Principal Silicon Logical Design Engineer - Bengaluru

About us

Graphcore is a globally recognised leader in Artificial Intelligence computing systems. The company designs advanced semiconductors and data centre hardware that provide the specialised processing power needed to drive AI innovation, while delivering the efficiency required to support its broader adoption. 

As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies.

Job Summary

Working within the logical design team, the silicon logical designer is responsible for a wide range of logical design tasks working closely with other engineers within the Silicon department. This person is responsible for helping the team deliver high quality micro-architecture and RTL for Graphcore chips, working within the logical design team and the rest of the silicon teams to ensure that the silicon team can meet the company objectives for silicon delivery. 

The Team

The logical design team sits within the Silicon design team. We are responsible for delivering the Microarchitecture and RTL design to implement the chip architecture specification for Graphcore Silicon.

Responsibilities and Duties

• 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 clean interface hand-offs
• Debug and resolve integration-related issues across multiple hierarchies
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of integration flows and automation
• Producing high quality microarchitecture and other documentation
• Ensure good communication between sites to maintain consistent working practices 

• Leading and/or contributing to final chip level checks and auditing 

Candidate Profile

Essential Skills:

• logical design experience in relevant industry
• Be highly motivated, a self-starter, and a team player 
• Proven leadership or block ownership experience
• Ability to work across teams and debugging issues seen to find root causes 
• Ability to research along with the knowledge to solve complex problems
• Presents technical and functional knowledge to design experiments/ projects that contribute to overall direction of team
• Exercises independent judgment in developing methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results
• Highly influential on colleagues with ability to explain difficult concepts
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related subject 
• Ability to script in Python and/or TCL for automation and to solve design issues
• SystemVerilog
• Knowledge of digital design flows
• 12 – 14 years-experience in engineering background

Desirable Skills:

• Processor design,
• Application specific blocks
• High-speed serial interfaces
• Complex third-party IP integration
• Experience managing teams 
• Arithmetic pipeline design
• Floating-point design
• Design for test
• Synthesis 
• Timing Analysis 
• Logical Equivalence 
• Project Planning 
• Power Integrity  
• Silicon transistor knowledge 
• Design for test 

Benefits

In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers a competitive benefits package. 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.