Software Engineer, Backend

NORMAL COMPUTING | BUILD WITH US 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, San Francisco, London, Copenhagen, and Pangyo. THE ROLE Normal is building software for semiconductor engineers: a local CLI that works inside real chip design environments, a web product for managing projects and reviewing results, and backend services that coordinate long-running work across both. Making those pieces feel like one dependable product is a backend engineering problem. This role spans the backend surface behind that product. Depending on the project, you might design an API shared by several services, evolve a database model without breaking existing sessions, make a state transition idempotent, improve a local agent loop, or remove a deployment or performance bottleneck. The common thread is production software with real state, real failure modes, and users with complex workflows. We use AI in the product, but this is not an ML role and prior experience with agents is not required. We are looking for backend engineers who enjoy making complex systems clear, reliable, and easy to operate. WHAT YOU WILL OWN Your scope will depend on your experience, interests, and the team’s priorities.