Normal Computing · 23 hours ago
AI Research Engineer
Copenhagen, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Senior LevelNormal Computing builds foundational software and hardware that support the semiconductor industry and critical AI infrastructure. They are seeking an AI Research Engineer to design experiments, build agents, curate datasets, and create evaluations for their agentic code generation tool, nectar.
AI InfrastructureArtificial Intelligence (AI)Generative AISemiconductor
Responsibilities
Design and implement multi‑agent and RL approaches for agentic code generation and tool‑use
Build research prototypes that integrate with nectar; collaborate to productionize wins
Create evaluation suites: task specs, pass/fail checkers, coverage, cost/latency dashboards
Acquire and curate datasets from PDFs/logs/tables; generate synthetic data where appropriate; maintain data cards and licensing
Analyze experiments with disciplined ablations; document results and decisions
Stay current on LLM agents, RL (offline/online, RLHF/RLAIF), constrained decoding, and program synthesis
Qualification
Required
PhD in CS/AI/ML (or equivalent research experience) with publications ideally in multi‑agent RL, agentic AI, or RL for language/code
Strong Python and ML framework experience (PyTorch preferred; JAX/HF a plus)
Demonstrated ability to turn research into working systems; reproducibility mindset (tests, seeds, configs, logging)
Experience designing eval harnesses and success metrics for sequential/agentic tasks
Comfortable with data acquisition/curation from documents/logs; good instincts about data quality and licenses
Preferred
Research on program synthesis/codegen, constrained decoding, or execution‑based rewards
Experience with offline RL from tool traces or human corrections
Open‑source contributions (e.g., CleanRL, RLlib, AutoGen, LangGraph, CrewAI, Transformers)
Familiarity with semiconductor/chip domains or other complex technical specs
Track record of shipping research to production and measuring impact
Company
Normal Computing
AI for our most pressing crises in silicon.
Founded in 2022
11-50 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$34.02MKey Investors
ARIACelesta Capital,First Spark VenturesIntel Ignite
2024-10-31Grant
2024-10-01Series Unknown· $25.5M
2023-01-09Seed· $8.52M
Leadership Team
Faris Sbahi
Co-Founder, CEO
Matthias Tan
Co-Founder, COO
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