AI Engineer

Normal Computing Corp.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Normal Computing 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.

As an AI Engineer, you will ship real improvements to our production platform, working on systems that understand model architectures, reference models, and toolchains for chip design and verification. You will own end-to-end development and mentor others.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering production AI systems using language models.
• Strong Python and ML framework proficiency (PyTorch, Hugging Face).
• Solid software engineering skills and production-grade code.
• Experience with distributed systems and benchmarking ML models.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI development from concept to production deployment.
• Explore multi-agent, autoresearch and RL approaches for code generation.
• Design strategies for latency, variance, and error handling at scale.
• Collaborate with product teams to embed AI into the platform.
• Mentor junior engineers and establish best practices.

Skills

Python

Distributed systems

Production-grade code

Prompt engineering

Agentic coding workflows

Tools

PyTorch

Hugging Face

Transformers

VLLM

SGLang

Job description

Normal Computing | Build with Us

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. We work as one team across New York City, Silicon Valley (Mountain View), London, Copenhagen, and Seoul.

The Role

As an AI Engineer at Normal, you will build production systems that understand AI model architectures, technical documents and chip design & verification collateral like reference models, testbenches, FPGA emulation or analog simulations , and help build autoresearch loops, verifiers and infrastructure to optimize the design process.. You'll ship real improvements to our production platform while pushing the boundaries of what's possible in AI for hardware through reinforcement learning, agentic coding, and exceptional software engineering.

What You Will Own

• End-to-End Development: Lead AI development from initial concept through production deployment and iteration.

• Agentic Systems: Handle multi-modal complexity and explore multi-agent, autoresearch and RL approaches for agentic code generation and tool use, interacting with both physical and simulated rewards.

• Production Quality: Design strategies to manage latency, output variance, and graceful error handling at scale.

• Platform Integration: Collaborate with product and engineering teams to embed AI capabilities seamlessly into our platform.

• Mentorship: Guide junior engineers and establish best practices for AI development.

What Makes You a Great Fit

• Previous experience delivering production AI systems involving language models, preferably involving agentic coding workflows & tool use.

• Solid software engineering skills with experience in distributed systems, job scheduling and production-grade code

• Proficiency in Python and modern ML frameworks (PyTorch, Hugging Face, transformers)

• Experience with benchmarking and profiling different ML models, runtime configurations (VLLM/SGLang) and hardware architectures.

• Hands-on experience with prompt engineering, fine-tuning, and deploying large language models

• Ability to explain complex AI concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Bonus Points

• Experience with hardware design, hardware verification, or EDA tooling

• Experience deploying AI systems in mission-critical or high-stakes production environments

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) for large-scale AI infrastructure

• Research or applied experience with LLM agents, RL (offline/online, RLHF/RLAIF), constrained decoding, or program synthesis

• Open-source contributions or publications in AI/ML venues

• Skill in balancing cutting-edge innovation with production reliability and pragmatism

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

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.

Accessibility Accommodations

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 [e-mail].

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