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Physical Design Manager

Normal Computing Corporation 🇺🇸 Palo Alto, California, United States of America

$200,000 - $400,000 Full-time Senior

Lead the end-to-end silicon realization path, managing the physical design team through synthesis, floorplanning, and tapeout. Drive backend implementation flows to meet aggressive power, performance, and area targets while collaborating with cross-functional architecture and RTL teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the end-to-end silicon realization path, managing the physical design team through synthesis, floorplanning, and tapeout. Drive backend implementation flows to meet aggressive power, performance, and area targets while collaborating with cross-functional architecture and RTL teams.

Requirements

  • Requires at least 7 years of managerial experience and a track record of at least 3 successful tapeouts from netlist to signoff. Candidates must possess deep expertise in industry-standard physical design tools and strong problem-solving skills for timing and physical verification.

Benefits

  • Equity

Key Skills

Physical design flow Synthesis Floorplanning Tapeout Power optimization Performance optimization Area optimization RTL‑to‑GDSII flow Timing analysis Physical verification EDA tools Cross‑functional collaboration Team leadership Problem solving Project management

About Normal Computing Corporation

At Normal, we're rewriting AI foundations to advance the frontier of reasoning and reliability in the physical world. We are tackling problems across semiconductors and industrials with a mix of interdisciplinary approaches across the full stack: from probabilistic software infrastructure and algorithms to hardware and physics, enabling AI that can reason and understand its own limits. We understand that our technology is only as powerful as the people behind it. Every employee drives significant impact within our products, often working directly with customers and embedding across our tightly-knit team. Our team members are driven by curiosity and passion for solving some of the most challenging problems in the world of atoms. Normal was founded in 2022 by engineers and scientists that pioneered industry-leading Physics + ML tools for next-gen AI at Google Brain and Google X.

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