Senior Software Engineer (Python/ Automation)

Imagination Technologies; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Python and automation. This role offers the chance to join a dynamic team dedicated to creating a cutting-edge automated tool stack for GPU and AI hardware. As a key member, you will help shape the team's culture while tackling complex challenges and optimizing workflows. If you're passionate about technology and eager to make an impact, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in developing performant software solutions in Python 3.
• Ability to write and debug shell scripts.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain a scalable build system for multiple languages.
• Integrate and optimize external vendor EDA tools.

Skills

Python 3

Shell Scripting

Test-Driven Development

Continuous Integration

Problem Solving

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Bazel

Docker

Jenkins

EDA Tools

Job description

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The role

Our GPU & AI hardware teams need an industry-leading automated tool stack to produce our upcoming IP roadmap – so the ‘Hardware Tools & Flows’ team has been created to ensure that we have a hyper-fast, resilient build system that optimizes tool use, scales with our needs, and continually maximises simulation workloads on our distributed compute grid.

The role

Our GPU & AI hardware teams need an industry-leading automated tool stack to produce our upcoming IP roadmap – so the ‘Hardware Tools & Flows’ team has been created to ensure that we have a hyper-fast, resilient build system that optimizes tool use, scales with our needs, and continually maximises simulation workloads on our distributed compute grid.

As a founding member of our team, you are joining us at a start of a revolution – with your technical expertise, innovation mindset, and ‘get stuff done’ attitude, you’ll help us shape our team culture, and define our tools, design principles and standards.

Our team has no bureaucracy – we don’t have unnecessary meetings, committees, or ceremonies. We have big, complex problems to solve, and we are building a team of pioneering, self-organising people who love to collaborate and get things done

You will:

• Help create and maintain a lightning-fast, resilient, scalable build system that templates, renders and compiles many languages for many targets – and feeds machine learning algorithms with data about its operation.
• Ruthlessly optimise, refactor, and deprecate existing production tools, flows, scripts
• Integrate and optimise use of external-vendor EDA tools & suites
• Improve and maintain continuous integration/ delivery pipelines for our work
• Profile, optimise and debug our simulation workloads to improve performance
• Work with design & verification architects to understand & refine requirements
• Design & support tool flows that create an amazing experience for our engineers
  
  
  

About You

Committed to making your customers, stakeholders and colleagues successful, you’re an excellent communicator, listener and collaborator who builds trusted partnerships by delivering what you say, when you say. You’re curious, solutions orientated and a world-class problem solver who constantly seeks opportunities to innovate and achieve the best possible outcome to the highest imaginable standard.

You are demonstrably:

• Capable of developing performant software solutions in Python 3 on Unix
• Able to write shell scripts and debug them
• Aware of development principles/ systems such as test-driven-development, continuous integration, software architecture, and revision control solutions
• Able to work with customers and colleagues to refine requirements into production code
• Excited by working through complex problems
• Great to work with; lifting the spirits of the team around you
  
  
  

You may have experience of, or an excitement to learn, one or more of the following:

• Build systems (e.g. Bazel, Nextflow, FuseSoC)
• Hardware EDA tools (eg. simulation, linting, synthesis)
• Systemverilog, C/C++, Simulator DPI/VPI
• Containerization (eg. Docker)
• Distributed Compute, Orchestration
• Jenkins Automation
• Software templating, rendering
• Data Engineering/ Data Science/ Machine Learning
  
  
  

Who We Are

Imagination is a UK-based company that creates silicon and software IP designed to give its customers an edge in competitive global technology markets. Its GPU and AI technologies enable outstanding power, performance, and area (PPA), fast time-to-market, and lower total cost of ownership. Products based on Imagination IP are used by billions of people across the globe in their smartphones, cars, homes, and workplaces.

We need your skills to help us continue to deliver technology that will impress the industry and our customers alike, ensuring that people everywhere can enjoy smarter and faster tech than ever before.

So come join us if you're wanting that something more

Bring your talent, curiosity and expertise and we’ll help you do the rest. You’ll be part of one of the world’s most exciting companies who are one of the leaders in semiconductor IP solutions.

As a part of our team, you can help us transform, innovate, and inspire the lives of millions through our technology.

Additional Information

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Semiconductor Manufacturing

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