Description
We are seeking a Director of Silicon Logical Design to lead and scale our Logical Design group within the Silicon department.
This role is accountable for the overall strategy, technical direction, execution quality and team development for Graphcore's microarchitecture and RTL design efforts.
The Director will be responsible for ensuring that our logical design methodologies, architectures and RTL implementations meet world-class standards for performance, power, area, and schedule.
Responsibilities and Duties:
- Leadership & Strategy: Define and execute the strategic roadmap for Logical Design, ensuring alignment with Graphcore's silicon and product strategy.
- Lead, grow and mentor a high-performing RTL/micro-architecture design organisation.
- Establish and implement best-in-class design methodologies, documentation standards and quality metrics.
- Drive continuous improvement across team structure, workflows, tooling, and design processes.
- Technical Ownership: Provide technical oversight of micro-architecture specification and RTL development across all major blocks and subsystems.
- Guide architectural feasibility studies, contribute to architectural trade-offs and micro-architecture definition.
- Oversee the integration of third-party IP, complex application-specific blocks, and high-performance custom designs.
- Ensure robust design sign-off through high-quality linting, synthesis, CDC/RDC, timing closure and coverage metrics.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Physical Design, Verification, DFT, Architecture and Program Management teams to ensure cohesive planning and execution.
- Foster strong communication across teams and global sites, ensuring alignment on priorities, risks and deliverables.
- Support silicon bring-up and debug efforts by providing expert guidance and deep understanding of RTL behaviour and architecture.
- Execution & Delivery: Own delivery of high-quality, on-schedule RTL for multiple parallel silicon programs.
- Establish scalable project planning and tracking practices, including resource planning and risk mitigation.
- Champion design automation and infrastructure improvements to accelerate productivity and improve design quality.
Essential Skills & Experience:
- Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
- Extensive experience in digital logical design, micro-architecture and RTL development for large-scale, high-performance silicon projects.
- Proven success leading and developing technical teams in a semiconductor environment.
- Deep expertise in SystemVerilog or VHDL and familiarity with modern digital design flows.
- Strong ability to diagnose and resolve complex design issues, including via scripting/programming (Python, Tcl, etc.).
- Demonstrated excellence in cross-functional leadership and communication across global teams.
- Strong organisational skills with ability to manage multiple priorities and drive execution in fast-paced environments.