Silicon Verification 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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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will verify Graphcore RTL against architecture specifications, plan verification activities, define coverage, generate tests, diagnose failures, and improve shared verification infrastructure. You will debug across RTL, software, and verification systems while working with architecture, logical design, and physical design stakeholders to protect silicon quality.
Requirements
- Verification experience in CPU, ASIC, or closely related silicon environments
- Experience with UVM, SVA, assembly, compilers, Git, or DRMS tools
- Ability to plan verification work and drive functional coverage to closure
- Strong debugging skills across RTL, software, and shared verification infrastructure
- Confidence in SystemVerilog and Python
Responsibilities
- Plan verification
- Define coverage
- Generate tests
- Diagnose failures
- Improve shared verification infrastructure
- Debug across RTL, software, and verification infrastructure
Benefits
- Flexible working
- Generous leave
- Retirement planning support with 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