Staff Silicon Logical 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 integrate IP and subsystems into top-level SoC designs and develop build and configuration environments. You will perform synthesis, linting, CDC/RDC, and timing checks, support verification and physical design teams, debug integration issues, improve automation flows, produce microarchitecture documentation, and maintain effective communication across sites.
Requirements
- Logical design experience in the semiconductor industry
- 8-12 years of semiconductor industry or product development experience
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related subject
- Ability to script in Python or Tcl for automation and design issue resolution
- Experience with SystemVerilog
- Knowledge of digital design flows
- Knowledge of processor design
- Knowledge of application-specific blocks
- Knowledge of high-speed serial interfaces
- Experience with complex third-party IP integration
- Knowledge of arithmetic pipeline design
- Knowledge of floating-point design
- Knowledge of design for test
- Knowledge of synthesis, timing analysis, project planning, and power integrity
Responsibilities
- Integrate IP and subsystems into top-level SoC designs
- Develop and maintain build and configuration environments
- Perform synthesis, linting, CDC/RDC, and timing checks at the SoC level
- Support verification and physical design teams through interface hand-offs
- Debug and resolve integration issues across hierarchies
- Improve integration flows and automation
- Produce microarchitecture and technical documentation
- Maintain communication between sites