Staff Silicon Physical Design Engineer
Graphcore is a SoftBank-owned AI-compute company developing AI processors, systems, and software for machine-learning workloads.
Funding history
About Graphcore
Graphcore develops Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs) and the Poplar SDK for building and running machine-learning applications. It continues operating under the Graphcore name as a wholly owned SoftBank Group subsidiary.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will contribute to physical design for AI superchips, using EDA tools and in-house flows to deliver signoff-quality chip layouts. You will enhance design flows and APIs, investigate complex engineering issues, optimize methodologies, and work with internal teams and external support engineers.
Requirements
- Degree in Electronic Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related subject
- 3+ years of industry experience
- Problem-solving and root-cause debugging
- Tcl and Python scripting
- Experience with 7nm or smaller technologies
- Floorplanning and budgeting
- Synthesis
- Place and route
- Clock tree synthesis
- Logical equivalence
- Timing analysis
- Physical verification
Responsibilities
- Develop physical designs for next-generation AI superchips
- Use EDA tools and in-house flows to deliver signoff-quality designs
- Enhance in-house flows, tools, and APIs
- Analyze and debug complex engineering problems
- Optimize design flows and methodologies
- Collaborate with internal teams and external support engineers