Director, Silicon Logical Design
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Job description
Lead and scale Graphcore's Silicon Logical Design group, owning strategy, technical direction, execution quality and team development for microarchitecture and RTL design.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · Bristol, Cambridge
What you'll do
- Define and execute the strategic roadmap for Logical Design aligned with silicon and product strategy
- Lead, grow and mentor a high-performing RTL and microarchitecture design organisation
- Establish best-in-class design methodologies, documentation standards and quality metrics
- Drive continuous improvement across team structure, workflows, tooling and design processes
- Provide technical oversight of microarchitecture specification and RTL development across major blocks and subsystems
- Guide architectural feasibility studies and contribute to architectural trade-offs and microarchitecture definition
- Oversee integration of third-party IP, complex application-specific blocks and high-performance custom designs
- Ensure robust design sign-off through linting, synthesis, CDC/RDC, timing closure and coverage metrics
- Partner closely with Physical Design, Verification, DFT, Architecture and Program Management teams
- Foster strong communication across teams and global sites on priorities, risks and deliverables
- Support silicon bring-up and debug with expert guidance on RTL behaviour and architecture
- Own delivery of high-quality, on-schedule RTL for multiple parallel silicon programs
- Establish scalable project planning and tracking practices, including resource planning and risk mitigation
- Champion design automation and infrastructure improvements to accelerate productivity and design quality
What we're looking for
- Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a related field
- Extensive experience in digital logical design, microarchitecture and RTL development for large-scale high-performance silicon
- Proven success leading and developing technical teams in a semiconductor environment
- Deep expertise in SystemVerilog or VHDL and familiarity with modern digital design flows
- Strong ability to diagnose and resolve complex design issues, including via scripting/programming
- Demonstrated excellence in cross-functional leadership and communication across global teams
- Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities in fast-paced environments
Nice to have
- Processor or accelerator microarchitecture
- High-speed serial interfaces and complex, high-bandwidth IP blocks
- Arithmetic pipeline design and floating point datapaths
- Advanced synthesis, timing analysis, power analysis and logical equivalence checking
- Design-for-test methodologies
- Power integrity and silicon device-level understanding
- Experience with silicon bring-up and post-silicon validation
- Program planning and multi-project execution leadership
Your team
Logical Design team (Silicon department)
The Logical Design team delivers the micro-architecture and RTL that realise advanced chip architectures; a multi-site team.
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About Graphcore
Building the future of AI compute
A team of semiconductor, software and AI experts creating the complete AI compute stack from silicon and software to datacenter-scale infrastructure, part of the SoftBank Group
Mission
Bring together the brightest minds to solve the toughest problems and let everyone make an impact on the company, products and the future of AI
Key facts
- Semiconductors / AI compute
- Part of the SoftBank Group with significant long-term investment
- Expanding its teams around the world
Partners & customers
What they value
- Everyone has the opportunity to make an impact