Software Engineer, Terminal Interface

Normal Computing | Build with Us

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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 Role

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Normal CLI is how semiconductor engineers do AI-assisted verification work. It is a large interactive terminal application, built in Python and Textual, that design verification engineers keep open all day, usually in environments we do not control: remote workstations inside chip companies, SSH sessions, tmux, Windows and WSL. Our users are accustomed to terminal products, and for many of them this is the first and only surface of Normal they will use. We expect that to remain true.

We are hiring the engineer who will own it as a product: productionizing what began as a research tool and giving it a dedicated end-user focus. You will own the interaction model and the information design — how people enter and edit instructions, how a long agent run stays legible while it streams, how tool use and proposed changes are presented for review, and how work is interrupted, resumed, and recovered after a failure. You will also own the local session client beneath it, and be a leading voice in the client API the rest of our product is built on.

The boundaries matter here. Our ML and research engineers keep the harness — the skills, tools, hooks, and model behavior that make the agent good at chip verification. You take the application those capabilities reach users through. You will sit on the product engineering team that also builds our desktop workbench, our web product, and our agent orchestration, so the terminal moves into the same product as everything else, with th