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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.

Your Role in Our Mission

We’re hiring a Research Engineer to push the frontier of agentic LLMs and reinforcement learning for pushing the capabilities of Normal EDA, our agentic AI platform for semiconductor design automation. You’ll design and run experiments, build agents, curate datasets from complex technical artifacts, and create rigorous evaluations. You’ll write production-quality research code and work closely with engineering to ship improvements to customers.

Responsibilities

• Build multi-agent systems for code generation that interact with EDA tools (e.g., simulations, waveform analysis, formal tools, physical design tools), propose fixes, and iterate through all stages of chip design and verification flows.
• Build research prototypes that integrate with our production agentic code generation tool; collaborate to productionize wins.
• Create RL environments and evaluations for agents, explore proxy rewards and consider speed/accuracy tradeoffs of custom tools.
• Generate datasets from silicon collateral (e.g., RTL, testbenches, custom VIPs) sources such as RTL designs/VIPs/chip specifications/agent logs; generate synthetic data where appropriate; maintain data cards and licensing.
• Analyze experiments with disciplined ablations; document results and drive progress with technical rigour.
• Stay current on LLM agents, RL (offline/online, RLHF/RLAIF), constrained decoding, and program synthesis.