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About the role
Work hands-on with thermodynamic hardware. Help design, simulate, characterize, or evaluate our hardware, where noise, analog dynamics, and in-memory computation are first-class design elements rather than sources of error to be engineered away. Design numerical methods for a new substrate. Explore algorithms and numerical methods that exploit thermal noise and analog dynamics directly, rather than adapting techniques built for conventional digital hardware.
What they're looking for
- You'll spend your residency embedded with the team building and characterizing our unconventional, thermodynamic computing hardware — silicon that exploits physical noise and analog dynamics rather than fighting them
More about this role
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 Thermodynamic Hardware Residency is Normal Computing's flagship program for exceptional researchers and engineers who want to work at the frontier of unconventional computing. Residents join a small, hand-picked cohort with a dedicated research mentor, direct access to the team building our cutting-edge thermodynamic hardware, and a clear arc from onboarding through publication.
Every residency is built around two milestones that mark you as part of something bigger than a single project: a research paper co-authored with our team, and a company-wide research colloquium where you present your findings to the full Normal Computing organization. You'll leave with a body of published, presented work, and a standing as one of the earliest residents to help define what this program becomes....
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