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About the Role
As our FPGA Design Engineer, you will own the bridge between RTL and physical silicon: bringing our physics-inspired ASIC designs to life on FPGA platforms for pre-silicon validation and early software development, and building the test infrastructure for post-silicon bring-up and characterization. Your scope spans the entire FPGA lifecycle: selecting hardware platforms, implementing complex RTL, debugging in the lab, and writing the software that drives it all, working daily with our silicon, EDA, and research teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead the selection, procurement, and bring-up of FPGA prototyping platforms for pre-silicon RTL validation and software development.
- Adapt and implement complex ASIC RTL onto FPGA targets, including multi-clock-domain architectures, CDC bridges, and timing closure on dense designs.
- Integrate in-house designs with third-party and vendor IP; serve as the expert on the AMD/Xilinx ecosystem.
- Design, implement, and validate high-speed I/O with a focus on PCIe.
- Build FPGA-based "tester" designs for silicon bring-up, device characterization, and automated test environments.
- Develop the software layer around the hardware: Python/C++ hardware abstraction, register-map generation, and automated build and regression flows.
- Root-cause complex timing and functional issues in real time using ILA/Vivado Analyzer, oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and BER/eye-diagram characterization of high-speed links.
Requirements
- Proven industry experience taking FPGA designs from RTL through timing closure to validated hardware, ideally in an ASIC prototyping, emulation, or high-growth hardware environment.
- Expert-level SystemVerilog and/or VHDL for synthesis, with deep proficiency in Xilinx Vivado (synthesis, place & route, timing closure, IP catalog).
- Hands-on experience implementing and debugging PCIe, plus AXI/AHB, SPI, UART, JTAG, and other common interfaces.
- Strong Python for automation, test, and build tooling.
- Strong board-level bring-up and lab debugging skills on real hardware.
- Startup mindset: you work independently, pivot quickly, and run at ambiguous problems that span hardware, software, and physics.
Skills
- FPGA
- RTL
- ASIC
- SystemVerilog
- VHDL
- Xilinx Vivado
- PCIe
- AXI
- AHB
- SPI
- UART
- JTAG
- Python
- C++
- ILA
- Vivado Analyzer
- Oscilloscopes
- Logic Analyzers
- BER
- Eye-diagram
- Cocotb
- UVM
- ML
- HLS
- FINN
- Mixed-signal ASIC
- SERDES tuning
- Signal integrity
- CI/CD
- GitLab CI
- Docker
Location
- New York City
- Silicon Valley (Mountain View)
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Industry experience
About the Company
- Normal is an applied AI company solving the hardest problems in AI and silicon.
- We build foundational hardware and software for the semiconductor industry, critical AI infrastructure, and the broader systems that power our world, in partnership with the world's most advanced institutions.
Equal Opportunity
- Normal Computing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
- Normal Computing is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations@normalcomputing.com.
- By submitting your application, you agree that Normal Computing may collect, use, and store your personal information for employment-related purposes in accordance with our Applicant Privacy Notice.