA teams.

Work focuses on high-throughput, energy-efficient analog blocks and memory-peripheral designs intended for production silicon.

Experience Level

Mid-level. The role expects engineers with practical tapeout and silicon bring-up experience; no explicit years-of-experience requirement is stated.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibilities include:

• Design analog circuits, library cells, and macros to meet architecture specifications.
• Lead the full analog design flow: research, exploratory design, schematic, layout, extraction, and characterization.
• Develop or acquire analog IP and integrate it into silicon designs.
• Evaluate and design memory subsystems, including SRAM, DRAM, and compute-in-memory (CIM) architectures.
• Collaborate with silicon architecture, digital, layout, and EDA teams to support tapeout and silicon bring-up.
• Contribute to or direct analog EDA tool development and automation.

Requirements

Must-have:

• Experience developing analog IP from specification to GDSII, with tapeout and silicon bring-up.
• Practical experience with memory technologies at the core level (bitcells and peripheral circuits).
• Designed and characterized custom bitcells in schematic and layout.
• Fluent with Cadence analog flow (Virtuoso, Spectre, assembler/characterization tools, extraction, layout).
• Deep understanding of noise, variability, and their impacts on silicon performance and reliability.

Nice-to-have:

• Led, taped out, and brought up CIM chips.
• Experience in chip measurement, debug, and characterization in a lab environment.
• Used scripting or AI tools (Python, Perl, etc.) to automate design flows and post-process measurement data.

Education Requirements

Not specified.

Accessibility accommodations: Normal Computing provides reasonable accommodations for applicants; contact accommodations@normalcomputing.com for requests.

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.