Hardware Development Engineer
Graphcore
- Bristol, England, United Kingdom
- Bristol, England, United Kingdom
About
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. Together, they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone.
Graphcore’s teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives. A melting pot of AI research specialists, silicon designers, software engineers and systems architects, Graphcore enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation.
What You’ll Be Doing As a hardware development engineer you will analyse system requirements and design circuit solutions, in collaboration with Graphcore’s Silicon, Architecture and Software Teams.
You will generate schematics and PCB layout constraints and work closely with the PCB CAD team to realise the designs. You will define test and validation plans, run test campaigns, report results, work closely with the firmware and system architecture teams to interpret results, debug and improve performance.
You will be expert in microprocessor system design and debug, with a understanding of processor power supply, reset & clocking requirements, memory, communications and control interfaces.
Development of production systems and test boards for Graphcore’s family of processors which includes:
Circuit design, requirements analysis, functional definition, and component selection
PCB Layout constraint definition, and support of PCB CAD layout team
Circuit validation and verification
Design and running of tests to validate circuit performance and margin
Debugging and optimisation, in collaboration with the firmware team, of the correct system performance of microcontroller hardware control code
Prototype production support, prototype bringup, evaluation & system test, prototype validation.
Support of transfer to mass production.
The Team Graphcore’s Hardware Engineering Team creates both products for sale in volume production and hardware test & validation systems based on Graphcore’s IPU processor. These systems allow Graphcore’s customers to develop leading‑edge machine‑learning solutions for training and inference.
What You’ll Bring We appreciate not everyone will meet all of the criteria. If you meet most of the requirements below and believe you can bring value to this role, we’d love to hear from you.
Essential Experience In (one Of) The Following Areas
Knowledge of DCDC voltage (including multi‑phase) regulators, linear regulators and PCB design requirements for efficient power delivery
Processor system development, as STM32, with experience in processor interfaces such as Ethernet, PCIe, DDR, FLASH, USB, I2C, SPI, JTAG etc
Experience in SERDES (eg 112Gbps, PAM4) a benefit
Other Experience Required
Demonstrable experience in digital circuit development and validation
Familiar with bringing up, debugging and validating designs
Knowledge and use of high‑speed digital oscilloscopes, logic analysers and signal generators
Experience in scripting (Linux, Python, Bash) of tests and Excel to analyse results
Desirable
Experience of document management and record keeping
Experience in Mentor (or similar) PCB design flow for schematic capture, design constraints, PCB layout
What We’ll Bring 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.
Applicants for this position must hold the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately at this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or support for visa applications.
Seniority level: Entry level
Employment type: Full‑time
Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
Industry: Semiconductor Manufacturing
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Languages
- English
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