SlipstreamJobs tracks this role from the company's public career site. Apply directly on the employer's site.
Normal Computing is an applied AI company building foundational hardware and software for the semiconductor industry and critical AI infrastructure. The company operates across New York City, Silicon Valley (Mountain View), London, Copenhagen, and Seoul.
As a Firmware Engineer, you will develop low-level software for the company's custom System-on-Chip (SOC) to create an interface between physics-inspired ASICs and higher software layers. Your primary responsibilities include:
- Developing firmware for an embedded processor on the SOC that provides an API layer enabling upper software levels to exercise AI acceleration hardware
- Collaborating with hardware and software design teams to understand architectures and specify API requirements
- Creating and configuring the firmware development environment, including compilers, simulators, and debuggers across multiple environments (software simulation, RTL simulation, and physical hardware)
- Developing verification and stress test plans to ensure production-quality firmware
- Debugging across various prototyping and ASIC environments
This role emphasizes applying deep firmware expertise to novel silicon and software stacks that compute differently from conventional systems. You will own the full stack from development environment setup through production verification, working at the critical interface between hardware and software.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 5+ years of firmware development experience
- Demonstrated experience specifying and creating firmware development environments for shipping products
- Expertise in various firmware languages and target architectures
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills
BONUS QUALIFICATIONS:
- RISC-V experience
- FPGA and in-circuit debug expertise
- Experience with AI acceleration hardware
- Hands-on use of LLMs or agentic tools in development workflows
