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# Talent Operations Specialist at Normal Computing Corporation

- **Company:** Normal Computing Corporation
- **Location:** Silicon Valley
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/normalcomputing/dfe9ab4e-b624-4a33-9c6b-04a3de3fabe0

## 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

As our Talent Operations Specialist, you will own and scale the engine behind how Normal hires world-class talent across hardware, software, and AI. You sit at the strategic center of our global talent organization, acting as the right hand to our Head of Talent to build high-efficiency recruiting workflows, maintain our data integrity, and eliminate friction across five global time zones. At Normal, we operate in a fast-moving, highly evolving environment where priorities shift and ambiguity is constant. You are someone who thrives on context-switching—effortlessly pivoting between long-term system architecture and immediate operational priorities. Rather than just manually moving candidates through calendars, you take complete ownership of our talent infrastructure: optimizing Ashby, building real-time executive dashboards, automating scheduling flows, and ensuring our recruiting operation runs on rails as we scale.

## What You’ll Own

- Recruiting Systems & Ashby ATS Architecture: Serve as the primary admin for Ashby. Permission and seat management, pipeline stages, build custom candidate communication templates, configure auto-scheduling rules, and manage integrations across our tech stack (Slack, Notion, AI Notetaker, Google Workspace).
- Candidate Data Integrity and Compliance Operations: Own the day-to-day health of candidate data in Ashby. Maintain retention and consent configurations, execute scheduled record dispositions, monitor duplicate and fraud-flagged records, and keep candidate data practices aligned with Normal’s published privacy commitments across US and global applicants.
- Talent Analytics & Reporting: Build and maintain recruiting dashboards to track funnel conversion, candidate velocity, source effectiveness, and interviewer loads. Deliver data-backed insights to the Head of Talent and leadership to optimize hiring SLAs.
- Process Automation & AI Workflow Optimization: Evaluate, scope, and govern AI tools, automated scheduling logic, and low-code integrations to reduce admin overhead, improve response times, and elevate candidate experience.
- Interviewer & Hiring Manager Enablement: Partner with recruiting leads to standardize interview loops, establish scorecard guidelines, onboard new interviewers, and build clear Notion documentation for team-wide hiring practices.
- Global Logistics & Vendor Operations: Oversee candidate touchpoints and job board posting distribution across US, European, and APAC markets.
- Special Projects & Strategic Support: Partner directly with the Head of Talent on high-impact initiatives, including headcount planning support, talent brand launches, recruiting event logistics, and strategic ad-hoc projects.
- Interview Coordination (Backup and Surge): Provide secondary coverage for interview scheduling when volume spikes or primary coordination is unavailable. Roughly 15-20% of the role.

What Makes You a Great Fit

- Talent Ops or Advanced Coordination: You have experience in a fast-scaling tech startup, high-growth environment, or deep-tech company.
- Extreme Ownership & Accountability: You treat the recruiting engine as your own product. You flag problems while they are small, fix broken processes without being asked, and close loops relentlessly.
- Comfort with Context-Switching & Ambiguity: Highly adaptable and composed when priorities shift in a fast-paced, evolving startup environment.
- Mastery of ATS Infrastructure: Hands-on experience administering Ashby (or Greenhouse/Lever) with a track record of setting up structured pipelines, custom fields, offer workflows, and automated scheduling rules.
- Data-Fluent & Analytical: Comfortable working with recruiting metrics, building custom reports, identifying pipeline bottlenecks, and presenting data clearly to stakeholders.
- Systems & Automation Mindset: Passionate about documentation, process hygiene, and using modern tools (Slack, Notion, AI assistants, low-code automations) to replace manual administrative work.
- Global & Cross-Functional Comfort: Experienced in navigating multi-time-zone communication (US, Europe, APAC) with high attention to detail and proactive communication default.

Bonus Points

- Advanced experience specifically with Ashby
- Experience supporting fast-moving technology startups.
- Background in setting up interviewer calibration modules or candidate NPS loops

## 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 Privacy Policy.

## 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. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/normalcomputing](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/normalcomputing)

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