About the company
Graphcore is one of the world’s leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute, developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure. Part of the SoftBank Group.
Responsibilities
- Design circuit solutions for Graphcore processor systems and validation platforms
- Turn system requirements into schematics, layout constraints, and testable hardware
- Shape production systems and test boards used across development, validation, and customer enablement
- Define validation plans, run lab campaigns, debug prototypes, and interpret results with firmware and architecture teams
- Own designs through definition, schematic capture, layout support, bring-up, validation, and production transfer
Requirements
- Strong digital circuit design and validation skills, including DCDC regulators, power delivery, resets, clocks, and control interfaces
- Experience developing processor-based systems and working with interfaces such as Ethernet, PCIe, DDR, USB, QSPI and JTAG
- Practical lab depth in bring-up, debug, margin testing, and validation using oscilloscopes, logic analysers and signal generators
- Ability to script tests and analyse results using Linux, Python, Bash and Excel
- Understanding of server architecture, such as BMC, NIC and SSD; SERDES experience is a plus
- Ownership mindset, clear communication, and cross-disciplinary collaboration
Conditions
- Flexible working, generous leave
- Pension matched up to 5%, phantom equity
- Income protection and life assurance
- Flexible benefits: private medical insurance, dental cover, cycle to work scheme
- Requires the legal right to work in the UK; no visa sponsorship