Silicon Infrastructure Engineer: Python & EDA

Fractile; West of England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity & Ownership

Benefits: Private Medical, Dental and

Diverse & inclusive environment

Job summary

Fractile is building next‑gen silicon infrastructure to accelerate frontier AI workloads. As a Silicon Infrastructure Engineer, you will create and support Python tooling and silicon verification workflows centred around silicon EDA tooling, while improving build systems and workflows across teams.

You will work with Bazel and other tools, optimize workloads on a compute grid, and collaborate with engineering to scale our silicon stack using Docker/Kubernetes, Terraform, and monitoring with

Qualifications

• Experience of silicon EDA tooling
• Experience working with build systems tooling, such as Bazel.
• Experience working with workload management tools, such as Slurm.
• Experience working with container orchestration tools, such as Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Experience working with infrastructure as code, such as Ansible, or Terraform and maintaining compute infrastructure
• Experience of setup and monitor observation tooling for resource utilisation, machine failures, and more (e.g. Prometheus/Zabbix)
• Proficient in modern software development language(s) especially Python
• Proficient dealing with modern build systems e.g. Bazel, Pants
• Past experience with diagnosing and resolving network/storage/CPU/RAM bottlenecks across complex workloads.
• Experience deploying and managing a grid compute system (Slurm/LSF/SGE).
• Proficiency with containerisation frameworks (Docker/Singularity)

Responsibilities

• Create and support Python tooling and silicon verification and physical design workflows centred around silicon EDA tooling, which will require coding and build-system knowledge to assist with tasks faced by different teams.
• Bazel build system support for new silicon EDA tools required for throughout the chip lifecycle
• Create and improve Python developer tools across frontend and backend silicon teams
• Improve existing workflows to make them cacheable and reproducible
• Work with the engineering team to build and optimise their workloads

Skills

Python

Bazel

diagnosing bottlenecks

grid compute systems

containerisation

Tools

silicon EDA tooling

Bazel

Slurm

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Terraform

Prometheus/Zabbix

Pants

Singularity

Job description

Fractile is building next‑gen silicon infrastructure to accelerate frontier AI workloads. As a Silicon Infrastructure Engineer, you will create and support Python tooling and silicon verification workflows centred around silicon EDA tooling, while improving build systems and workflows across teams.

You will work with Bazel and other tools, optimize workloads on a compute grid, and collaborate with engineering to scale our silicon stack using Docker/Kubernetes, Terraform, and monitoring with