Head of Silicon Product Engineering

Job Title

Head of Silicon Product Engineering

Role Summary

Lead the silicon product engineering function responsible for taking Normal’s custom AI silicon from tape-out through high-volume manufacturing. You will build the team, vendor relationships, and processes for packaging, test, post-silicon validation, yield learning, qualification, and production calibration for memory products.

Experience Level

Senior - requires extensive senior-level experience in semiconductor product and test engineering (see Requirements).

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end post-silicon and manufacturing readiness activities, establish vendor and process strategy, and build the organization and data practices needed to move designs into reliable production at scale.

• Own post-silicon bring-up, characterization, validation, and debug across multiple silicon generations.
• Define and drive packaging and test strategy, including ATE program development and test condition optimization for yield, quality, and performance.
• Select, qualify, and manage OSAT and test-house partners through NPI and into high-volume manufacturing; manage cost, quality, and yield negotiations.
• Lead yield learning and qualification from early silicon through production ramp; perform root-cause analysis of failures.
• Define production calibration and screening methodology for memory products to meet performance and reliability targets at volume.
• Build and lead a high-performing silicon product engineering organization, including hiring, processes, and tooling.
• Partner with design, architecture, and supply chain teams to ensure producibility, testability, and cost/yield optimization early in the design cycle.
• Establish data analysis practices for wafer acceptance, sort, package, and system-level test to detect failure mechanisms early.

Requirements

Core qualifications and experience required; bonus items listed separately.

• Must-have: 15+ years in semiconductor product/test engineering with direct ownership of silicon from NPI through high-volume manufacturing.
• Proven experience selecting, qualifying, and managing OSAT and foundry partners, including cost, quality, and yield negotiations.
• Deep hands-on background in packaging, ATE program development, and post-silicon bring-up and validation.
• Experience designing and implementing production test and screening methodology for complex, high-reliability products.
• Track record of building and scaling engineering teams at early stage.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with design, architecture, and supply chain organizations.
• Experience building data infrastructure and analysis practices for characterization and manufacturing data.

Nice-to-have:

• Experience bringing up test and qualification for new or unconventional silicon architectures.
• Experience with memory-adjacent product engineering (DRAM, HBM, custom memory modules).
• Experience at AI or high-performance compute startups with rapid iteration between design, verification, and product engineering.
• Comfort operating where test methodology is being invented alongside hardware.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.

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.