Principal Product Engineer
Graphcore is a Bristol-based AI chipmaker (IPU accelerators), a SoftBank subsidiary and a Molten Ventures portfolio company.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
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 guide advanced product performance through launch, production ramp, and high-volume manufacturing. You will analyze semiconductor, PCBA, and system-level manufacturing data, improve yield, quality, and cost, apply statistical methods, visualize large datasets with Python, SQL, or JMP, and coordinate technical decisions across test, manufacturing, quality, data, and external partner teams.
Requirements
- Semiconductor product engineering
- Test engineering
- Manufacturing engineering
- High-volume production
- Semiconductor manufacturing and testing
- PCBA manufacturing and testing
- System-level manufacturing and testing
- Statistical analysis
- SPC
- DOE
- Regression
- Hypothesis testing
- Six Sigma
- Python
- SQL
- JMP
- Manufacturing data visualization
- Yield improvement
- Quality improvement
- Cost improvement
- Technical ownership
Responsibilities
- Guide product performance through launch and production ramp
- Analyze manufacturing data to improve yield, quality, and cost
- Partner with test, manufacturing, quality, data, and external teams
- Define best practices for product test and diagnosis
- Release new products
- Solve yield, test, and manufacturing challenges
- Analyze and visualize manufacturing datasets
- Drive improvements across complex manufacturing processes
Benefits
- Flexible working
- Generous leave
- Up to 5% matched pension
- Phantom equity
- 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
