# Silicon Physical Design Engineer

**Company**: Graphcore
**Location**: Bristol, UK; Cambridge, UK
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Summary

We are looking for high-quality silicon physical design engineers to complement our existing exceptional team. We have a range of roles available with focus on those with extensive ranges of skills and experience although exceptional candidates with less experience will be considered.

## 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

## Candidate Profile

Essential Skills and Experience:

- A Degree in Electronic/Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related subject

- Be highly motivated, a self-starter, and a team player

- Enjoy taking responsibility and improving skills and knowledge

- 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, Timing Analysis, Logical Equivalence, Physical Verification (DRC/LVS/ERC)

Desirable Skills and Experience:

- 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

- 2D 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

## 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).

## Skills

### Required
- Electronic/Electrical Engineering
- Computer Science
- problem-solving
- programming/scripting (Tcl and Python)
- physical design flows
- Floorplanning/Budgeting
- Synthesis
- Place and Route
- Clock CTS
- Timing Analysis
- Logical Equivalence
- Physical Verification (DRC/LVS/ERC)

### Nice to have
- in-depth expertise in physical design flows
- structuring of builds to maximise PPA
- silicon transistor knowledge
- 2D and 3D design
- 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
- design for test
- team management
- project planning

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