Graphcore - Silicon Physical Design Engineer
Requirements
• A Degree in Electronic/Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or related subject • Be highly motivated, a self-starter, and a team player • Enjoy taking responsibility and improving skills and knowledge • Excellent problem-solving skills for debugging issues seen and finding root causes • Ability to program/script (required to solve design issues, typically in Tcl and Python) • Experience in 7nm or smaller technologies • A good breadth of experience with physical design flows including: Floorplanning/Budgeting, Synthesis, Place and Route, Clock CTS, Timing Analysis, Logical Equivalence, Physical Verification (DRC/LVS/ERC) • In depth expertise in one or more aspects of physical design flows • Structuring of builds to maximise PPA • Silicon transistor knowledge including std cell libraries and/or memories • 5D and 3D design (CoWoS, UCIe etc.) • High speed, high power and/or full reticle chip design • Ethernet, PCIe, LPDDR, HBM interfaces • Power integrity and optimization • 2nm or 3nm technologies • Chip finishing (pad rings, chip level LVS/DRC/ERC) • Design for test • Team management • Project Planning
Responsibilities
• Applicants will be expected to contribute technically to the development of Graphcore's next generation of AI superchips, focusing on achieving robust, high-performance and power-efficient designs in leading-edge process technologies while meeting ambitious development schedules. Contributions are expected to span multiple areas and involve: • using state-of-the-art EDA tools and in-house Graphcore flows to deliver final designs that are of sign-off quality • enhancing existing flows and in-house tools/APIs to support new features and/or methodologies • analysis and/or debugging of complex engineering problems leading to workable solutions • developing an understanding of emerging technical issues and applying that knowledge to optimise in-house flows and methodologies • Candidates will be expected to work closely both with other teams within Graphcore and with 3rd party support engineers/contractors, ensuring good communication between all parties, and to contribute meaningfully to the overall efficiency and success of the Physical Team. • Candidate Profile • Candidate Profile
Benefits
• In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working, a generous annual leave policy, private medical insurance and health cash plan, a dental plan, pension (matched up to 5%), life assurance and income protection. We have a generous parental leave policy and an employee assistance programme (which includes health, mental wellbeing, and bereavement support). We offer a range of healthy food and snacks at our central Bristol office and have our own barista bar! We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we’re committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments
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