Senior Silicon PD Engineer - 7nm+, Flexible Working

Graphcore; Bristol; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Annual leave policy

Private medical insurance

Dental plan

Pension (matched up to 5%)

Life assurance

Income protection

Parental leave policy

Employee assistance programme

Healthy snacks and barista bar at the

Job summary

Graphcore is seeking silicon physical design engineers to contribute to our next generation of AI superchips. You will work on robust, high-performance and power-efficient designs using leading-edge process technologies, collaborating with multiple teams to reach sign-off quality.

We value willingness to take ownership, proactive communication and a continuous improvement mindset. Join Graphcore's Bristol team in an open, collaborative environment where engineers influence flows, methodologies

Qualifications

• A Degree in Electronic/Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related subject
• Be highly motivated, a self-starter, and a team player
• Enjoy taking responsibility and improving skills and knowledge
• Excellent problem-solving skills for debugging issues seen and finding root causes
• Ability to program/script (required to solve design issues, typically in Tcl and Python)
• Experience in 7nm or smaller technologies
• A good breadth of experience with physical design flows including: Floorplanning/Budgeting, Synthesis, Place and Route, Clock CTS, Timing Analysis, Logical Equivalence, Physical Verification (DRC/LVS/ERC)
• Team management
• Project Planning

Responsibilities

• Using state-of-the-art EDA tools and in-house Graphcore flows to deliver final designs that are of sign-off quality
• Enhancing existing flows and in-house tools/APIs to support new features and/or methodologies
• Analysis and/or debugging of complex engineering problems leading to workable solutions
• Developing an understanding of emerging technical issues and applying that knowledge to optimise in-house flows and methodologies

Skills

Self-motivated

Team player

Problem solving

Communication

Adaptability

Ownership

Education

Bachelors in Electronic/Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Tcl

Python

Job description

Graphcore is seeking silicon physical design engineers to contribute to our next generation of AI superchips. You will work on robust, high-performance and power-efficient designs using leading-edge process technologies, collaborating with multiple teams to reach sign-off quality.

We value willingness to take ownership, proactive communication and a continuous improvement mindset. Join Graphcore's Bristol team in an open, collaborative environment where engineers influence flows, methodologies