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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.\nThe Role\nNormal's hardware runs the most memory-bound parts of large-model inference inside memory itself, rather than shuttling weights to a processor. The software that makes this programmable doesn't exist yet in any standard form. Our compiler is how models reach that hardware, and new LLM architectures show up faster than most compilers can track. A new attention variant, MoE routing scheme, or quantization approach has to be represented faithfully in our compiler before it can run, let alone run fast. As a Compiler Engineer focused on frontend and model bring-up, you will extend our IR, ops, and lowering passes so new LLM architectures are supported before a customer asks for them.\nThis is a research-adjacent seat: you are expected to follow the literature closely, and publish on behalf of Normal. Our chip is pre-silicon, so you will validate bring-up against our simulators and FPGA prototypes first, so that models are ready to run when silicon arrives.\nWhat You Will Own\nModel Bring-up: Bring up frontend and mid-level support for new LLM architectures in our compiler, from attention variants to MoE routing schemes. Success means new architectures run correctly on our stack soon after release, ahead of customer demand.\n\nIR and Lowering: Extend our IR, ops, and lowering passes to represent new architectural primitives faithfully rather than approximately, with test coverage that keeps them correct as the compiler evolves.\n\nQuantization and Numerics: Represent the quantization schemes and numeric formats new models use, so lowering preserves model accuracy.\n\nArchitecture Tracking: Track the LLM architecture landscape closely enough to recommend what the team brings up next.\n\nCross-Team Handoffs: Hand lowered programs to the backend compiler engineers who map them onto our hardware, and work with our LLM serving engineer to take new models from compiler support to serving.\n\nWhat Makes You a Great Fit\nHands-on ML compiler experience: you have written and shipped compiler passes\n\nDeep familiarity with PyTorch internals, ideally including its compilation stack (TorchDynamo, FX, torch.export)\n\nWorking knowledge of modern LLM architectures at the level of attention mechanisms, MoE routing, and quantization schemes\n\nPatience for the unglamorous part of the job: getting a new architecture from “runs” to “runs correctly” to “runs correctly and fast”\n\nComfort designing compiler infrastructure in a young codebase as well as extending an established one\n\nComfort building software for hardware that is still evolving, from simulation through bring-up\n\nFluency in Python, and familiarity with C++ or Rust\n\nBonus Points\nExperience with other ML compilers, such as IREE, XLA, or TVM\n\nFamiliarity with other ML frameworks and graph formats, such as JAX or ONNX\n\nExperience partitioning models across devices with tensor, pipeline, or expert parallelism\n\nExperience with hardware-software co-design\n\nExperience with non-standard or in-memory hardware targets\n\nContributions to open-source compiler or ML infrastructure projects\n\nEqual Employment Opportunity Statement\nNormal Computing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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