Hardware Development Engineer
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Graphcore is a SoftBank-owned AI-compute company developing AI processors, systems, and software for machine-learning workloads.
Bristol, United Kingdom
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 turn system requirements into circuit schematics, layout constraints, and testable hardware. You will define validation plans, run lab campaigns, debug prototypes, analyze results, and support designs from schematic capture through bring-up, validation, and production transfer.
Requirements
- Digital circuit design and validation skills
- Knowledge of DCDC regulators, power delivery, resets, clocks, and control interfaces
- Experience with processor-based systems
- Experience with Ethernet, PCIe, DDR, USB, QSPI, and JTAG
- Lab experience with bring-up, debug, margin testing, and validation
- Experience using oscilloscopes, logic analysers, and signal generators
- Ability to use Linux, Python, Bash, and Excel for test scripting and analysis
- Understanding of server architecture, BMC, NIC, and SSD
- SERDES experience
Responsibilities
- Design circuit solutions for processor systems and validation platforms
- Turn system requirements into schematics and layout constraints
- Define validation plans and run lab campaigns
- Debug prototypes and interpret validation results
- Support hardware designs through bring-up, validation, and production transfer
- Assess performance, margin, and reliability before volume production
Benefits
- Flexible working
- Generous leave
- Up to 5% matched pension
- Phantom equity
- Office spaces
- Free food
- On-site barista
- Income protection
- Life assurance
- Private medical insurance
- Dental cover
- Health cash plan
- Cycle to work scheme
- Give as you earn