Graphcore

You will be joining Graphcore, a globally recognized leader in Artificial Intelligence computing systems, as a Senior Technical Program Manager focusing on post-silicon validation and bring-up. Your role will involve bridging the technical and management domains, driving critical programs from preparation through execution of post-silicon validation and bring-up. Collaboration with development managers, engineers, and multi-functional teams will be crucial for the flawless delivery of silicon projects. **Key Responsibilities:** - **Program Leadership and Execution:** - Own the planning, development, and management of project schedules and deliverables - Ensure meticulous management of tasks, dependencies, and breakthroughs to achieve program objectives on schedule - **Design and Scope Management:** - Actively participate in crucial design reviews - Efficiently handle scope changes to minimize impacts on project timelines and outcomes - **Multi-functional Collaboration:** - Serve as the primary liaison for the technical team in multi-functional discussions, ensuring alignment on project requirements - **Risk Management:** - Proactively identify risks and dependencies, develop mitigation strategies, and inform/escalate issues - **Communication:** - Provide regular updates on program status, highlighting challenges and proposing solutions to internal partners - **Continuous Improvement:** - Leverage insights and standard processes from completed programs to drive continuous improvement in processes and outcomes for future projects **Qualifications Required:** - BSc or higher in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or other relevant Applied Science/Engineering discipline - 8+ years of relevant experience, including at least 3 years in a technical program management role, ideally within multi-functional teams - Proven experience in SoC design/architecture and post-silicon validation flows - Ability to navigate system integration complexities at the convergence of Silicon, System, and Software - Highly self-motivated and proactive individual, with critical thinking and problem-solving abilities - Outstanding communication and organizational skills, capable of articulating complex technical issues and their solutions - Strong Cross-functional team management, interpersonal skills, and adaptive communication style **Desirable Skills:** - Understanding of AI System-level platforms and their interactions - Detailed understanding of datacentre and/or consumer electronics design, including critical interfaces In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers a comprehensive benefits package. The company values diversity and inclusion, providing an equal opportunity process and encouraging an inclusive work environment for all employees. Flexibility in the interview process is available, with accommodations for reasonable adjustments.,

You will be working as a silicon logical design engineer within the logical design team at Graphcore, a globally recognized leader in Artificial Intelligence computing systems. Your role will involve a wide range of tasks related to logical design, including delivering high-quality microarchitecture and RTL for Graphcore chips. You will collaborate with other engineers within the Silicon team to implement the chip architecture specification and ensure the company objectives for Silicon delivery are met. **Key Responsibilities:** - Producing high-quality microarchitecture and RTL for Graphcore chips - Ensuring good communication between sites - Contributing to shared design infrastructure and flows - Using EDA tools and the Graphcore design flow to design in cutting-edge technologies - Leading and/or contributing to final chip-level checks and auditing - Providing feedback to Physical Design, Verification, and DFT teams **Qualifications Required:** - Logical design experience in the relevant industry - Highly motivated, a self-starter, and a team player - Ability to work across teams and debug issues to find root causes - Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject - Programming skills required to solve design issues (e.g., Python, Tcl) - SystemVerilog knowledge - Knowledge of digital design flows **Desirable Skills:** - Processor design - Application-specific blocks - High-speed serial interfaces - Complex third-party IP integration - Arithmetic pipeline design - Floating-point design - Design for test - Synthesis - Timing Analysis - Project Planning - Power Integrity - Silicon transistor Graphcore offers a competitive salary and benefits package. The company is committed to building an inclusive work environment that welcomes people of different backgrounds and experiences. A flexible approach to interviews is provided, and reasonable adjustments are encouraged.,

Multiple roles across different levels Graphcore is a globally recognised leader in Artificial Intelligence computing systems. The company designs advanced semiconductors and data centre hardware that provide the specialised processing power needed to drive AI innovation, while delivering the efficiency required to support its broader adoption. As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the worlds most transformative technologies. We are opening a new AI Engineering Campus in Bengaluru which will play a central role in Graphcore's work building the future of AI computing. We are looking for a Characterisation and Bring-Up engineer to work with Architecture, Silicon Engineering, Hardware Engineering, Operations (device manufacture) and Product teams to help create and execute the bring-up and characterisation of our cutting-edge silicon devices and system platforms. Graphcore design and develop leading edge silicon processors and high-power high-speed blade systems at the forefront of AI technology. As such you will need to develop a detailed understanding of our silicon and platform products.Your role will be to create and execute bring-up and characterisation plans of our silicon devices in systems to show that they will operate correctly over all conditions in the final product. You will concentrate on automated and manual testing of systems in the lab and datacentre. The results will be integrated with data from other teams to provide the complete characterisation solution for the product. For example, a large amount of device testing can be performed by the production test team using high-speed production test equipment. Responsibilities and Duties Understand the architecture and design of silicon devices and systems, and clearly document the requirements for characterisation Creation of product specific characterisation plans Liasing with engineering teams to understand what are tests are available for characterisation purposes and driving change where appropriate Create and maintain an automated system for running characterisation testing, capturing the results to a central database and performing data analysis Execution of manual characterisation tests where automation is not appropriate Report regularly on progress and issues during the characterisation Produce characterisation reports containing platform test results and feeding them up into the overall product characterisation report Essential skills A proven track record of delivering technical output, perhaps as an individual contributor, manager, or project manager Solid experience and understanding of silicon digital device design characterisation Knowledge of silicon process technology and how that impacts device performance at transistor and system level Knowledge of high-performance processor and system-on-chip systems Experience of high-speed digital interfaces, such as PCIe, Ethernet or DDR Knowledge of measurement automation and data analysis The ability to code or script automation and data analysis using appropriate coding languages such as Python, JMP for example An ability to work independently without daily oversight Desirable skills: Knowledge of PCBA and system level technologies Background knowledge of ATE systems and capabilities. Whilst you will not be directly involved with such testing, some of the characterisation work will be performed on such systems Benefits: In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers a competitive benefits package. We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; were 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.

Multiple roles across different levels Graphcore is a globally recognised leader in Artificial Intelligence computing systems. The company designs advanced semiconductors and data centre hardware that provide the specialised processing power needed to drive AI innovation, while delivering the efficiency required to support its broader adoption. As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the worlds most transformative technologies. We are opening a new AI Engineering Campus in Bengaluru which will play a central role in Graphcore's work building the future of AI computing. We are looking to hire Post-Silicon Validation Engineers to join our collaborative, cross-functional development team validating cutting edge, high performance AI chips and platforms. You will play a critical role in supporting new product introductions and post-silicon validation.Working within the Post-Silicon Validation team, you will be involved with bringing first silicon to life, functionally validating it and working closely with many other teams to help it become a fully characterised and working product, reporting project status/progress to program management on a regular basis. You will have the opportunity to, and be responsible for, leading, mentoring, and providing technical guidance to other engineering team members. In this role, you can leverage your experience and industry knowledge to architect and drive implementation of continuous improvements to test infrastructure and processes. The Post-Silicon Validation team sits within the Architecture and Validation team, we are responsible for validation of new silicon when it returns from manufacture, enabling and supporting the production SW and FW teams to bring up their software and also supporting the Silicon Characterisation team. Responsibilities and Duties Plan, design, develop and debug silicon validation tests in bare metal C/C++ on FPGA/Emulator prior to first silicon Deploy silicon validation tests on first silicon and debugging them Develop automated test framework and regression test suites in Python to optimize validation efficiency Collaborate closely with engineers from many other disciplines on a variety of topics Work with Validation and Production Test engineering peers to implement best practices and continuous improvements to test methodologies Analyse test results, identify and debug failures/defects Contribute to shared test and validation infrastructure Provide feedback to architects Essential skills: Strong experience in Bare metal / embedded C/C++ Good knowledge of digital ASICs Be highly motivated, a self starter, and a team player Ability to work across teams and programming languages to find root causes of deep and complex issues Experience of the post-silicon validation process applied in digital ASIC environments Python, Linux Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with others to solve problems Excellent problem-solving, analytical & diagnostic skills Desirable skills: Driver level experience with one or more of the following is highly desirable: PCIe Ethernet Memory technologies (LPDDR, DDR, HBM, ) Other peripherals such as I2C, I3C, SPI, Good knowledge of mixed-signal building blocks such as PLLs, high speed PHYs and IC control/communication protocols is highly desirable Experience of Arm CPUs, System IPand debug tools Experience of AMBA protocols Understanding of ML applications and their workloads Experience in Characterization, Failure Analysis, Test Development, Statistical analysis, and Customer Support Benefits: In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers a competitive benefits package. We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; were 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.

Multiple roles across different levels Graphcore is a globally recognised leader in Artificial Intelligence computing systems. The company designs advanced semiconductors and data centre hardware that provide the specialised processing power needed to drive AI innovation, while delivering the efficiency required to support its broader adoption. As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the worlds most transformative technologies. We are opening a new AI Engineering Campus in Bengaluru which will play a central role in Graphcore's work building the future of AI computing. The physical design team sits within the wider silicon design team which includes RTL, verification and DFT. Our work also involves strong links with architecture, packaging and product engineering. We are responsible for working with those teams to create high-quality RTL and building the final chip layout (e.g. GDSII) ensuring a signoff-quality design is delivered to the Foundry (e.g. TSMC). We are looking to hire high-quality silicon physical design engineers to join our team. The successful candidate will support the team with achieving our goals and creating the right engineering solutions. We are a collaborative team and good communication is essential, as is the ability to adapt and learn. For the successful candidate we offer an open, honest and collaborative environment working on leading-edge designs at the most advanced nodes. Our engineers are not siloed, and they are trusted and encouraged to ta ke ownership of their designs and problem solutions. You will be part of a team that looks for improvements to everything we do: our designs, our flows, our methodologies, our infrastructure. Responsibilities and Duties Applicants will be expected to contribute technically to the development of Graphcore's next generation of AI superchips, focusing on achieving robust, high-performance and power-efficient designs in leading-edge process technologies while meeting ambitious development schedules Contributions are expected to span multiple areas and involve: 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 Candidates will be expected to work closely both with other teams within Graphcore and with 3rd party support engineers/contractors, ensuring good communication between all parties, and to contribute meaningfully to the overall efficiency and success of the Physical Team Essential skills: A Degree in Electronic/Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related subject with 3+ years of Industry experience Be highly motivated, a self-starter, and a team player 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 Logical Equivalence Timing Analysis Physical Verification (DRC/LVS/ERC) Desirable skills: In depth expertise in one or more aspects of physical design flows Structuring of builds to maximise PPA Silicon transistor knowledge including std cell libraries and/or memories 5D and 3D design (CoWoS, UCIe etc.) High speed, high power and/or full reticle chip design Ethernet, PCIe, LPDDR, HBM interfaces Power integrity and optimization 2nm or 3nm technologies Chip finishing (pad rings, chip level LVS/DRC/ERC) Design for test Team management Project Planning In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers a competitive benefits package. We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; were 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.

Multiple roles across different levels Graphcore is a globally recognised leader in Artificial Intelligence computing systems. The company designs advanced semiconductors and data centre hardware that provide the specialised processing power needed to drive AI innovation, while delivering the efficiency required to support its broader adoption. As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the worlds most transformative technologies. We are opening a new AI Engineering Campus in Bengaluru which will play a central role in Graphcore's work building the future of AI computing. The verification team sits within the Silicon design team and is responsible for ensuring that the RTL created by the logical design team and used by the physical design team matches the architecture specification for Graphcore silicon. The silicon verification engineer is responsible for verification activities within Graphcore, helping the team meet the company objectives for quality silicon delivery. Responsibilities Verification planning, specification and closure of functional coverage Providing feedback to architects Test generation and failure diagnosis/triage Contributing to shared verification infrastructure Ensuring good communication between sites Essential skills: Verification experience in relevant industry Proven leadership and planning skills Highly motivated, a self starter, and a team player Ability to work across teams and programming languages to find root causes of deep and complex issues Experience of the verification process applied in CPU and/or ASIC environmentsSystem Verilog, Python, C++, Linux Desirable skills: UVM SVA Assembly languages LLVM, GCC DVCS e.g. Git SGE or other DRMS XML and XPath/XSLT Web programming HTML/DOM, Javascript, SQL Benefits: In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers a competitive benefits package. We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; were 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.

Multiple roles across different levels Graphcore is a globally recognised leader in Artificial Intelligence computing systems. The company designs advanced semiconductors and data centre hardware that provide the specialised processing power needed to drive AI innovation, while delivering the efficiency required to support its broader adoption. As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the worlds most transformative technologies. We are opening a new AI Engineering Campus in Bengaluru which will play a central role in Graphcore's work building the future of AI computing. Working within the logical design team, the silicon logical design engineer is responsible for a wide range of logical design tasks. The team is responsible for delivering the Microarchitecture and RTL design to implement the chip architecture specification for Graphcore Silicon, working closely with other engineers within the Silicon team. The successful candidate will be responsible for helping the team deliver high quality micro-architecture and RTL for Graphcore chips, working within the logical design team and with the broader Silicon team to ensure we meet the company objectives for Silicon delivery. Responsibilities and Duties Producing high quality microarchitecture and RTL for Graphcore chips. Ensuring good communication between sites Contributing to shared design infrastructure and flows Using EDA tools and the Graphcore design flow to design in cutting edge technologies Leading and/or contributing to final chip level checks and auditing Providing feedback to Physical Design, Verification and DFT teams Essential skills: Logical design experience in relevant industry Be highly motivated, a self-starter, and a team player Ability to work across teams and debugging issues seen to find root causes Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related subject Ability to program, required to solve design issues, e.g. Python, Tcl SystemVerilog Knowledge of digital design flows Desirable skills: Processor design Application specific blocks High-speed serial interfaces Complex third-party IP integration Arithmetic pipeline design Floating-point design Design for test Synthesis Timing Analysis Project Planning Power Integrity Silicon transistor Benefits: In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers a competitive benefits package. We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; were 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.

You will be joining Graphcore, a globally recognized leader in Artificial Intelligence computing systems, as a Senior Principal AI SoC Validation (Bring-up lead). In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring pre-production software runs reliably on new silicon efficiently, and that the silicon meets the highest standards of quality, reliability, and functionality for production deployment. **Key Responsibilities:** - Define and lead post-silicon validation strategy, ensuring reliable and timely delivery of validated silicon with architectural correctness and feature robustness. - Drive cross-domain debug and issue resolution, investigating and resolving complex issues spanning silicon, firmware, operating systems, and platform interactions. - Promote collaboration and shared understanding among design, software, and validation teams to align on quality objectives and debug priorities. - Advance automation and scalable validation by encouraging the use of emulation, prototyping, and large-scale validation infrastructure. - Support continuous improvement by fostering a culture that values learning, transparency, and improvement in validation methods and analysis. - Engage with leadership and customers by providing clear updates on validation progress, risks, and quality indicators to executive teams and key partners. **Qualifications:** - Bachelors degree in Electronic Engineering or equivalent; Masters preferred. - 10-20 years in silicon, system, or platform validation, including 5-10 years in technical leadership. - Proven experience leading post-silicon validation and bring-up for complex SoCs (AI, GPU, or CPU). - Strong understanding of SoC architecture, coherency protocols, power management, and interconnects. - Expertise in debug tools, DFT infrastructure, and validation automation frameworks. - Proficient in C/C++, Python, and Linux-based environments; experience with large-scale validation clusters is an advantage. - Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills. If you join Graphcore, you will have the opportunity to play a central role in developing an advanced AI compute platform that pushes the boundaries of performance and efficiency. You will be part of a highly skilled and motivated team, working on technology that will have a significant impact across future AI systems.,

Job Title: People Lead – India Location: Bengaluru (Hybrid) People Manager: Yes Graphcore is a UK-headquartered semiconductor and AI compute company, now part of SoftBank’s global AI ecosystem. Our headquarters are in Bristol, with offices in London, Cambridge, Poland, Germany, and Taiwan. In 2025, we are expanding into India with a new entity and office based in Bengaluru — a key hub for engineering, operations, and growth. Our mission is to build the future of AI compute – and that depends not only on exceptional engineering but also on an outstanding People function. As we scale globally, the People team is focused on building strong operational foundations and great employee experience everywhere we operate. The People Lead – India will be our first senior People Enablement hire in-country, playing a pivotal role in standing up our India entity and shaping its success. This is a hands-on, high-impact generalist position covering the employee lifecycle, ensuring India compliance, operational excellence, and strong local partnerships. You will be part of the Global People Team, reporting into the Senior Director of People Operations in the UK, and collaborating with the wider People Operations, Business Partner, and Talent teams. Job Summary You will own the delivery of all People Enablement activities for our India entity, from onboarding to offboarding, while ensuring we meet all statutory, policy, and compliance requirements. This role will act as the local point of contact for India employees and managers, collaborating closely with global colleagues in People, Finance, Workplace, and Engineering to ensure smooth operations and a consistent global experience. As a trusted advisor to managers and engineers, you will help them build and grow great teams — providing practical guidance, ensuring strong people practices, and fostering an inclusive and high-performance culture. You will work closely with the People Operations Adviser currently supporting setup activities, providing direction, and mentoring as operations mature. You will also partner with key vendors including payroll and benefits brokers, and local compliance partners. As our footprint grows, you will help us move from 0 to 100+ employees – building while flying – creating scalable processes, supporting team environments, and continuously improving our ways of working. Responsibilities And Duties Operational Delivery Lead delivery of all People Operations activities for the India entity – onboarding, employment changes, HRIS updates, benefits enrolments, and leavers. Partner with managers and engineers to enable smooth onboarding, transitions, and people processes that support team growth and engagement. Oversee payroll inputs and monthly cycles in partnership with Finance and payroll provider. Maintain and update India employee files, HR registers, and statutory records in line with local requirements. Partner with Workplace and IT on onboarding, asset tracking, and workspace readiness. Partner with auditors to ensure accuracy and compliance of employee documentation and processes. Compliance and Governance Ensure compliance with India labour law, statutory benefits (EPF, ESIC, Gratuity, Shops & Establishment Act), and record-keeping obligations. Establish and coordinate the POSH Committee, ensuring compliance with the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace Act. Liaise with auditors, and regulators on People-related compliance and filings. Maintain awareness of evolving employment legislation and update policies and processes accordingly. Vendor and Partner Management Act as the day-to-day relationship lead for payroll, benefits, and HR service providers to ensure smooth delivery of people's operations. Partner with Finance, Workplace, and Legal teams to ensure alignment on operational and compliance matters. Manage renewals, service improvements, and issue resolution with all vendors. Employee And Manager Experience Provide high-quality employee support across the lifecycle – contracts, letters, benefits queries, and general HR advice. Support and coach managers and engineers on People policies, employee relations, and day-to-day management practices to help build healthy, high-performing teams. Support employee engagement activities, wellbeing initiatives, and policy awareness. Promote consistency with Graphcore’s global People processes while adapting for local needs. Foster and promote the company’s culture of collaboration, respect, and continuous improvement through everyday interactions and people programs Process Improvement and Projects Build, document, and refine local HR processes, workflows, and templates. Identify opportunities to automate or simplify manual steps through HRIS tools and data. Support global People initiatives such as policy alignment, HRIS upgrades, and process mapping. Contribute to global People Enablement discussions, sharing India insights and improvements. Candidate Profile Essential [10 years plus] strong relevant Experience in People Operations or HR Generalist Lead roles Strong working knowledge of India statutory requirements and employment law. Experience managing HR vendors and external partners (e.g., payroll, benefits, HR services). Skilled in HR systems and data management. Proven ability to manage workflows, prioritise effectively, and deliver high-quality outcomes under time pressure. Excellent communication and relationship-building skills across cultures and time zones. Comfortable with ambiguity and change – able to build structure while scaling rapidly. Experience leading or mentoring a small team. Desirable Experience working in a global or technology/engineering environment. Exposure to setting up or supporting new entities or international offices. Familiarity with global HRIS, benefits, and compliance frameworks. Mindset and Approach Values collaboration over hierarchy and builds trust through openness and involvement. Is confident and knowledgeable, yet curious and humble enough to learn from others. Enjoys working in a fast iterative environment – building while flying. Balances structure with pragmatism, and compliance with a people-first approach. Motivated by helping managers and engineers build great teams.

Role Overview: As the People Lead for India at Graphcore, you will play a crucial role in establishing and shaping the success of the company's new entity in Bengaluru. Reporting to the Senior Director of People Operations in the UK, you will be responsible for managing all People Enablement activities for the India entity, ensuring compliance with statutory requirements, and fostering a strong local presence. Your role will involve collaborating with various teams globally to ensure smooth operations and a consistent experience for employees. Key Responsibilities: - Lead all People Operations activities for the India entity, including onboarding, HRIS updates, benefits enrolments, and offboarding. - Collaborate with managers and engineers to facilitate smooth onboarding, transitions, and people processes that support team growth and engagement. - Maintain and update India employee files, HR registers, and statutory records in accordance with local regulations. - Partner with Workplace and IT teams for onboarding, asset tracking, and workspace readiness. - Ensure compliance with India labor laws, statutory benefits, and record-keeping obligations, liaising with auditors and regulators as necessary. - Manage vendor relationships related to operational and compliance matters, including renewals and issue resolution. - Provide high-quality employee support throughout the employee lifecycle, offering guidance on contracts, benefits queries, and HR policies. - Support managers and engineers on people policies, employee relations, and day-to-day management practices to foster healthy, high-performing teams. - Contribute to employee engagement activities, wellbeing initiatives, and policy awareness, promoting a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. - Drive process improvement initiatives, document local HR processes, identify automation opportunities, and support global People Enablement projects. Qualifications Required: - At least 10 years of experience in People Operations or HR Generalist Lead roles. - Strong knowledge of India statutory requirements and employment law. - Proficiency in HR systems, data management, and workflow prioritization. - Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality outcomes under time pressure. - Excellent communication skills across cultures and time zones. - Comfort with ambiguity, change, and rapid scaling. - Experience in leading or mentoring a small team. Additional Details: Graphcore is a UK-headquartered semiconductor and AI compute company, expanding into India with a new entity in Bengaluru. The company's mission is to build the future of AI compute by focusing on exceptional engineering and an outstanding People function. As the People Lead in India, you will be part of a global team dedicated to building strong operational foundations and a great employee experience worldwide.,

Silicon Physical Design Engineer Multiple roles across different levels Graphcore is a globally recognised leader in Artificial Intelligence computing systems. The company designs advanced semiconductors and data centre hardware that provide the specialised processing power needed to drive AI innovation, while delivering the efficiency required to support its broader adoption. 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. We are opening a new AI Engineering Campus in Bengaluru which will play a central role in Graphcore's work building the future of AI computing. The physical design team sits within the wider silicon design team which includes RTL, verification and DFT. Our work also involves strong links with architecture, packaging and product engineering. We are responsible for working with those teams to create high-quality RTL and building the final chip layout (e.g. GDSII) ensuring a signoff-quality design is delivered to the Foundry (e.g. TSMC). We are looking to hire high-quality silicon physical design engineers to join our team. The successful candidate will support the team with achieving our goals and creating the right engineering solutions. We are a collaborative team and good communication is essential, as is the ability to adapt and learn. For the successful candidate we offer an open, honest and collaborative environment working on leading-edge designs at the most advanced nodes. Our engineers are not siloed, and they are trusted and encouraged to take ownership of their designs and problem solutions. You will be part of a team that looks for improvements to everything we do: our designs, our flows, our methodologies, our infrastructure. Responsibilities And Duties Applicants will be expected to contribute technically to the development of Graphcore's next generation of AI superchips, focusing on achieving robust, high-performance and power-efficient designs in leading-edge process technologies while meeting ambitious development schedules Contributions are expected to span multiple areas and involve: 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 Candidates will be expected to work closely both with other teams within Graphcore and with 3rd party support engineers/contractors, ensuring good communication between all parties, and to contribute meaningfully to the overall efficiency and success of the Physical Team Essential Skills A Degree in Electronic/Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related subject with 3+ years of Industry experience Be highly motivated, a self-starter, and a team player 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 Logical Equivalence Timing Analysis Physical Verification (DRC/LVS/ERC) Desirable Skills In depth expertise in one or more aspects of physical design flows Structuring of builds to maximise PPA Silicon transistor knowledge including std cell libraries and/or memories 5D and 3D design (CoWoS, UCIe etc.) High speed, high power and/or full reticle chip design Ethernet, PCIe, LPDDR, HBM interfaces Power integrity and optimization 2nm or 3nm technologies Chip finishing (pad rings, chip level LVS/DRC/ERC) Design for test Team management Project Planning In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers a competitive benefits package. 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.