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).