About us
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.
Job Summary
Working within the Silicon verification team, the silicon verification engineer is responsible for a wide range of tasks within the silicon verification team. This person is responsible for verification activities within Graphcore, helping the silicon team meet the company objectives for quality silicon delivery.
The Team
The verification team sits within the Silicon design team. We are 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.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Verification activities within the verification team
- Ensuring good communication between sites
- Verification planning, specification and closure of functional coverage
- Providing feedback to architects
- Test generation and failure diagnosis/triage
- Contributing to shared verification infrastructure
Candidate Profile
Essential:
- verification experience in relevant industry
- Proven leadership and planning skills
- 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
- Ability to research along with the knowledge to solve complex problems
- Presents technical and functional knowledge to design experiments/ projects that contribute to overall direction of team
- Exercises independent judgment in developing methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
- Highly influential on colleagues with ability to explain difficult concepts
- Experience of the verification process applied in CPU and/or ASIC environments
- System Verilog, Python, C++, Linux
- 12 – 14 years-experience in engineering background
Desirable
- UVM
- SVA
- Assembly languages
- LLVM, GCC
- DVCS e.g. Git
- SGE or other DRMS
- XML and XPath/XSLT
- Web programming – HTML/DOM, Javascript, SQL
Top Skills
What We Do
Graphcore has created a new processor, the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), specifically designed for artificial intelligence. The IPU’s unique architecture means developers can run current machine learning models orders of magnitude faster. More importantly, it lets AI researchers undertake entirely new types of work, not possible using current technologies, to drive the next great breakthroughs in general machine intelligence.
Our next generation 3D Wafer-on-Wafer Bow IPU systems are helping AI innovators worldwide to build better, more innovative AI solutions, whether their focus is on language and vision, exploring graph neural networks and LSTMs or creating something entirely new.
We believe our IPU technology will become the worldwide standard for artificial intelligence compute. The performance of Graphcore’s IPU is going to be transformative across all industries and sectors whether you are a medical researcher, roboticist or building autonomous cars.
Our team is at the forefront of the artificial intelligence revolution, enabling innovators from all industries and sectors to expand human potential with technology. What we do, really makes a difference.
We're always interested in hearing from exceptional people to join our team.
