Silicon Physical Design Engineer
GraphcoreBristol, England, United Kingdom • Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Posted October 23, 2025
Full Time
About the Company
Graphcore is at the forefront of artificial intelligence compute with its Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), a uniquely architected processor designed to accelerate machine learning models by orders of magnitude. The company's 3D Wafer-on-Wafer Bow IPU systems enable groundbreaking AI research and innovation across various applications, including language processing, computer vision, and graph neural networks. Graphcore aims to become the global standard for AI compute, transforming industries from healthcare to autonomous vehicles through its advanced technology.
Job Description
Graphcore is seeking high-quality silicon physical design engineers to join their existing team. The team focuses on developing next-generation AI superchips, collaborating with other teams like RTL, architecture, and packaging, and ensuring high-quality designs. The role involves working with EDA tools and in-house flow optimization to achieve robust, high-performance, and power-efficient designs.
Requirements
- A Degree in Electronic/Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related subject
- Highly motivated, a self-starter, and a team player
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Programming/scripting skills (Tcl and Python)
- 5nm or smaller technologies experience
- Solid understanding of physical design flows
- Good breadth of experience with physical design flows
- In depth expertise in one or more aspects of physical design flows
- Team management
- Project Planning
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Flexible working
- Private medical insurance and health cash plan
- Dental plan
- Pension (matched up to 5%)
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- Employee assistance programme