Hardware Design Team Lead
Graphcore is a SoftBank-owned AI-compute company developing AI processors, systems, and software for machine-learning workloads.
Funding history
About Graphcore
Graphcore develops Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs) and the Poplar SDK for building and running machine-learning applications. It continues operating under the Graphcore name as a wholly owned SoftBank Group subsidiary.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead hardware-design delivery from circuit and schematic development through verification and production transition. You will provide line management, coach engineers, allocate work against capacity, coordinate reviews and investigations, and ensure corrective actions are closed. You will collaborate across relevant engineering disciplines, explain risks and trade-offs, and plan tools, licences, and compute resources.
Requirements
- People leadership experience, including developing engineers, delegating effectively and addressing performance issues
- Experience coordinating engineering delivery with programme management, including estimates, work allocation, dependencies and capacity
- Cross-disciplinary communication skills for explaining risks, trade-offs and competing expectations
- Hardware engineering background covering circuit and schematic development, board implementation, verification and production transition
- Engineering degree or equivalent practical experience
- Understanding of power supplies, sequencing, reset, clocks, digital interfaces and SI/PI constraints
- Experience organising technical reviews, maintaining traceable design records, and closing investigations and corrective actions
- Legal right to work in the UK
Responsibilities
- Lead engineers responsible for power, timing and control circuits
- Provide line management and coach engineers' development
- Agree achievable commitments and allocate work to available capacity
- Coordinate reviews and investigations
- Ensure corrective actions reach closure
- Plan tools, licences and compute resources
- Coordinate with SI/PI, PCB layout, mechanical, thermal, systems and firmware engineering
- Flag competing priorities and present practical resolution options
- Maintain traceable design records
Benefits
- Flexible working
- Generous leave
- Up to 5% matched pension
- Phantom equity
- Free food and on-site barista
- Income protection
- Life assurance
- Electric vehicle salary-sacrifice scheme
- Private medical insurance
- Dental cover
- Health cash plan
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Give-as-you-earn scheme