Product Engineer, Terminal UI & Interactive CLI

Normal Computing Corporation; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Normal Computing seeks an engineer to own the Normal CLI, a Python/Textual terminal application used by semiconductor engineers for AI-assisted verification. You will own the interaction model, information design, and the local session client, shaping the runtime interface and ensuring consistency with other products.

You will sit with the product engineering team, aligning the terminal experience with our desktop workbench and agent orchestration.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time building and maintaining an interactive terminal application, TUI, or comparably rich local client — not command wrappers.
• Experience taking on an existing codebase and improving it without breaking what already worked.
• Familiarity with what makes terminal software hard: keyboard and text input, rendering performance, inconsistent terminal capabilities, process and signal handling, and behavior that differs across platforms and environments.

Responsibilities

• The terminal application: Information architecture and interaction across commands, navigation, input and editing, streamed output, progress, review, interruption, recovery, empty states, and errors that tell the user what to do next.
• Cross-platform behavior: Correct, fast behavior across terminals, shells, multiplexers, remote sessions, macOS, Linux, Windows and WSL, non-English input and IMEs, and constrained customer environments.
• The client boundary: The local session client, and a leading voice in the structured-event interface it consumes. You shape what the runtime emits so the UI does not have to infer intent from formatted text.
• Standards other contributors build against: Define the command, picker, progress, output, and review patterns that research and product engineers use when they add domain workflows, and keep the experience coherent as they do.
• Responsiveness under load: Streaming, cancellation, concurrency, and event-loop behavior for work that runs for a long time and must stay interruptible and understandable throughout.
• A coherent product across surfaces: Shared terminology, state, authentication, and handoffs between the terminal and the rest of our EDA product, so users moving between them do not have to learn two systems.

Skills

Python

Textual

Terminal UI

Job description

Normal Computing seeks an engineer to own the Normal CLI, a Python/Textual terminal application used by semiconductor engineers for AI-assisted verification. You will own the interaction model, information design, and the local session client, shaping the runtime interface and ensuring consistency with other products.

You will sit with the product engineering team, aligning the terminal experience with our desktop workbench and agent orchestration.