Flexible Hardware Design & Signal Integrity Summer Internship

Graphcore; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

5 days of annual leave

On-site office environment with free食品

Job summary

Graphcore offers a 12‑week summer internship in Bristol, UK, delivering hands‑on experience on real projects within hardware design and signal integrity. You’ll tackle clearly scoped tasks, learn to work with professional tools, and contribute to ongoing AI compute platforms.

You’ll join a collaborative team with mentorship and opportunities to develop practical engineering skills, with a chance to progress to graduate programs based on performance.

Qualifications

• Currently studying towards a degree in Electronic Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics or a closely related technical discipline.
• Strong electrical and electronic engineering foundations, with an interest in hardware design or signal integrity and how real electronic systems work.
• A logical, first‑principles approach to unfamiliar problems, with practical engineering experience from university projects, laboratory work, personal projects or activities such as Formula Student, robotics or engineering societies.
• The ability to work with measurements or technical data and explain your conclusions clearly, with curiosity, willingness to take ownership and openness to feedback and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Explore the electronic hardware behind Graphcore’s AI compute platforms.
• Contribute to hardware design or signal integrity tasks with clearly scoped design, analysis, validation or debugging work.
• Support schematic and circuit design, PCB development, board bring‑up or laboratory testing in Hardware Design.
• Review PCB layouts, analyze interconnects, and compare simulations with measurements in Signal Integrity.

Skills

Electrical foundations

Hardware design interest

Signal integrity interest

Measurement & data interpretation

Education

Engineering degree in Electronics/EE/Computer Engineering/Physics

Tools

Mentor Expedition

Ansys HFSS

Keysight ADS

Job description

Graphcore offers a 12‑week summer internship in Bristol, UK, delivering hands‑on experience on real projects within hardware design and signal integrity. You’ll tackle clearly scoped tasks, learn to work with professional tools, and contribute to ongoing AI compute platforms.

You’ll join a collaborative team with mentorship and opportunities to develop practical engineering skills, with a chance to progress to graduate programs based on performance.