Senior Mechanical Engineer — AI Inference Hardware

Normal Computing Corporation; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Normal Computing is building AI inference hardware based on its Thermo In-Memory Computing architecture. As the founding mechanical engineer on our hardware team, you will shape the physical design from accelerator to rack, determining form factor, cooling, serviceability, and how components fit together.

You will work closely with silicon, systems, and deployment engineers and external partners to ensure design intent is met across the product lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Six or more years owning accelerator or server hardware, from prototype to production.
• Strong mechanical design skills with released drawings for manufacturing partners.
• Hands-on thermal design and validation for server hardware, with first-principles reasoning.

Responsibilities

• Own electromechanical design of inference hardware from configuration to deployable product.
• Define mechanical integration of compute, host platform, networking, and power in chassis.
• Validate airflow and thermals with fully populated systems.
• Set rack configuration, power distribution, and cabling layouts for standard/open formats.
• Own drawing and BOM releases, manufacturability reviews, and issue resolution during builds.
• Coordinate safety and EMC certification with the electrical team and test lab.

Skills

Mechanical design

Thermal analysis

FEA

Vendor management

Tools

SolidWorks

Creo

NX

FEA software

Job description

Normal Computing is building AI inference hardware based on its Thermo In-Memory Computing architecture. As the founding mechanical engineer on our hardware team, you will shape the physical design from accelerator to rack, determining form factor, cooling, serviceability, and how components fit together.

You will work closely with silicon, systems, and deployment engineers and external partners to ensure design intent is met across the product lifecycle.