Hardware Simulator Lead & Debug Tools Architect

Normal Computing Corporation; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Normal Computing is building the software and hardware stack for advanced AI and silicon, leading a new era of memory-bound computation alongside top institutions worldwide. As Simulator & Debug Tools Lead, you will own the hardware simulator, drive its accuracy, performance, and integration with the compiler and runtime teams.

You will decide how to allocate time across fidelity, speed, and tooling investments while guiding a cross-functional team through evolving hardware, providing practical,

Qualifications

• Experience building or leading development on hardware simulators for ASICs or novel compute architectures.
• Built debuggers, tracers, or profilers adopted by engineers.
• Has systems and compiler context to simulate the software stack on hardware.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and roadmap of our hardware simulator.
• Ensure simulator accuracy, performance, and feature coverage.
• Build the debuggers, tracers, and profilers engineers rely on.
• Coordinate hardware correlation with RTL, FPGA prototypes, and silicon.
• Create workload benchmarks from LLM inference workloads.
• Explain tradeoffs between fidelity, speed, and tooling to teams.

Skills

Hardware simulators

Debugger tools

Systems & compiler context

Adaptive to evolving hardware

C++/Rust

Python tooling

Tools

Python

Job description

Normal Computing is building the software and hardware stack for advanced AI and silicon, leading a new era of memory-bound computation alongside top institutions worldwide. As Simulator & Debug Tools Lead, you will own the hardware simulator, drive its accuracy, performance, and integration with the compiler and runtime teams.

You will decide how to allocate time across fidelity, speed, and tooling investments while guiding a cross-functional team through evolving hardware, providing practical,