PCB CAD Design Engineer

Graphcore; Bristol; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading innovator in AI hardware based in Bristol is looking for a PCB CAD Designer to develop designs in close collaboration with engineers. The ideal candidate should have over four years of experience in PCB design, including schematic and layout management. This role offers a competitive salary, flexible working conditions, and a range of benefits including private medical insurance and a generous annual leave policy.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Flexible working

Generous annual leave policy

Qualifications

• Four or more years’ experience in PCB design.
• Experience with signal integrity and mechanical design tools.
• Proven ability to work in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Develop designs in collaboration with engineers.
• Define complex PCB stack ups and constraints.
• Liaise with procurement and manufacturing teams.

Skills

Schematic and layout component part library generation and management

Creating footprints to allow multi-sourced components

Design for manufacture, assembly, and test of the PCB

Basic knowledge of HDI PCB stackups

Experience working in a small team

Tools

Product Lifecycle Management tool (e.g., Arena)

Cadence PCB design flow

Job description

Graphcore is one of the world’s leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute.

It is developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure that will unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs and power the widespread adoption of AI solutions across every industry.

As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. Together, they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone.

Graphcore’s teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives. A melting pot of AI research specialists, silicon designers, software engineers and systems architects, Graphcore enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation.

The Team

Graphcore’s Hardware Engineering Team creates both products for sale in volume production and hardware test & validation systems.

These systems allow Graphcore’s customers to develop leading‑edge machine learning solutions for training and inference.

Reporting to the PCB CAD Team Lead, the PCB CAD Designer will be helping to design and develop the next generation PCB’s within Graphcore’s Hardware department.

What you’ll be doing

You will be developing designs in close collaboration with hardware, mechanical and signal integrity engineers within the department. You will be helping to define complex PCB stack ups and determine suitable constraints to be applied on the design in collaboration with our lead PCB Fabricators. You will be experienced in all aspects of PCB design from high power, multi‑phase power supplies to high‑speed digital design that includes SERDES, Ethernet, DDR and PCIE.

• Development of mass production, test and development PCBs and for Graphcore’s family of processors.
  Includes: -
• Schematic & Footprint library creation and management.
• Bill of Materials generation and version control.
• Liaison with procurement & manufacturing operations teams for new, obsolescent and end of life parts.
• PCB Manufacturing and assembly data pack generation.
• PCB Supplier liaison and management.
• PCB layout.

What you’ll bring

We appreciate not everyone will meet all of the criteria. If you meet most of the requirements below and believe you can bring value to this role, we’d love to hear from you.

Four or more years’ experience in:

• Schematic and layout component part library generation and management.
• Creating footprints to allow multi-sourced components.
• Assisting in-house design constraints to meet different assembly house rules.
• Design for manufacture, assembly, and test of the PCB.
• Parts list generation and version control, experience in a Product Lifecycle Management tool, such as Arena an advantage.
• Export of PCB design data for signal integrity, thermal & mechanical design tools.
• Generation & control of manufacturing data packs for PCB and assembly subcontractors.
• Mentor or Cadence PCB design flow for schematic capture, design constraints, PCB layout.
• Basic knowledge of HDI PCB stackups, via structures, controlled impedance signal routing.
• Understanding of layout techniques for the control of EMC, crosstalk and interference.
• Able to apply technical knowledge to make sure designs will work correctly the first time.
• Experience working in a small team in a startup environment, which requires a wide range of skills.
• An eagerness to participate in all parts of the development cycle from concept to supporting manufacture, assembly and customers.

What we’ll bring

In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working, a generous annual leave policy, private medical insurance and health cash plan, a dental plan, pension (matched up to 5%), life assurance and income protection. We have a generous parental leave policy and an employee assistance programme (which includes health, mental wellbeing, and bereavement support). We offer a range of healthy food and snacks at our central Bristol office and have our own barista bar! We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we’re committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments.

Applicants for this position must hold the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately at this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or support for visa applications.