Lead Bring-up & Characterisation Engineer
Graphcore is a Bristol-based AI chipmaker (IPU accelerators), a SoftBank subsidiary and a Molten Ventures portfolio company.
Maintainer signals as of 8/20/2026
About Graphcore
Graphcore (graphcore.ai) is a British semiconductor company building Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs) for AI workloads. Founded in Bristol in 2016, it was acquired by SoftBank in 2024. It is a portfolio company of Molten Ventures.
Skills
Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will lead the bring-up and characterisation of silicon devices and system platforms. You will build a team, develop characterisation plans, automate testing, analyse results, and work with architecture, silicon, hardware, operations, and product stakeholders to resolve technical challenges.
Requirements
- Silicon digital device design
- Silicon bring-up
- Silicon characterisation
- Silicon process technology
- High-performance processors
- System-on-chip architecture
- PCIe
- Ethernet
- DDR
- Measurement automation
- Data analysis
- Automated testing
- ATE systems
- PCBA
- Project management
- Bachelor's degree
Responsibilities
- Lead silicon device and system platform bring-up
- Lead silicon device and system platform characterisation
- Build and lead a characterisation engineering team
- Develop characterisation plans
- Automate testing and analysis workflows
- Analyse silicon and system platform results
- Resolve technical challenges with cross-functional stakeholders
Benefits
- Unlimited annual leave
- Up to 5% matched pension
- Phantom equity
- Flexible work location and arrangements
- Free food
- On-site barista
- Health cash plan
- Income protection
- Life assurance
- Private medical insurance
- Dental plan