Silicon Physical Design Engineers

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Bristol, England
Mid level
Artificial Intelligence • Semiconductor
The Role
The Silicon Physical Design Engineer will work within the silicon physical design team to deliver high-quality final design databases to the Foundry. Responsibilities include ensuring signoff quality of designs, communication between teams, and contributing to physical design infrastructure using EDA tools to implement designs in cutting-edge technologies.
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About Graphcore

How often do you get the chance to build a technology that transforms the future of humanity?

Graphcore products have set the standard in made-for-AI compute hardware and software, gaining global attention and industry acclaim. Now we are developing the next generation of artificial intelligence compute with systems that will allow AI researchers to develop more advanced models, help scientists unlock exciting new discoveries, and power companies around the world as they put AI at the heart of their business.

Graphcore recently joined SoftBank Group – bringing large and ongoing investment from one of the world’s leading backers of innovative AI companies.

Job Summary

Working within the silicon physical design team the silicon physical designer is responsible for a wide range of physical design tasks working closely with other engineers within the Silicon department. This person is responsible for helping the team deliver high quality final design databases to the Foundry, working within the physical design team and the rest of the silicon teams to ensure that the silicon team can meet the company objectives for silicon delivery.

The Team

The physical design team sits within the Silicon design team. We are responsible for delivering the final chip layout (e.g. GDSII) using the RTL delivered from the logical design / DFT team, ensuring a signoff quality design is delivered to the Foundry (e.g. TSMC).

Responsibilities and Duties

  • Helping the physical design team work efficiently together
  • Ensuring the final designs sent to the Foundry are of signoff quality
  • Ensuring good communication between sites
  • Leading and/or contributing to shared physical design infrastructure and flows.
  • Using EDA tools and the Graphcore design flow to implement design in cutting edge technologies
  • Leading and/or contributing to final chip level checks and auditing
  • Providing feedback to RTL and DFT teams

Candidate Profile

Essential:

  • 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
  • Digital Design experience
  • Synthesis
  • Place and Route
  • Timing Analysis
  • Logical Equivalence
  • Physical Design Checks

Desirable

  • Experience managing teams
  • Project Planning
  • Power Integrity
  • Silicon transistor knowledge
  • Design for test

Benefits

In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working, a generous annual leave policy, private medical insurance and health cash plan, a dental plan, pension (matched up to 5%), life assurance and income protection. We have a generous parental leave policy and an employee assistance programme (which includes health, mental wellbeing, and bereavement support). We offer a range of healthy food and snacks at our central Bristol office and have our own barista bar! 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

Top Skills

Python,Tcl
The Company
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
389 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2016

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.

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