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Normal Computing is an applied AI company building foundational hardware and software for the semiconductor industry, with a focus on custom silicon for AI inference. The company operates across New York City, Silicon Valley (Mountain View), London, Copenhagen, and Seoul.
As Head of Silicon Product Engineering, you will own the complete journey from silicon design validation through high-volume manufacturing. This is a foundational build role where you will establish the team, vendor relationships, and processes that take Normal's silicon from tape-out to production at scale.
Key responsibilities include:
- Post-Silicon Strategy: Lead end-to-end bring-up, characterization, validation, and debug across multiple silicon generations.
- Packaging & Test: Define and drive packaging and test strategy, including ATE program development, test coverage, and test condition optimization for yield, quality, and performance.
- OSAT & Test-House Selection: Select, qualify, and manage OSAT and test-house partners; own relationships through NPI and high-volume manufacturing, including cost, quality, and yield negotiations.
- Yield & Qualification: Lead yield learning and qualification efforts from early silicon through production ramp, including root-cause analysis of systematic and random failures.
- Production Calibration & Screening: Own production calibration and screening methodology for memory products, ensuring performance and reliability targets are met at volume.
- Team Build: Build and lead a high-performing silicon product engineering organization from the ground up, including hiring, process, and tooling.
- Cross-Functional Feasibility: Partner with design, architecture, and supply chain teams to ensure designs are producible, testable, and optimized for cost and yield.
- Data Infrastructure: Build data analysis practices to catch failure mechanisms early using characterization and manufacturing data from wafer acceptance testing, sort, package, and system-level test.
You will work at the intersection of design, manufacturing, and product, setting precedent by establishing test and calibration methodology for a new silicon program as it matures toward volume.
Requirements:
- 15+ years in semiconductor product/test engineering, with direct ownership of silicon from NPI through high-volume manufacturing.
- Proven experience selecting and managing OSAT and foundry partners, including cost, quality, and yield negotiations.
- Deep hands-on background in packaging, ATE, and post-silicon bring-up and validation.
- Experience with production test and screening methodology for complex, high-reliability products.
- Track record of building and scaling engineering teams from early stage.
- Strong cross-functional fluency with design, architecture, and supply chain organizations.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering or a related field.
Bonus qualifications:
- Experience bringing up test and qualification for a new or unconventional silicon architecture.
- Experience with memory-adjacent product engineering (DRAM, HBM, or custom memory modules).
- Experience at an AI or high-performance compute startup where design, verification, and product engineering worked in tight iteration cycles.
- Comfort operating in an environment where test methodology is still being invented alongside the hardware.
