--- title: 'Platform Engineer at Normal Computing Corporation' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/platform-engineer-normal-computing-corporation-silicon-valley-vz152nhsh8vd' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-15' --- # Platform Engineer at Normal Computing Corporation - **Company:** Normal Computing Corporation - **Location:** Silicon Valley - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-10-13 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/normalcomputing/2a2220d4-de5b-4456-8d08-cd8bfbcf62d5 ## 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 We’re hiring a Platform Engineer to own and evolve the critical infrastructure that powers Normal’s engineering organization. While our infrastructure is distributed across multiple locations, this position involves managing the local physical infrastructure (network, servers) and requires regular on-site presence in Mountain View and occasional travels to the New York office. This is a senior, hands-on individual contributor role for someone with deep systems knowledge and broad infrastructure experience. You’ll work across Linux systems, networking, storage, security, automation, deployment infrastructure, and open-source tooling, taking ownership of complex systems and solving problems that don’t always fit neatly into one technical domain. We’re looking for someone who understands infrastructure from the ground up, has strong technical judgment, and is comfortable operating independently in a fast-moving startup environment. Leadership is not required, impact through technical depth, ownership, and execution is. ## What You Will Own - Own, operate, and improve critical infrastructure and internal systems across Normal. - Build and maintain physical network and server infrastructure. - Design and implement reliable, maintainable, and secure infrastructure across a broad technical surface area. - Diagnose complex systems issues spanning Linux, networking, storage, security, applications, and deployment infrastructure. - Automate operational workflows while maintaining a deep understanding of the underlying systems. - Make thoughtful, high-impact changes to sensitive production and company infrastructure. - Improve the reliability, observability, maintainability, and security of our systems. - Evaluate, deploy, and contribute to open-source infrastructure technologies. - Build documentation and operational practices that allow infrastructure knowledge to scale across a distributed team. - Partner with engineers across the company to solve infrastructure challenges and support Normal’s continued growth. What Makes You a Great Fit - 8–10+ years of experience in system administration, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, SRE, DevOps, or equivalent hands-on systems work. - Deep knowledge of Linux and/or BSD, and systems administration fundamentals. - Strong experience across multiple infrastructure domains, including networking, storage, operating systems, security, deployment systems, virtualization/containers, configuration management, and observability. - Significant experience working with open-source infrastructure technologies and ecosystems. - Strong programming or scripting skills for infrastructure automation. - Excellent troubleshooting instincts and the ability to investigate complex or unfamiliar systems problems from first principles. - Demonstrated ability to independently own critical infrastructure and make safe, high-impact technical decisions. - Experience operating in environments where systems aren't already perfectly built, documented, or organized. - Strong written communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across a distributed team. - A desire to remain a deeply technical, hands-on individual contributor. Bonus Points - Meaningful contributions to open-source infrastructure projects. - An active GitHub or similar profile demonstrating original technical work. - Participation in technical mailing lists, forums, or open-source communities. - Technical writing, documentation, or a personal blog demonstrating strong systems knowledge and clear communication. - Experience building and operating infrastructure in an early-stage or high-growth startup environment. - Experience owning infrastructure across a particularly broad technical surface area rather than specializing in a single system. ## 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 accommodations@normalcomputing.com. Privacy Notice By submitting your application, you agree that Normal Computing may collect, use, and store your personal information for employment-related purposes in accordance with our [Applicant Privacy Notice](https://normalcomputing.com/applicant-privacy-notice). ## About Normal Computing Corporation ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Normal Computing builds AI-accelerated EDA software and physics-based ASICs to enable ultra-efficient hardware for the AI era. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B; total funding $92.5M) - **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Faris Sbahi (CEO), Matthias Tan (Co-Founder), and team of former Google Brain/Google X engineers and scientists ## Core Business - Primary industry: Semiconductor design (EDA) and custom silicon (ASICs), powered by AI and probabilistic computing. - Target customers: Large semiconductor design and manufacturing institutions (B2B, enterprise). - Mission: "Rewriting AI foundations to advance the frontier of reasoning and reliability in the physical world" and enabling a virtuous cycle of self-improving AI hardware. ## Products & Services - **[Normal EDA](https://normalcomputing.com/)**: An AI-driven electronic design automation platform that understands design intent from specification documents, generates hierarchical test plans with traceability, creates SystemVerilog stimulus, runs simulations, and tracks coverage. It continuously learns from team feedback to accelerate verification for complex chip designs. - **[Normal ASICs](https://normalcomputing.com/)**: Physics-based custom ASICs that relax traditional computing assumptions (stochastic, stateful, asynchronous) to unlock orders-of-magnitude more efficient compute. Designed to converge hardware with the physical dynamics of AI models. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed. - **Key Metric**: **Total Funding** – $92.5M across multiple rounds (Seed, Venture, Grant, Series B). Notable recent round: $50M led by **Samsung Catalyst** in March 2026 [normalcomputing.com](https://normalcomputing.com/). - **Notable Investors**: Samsung Catalyst Fund, Intel Ignite, First Spark Ventures, Celesta Capital, ARIA. Also partners with Fraunhofer IESE (DRAMBench benchmark). - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew **196.3% YoY** to 54 employees; operates across 6 countries (US, UK, Denmark, Switzerland, India, Canada); actively building open-source tools (e.g., a Verilog simulator built with AI: 580K lines in 43 days). ## Competitive Advantages - **Physics-First Approach**: Unlike traditional digital logic, Normal’s ASICs embrace stochastic, stateful, and asynchronous computing – aligning hardware with the physics of AI models for dramatic efficiency gains. - **Full-Stack Co-Design**: The combination of AI-native EDA tools and custom silicon creates a closed loop where software and hardware are co-optimized, shortening time-to-market and enabling workload-specific ASICs. - **Deep AI Heritage**: Founders and team hail from Google Brain and Google X, bringing deep expertise in probabilistic ML, quantum AI, and physical-world reasoning. ## Strategic Focus - **Scaling EDA Adoption**: Expanding Normal EDA’s use among top semiconductor companies to "make chip design look more like software". - **AI Hardware Energy Crisis**: Tackling soaring power demands of AI by delivering ultra-efficient ASICs that can be produced for every workload. - **Open-Source & Research**: Building community trust through open benchmarks (DRAMBench) and tools (CIRCT-based verification), while advancing formal methods and AI-driven simulation. ## Why Work Here - **Hybrid Workspace**: Flexible in-office collaboration at offices in **New York (Flatiron HQ)**, **San Francisco**, **London**, and **Copenhagen**. In-person collaboration is valued but with flexibility; free lunch, snacks, and beverages in office. - **Lean, High-Impact Team**: Small team (54 employees) where every member drives significant impact, works directly with customers, and owns meaningful parts of the product. - **Interdisciplinary Challenges**: Work spans AI, probabilistic software, hardware, physics, and full-stack engineering – ideal for curious, passionate problem-solvers. - **Strong Growth Trajectory**: Rapid headcount growth (+196% YoY), recent $50M Series B, and partnerships with industry giants signal a well-funded, high-potential startup. ## Sources 1. [normalcomputing.com](https://normalcomputing.com/) 2. [normalcomputing.com/about](https://normalcomputing.com/about) 3. [linkedin.com/company/normal-computing-corporation](https://www.linkedin.com/company/normal-computing-corporation) 4. [builtin.com/company/normal-computing](https://builtin.com/company/normal-computing) 5. 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