Senior Physical Design 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.
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About the Role
You will contribute to the development of next-generation AI chips by using EDA tools and internal flows to deliver signoff-quality designs. You will enhance design flows and APIs, debug complex engineering issues, optimize methodologies, and collaborate with internal teams and external support engineers. You will work across floorplanning, synthesis, place and route, clock CTS, timing analysis, logical equivalence, and physical verification.
Requirements
- Degree in Electronic Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related subject
- 3+ years of industry experience
- Ability to program or script in Tcl and Python
- Experience with 7nm or smaller technologies
- Experience with physical design flows
- Problem-solving skills
- Experience with floorplanning and budgeting
- Experience with synthesis
- Experience with place and route
- Experience with clock CTS
- Experience with logical equivalence
- Experience with timing analysis
- Experience with physical verification including DRC, LVS, and ERC
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development of next-generation AI superchips
- Use EDA tools and internal flows to deliver signoff-quality designs
- Enhance existing flows and internal tools and APIs
- Analyze and debug complex engineering problems
- Optimize internal flows and methodologies
- Collaborate with internal teams and third-party support engineers and contractors