Early Career System Architect
Job description
An early-career System Architect role supporting senior architects in defining and refining hardware system architecture, from chip interfaces and interconnects to board design, thermal management and system integration. The role offers hands-on exposure to prototyping, bring-up and system testing as ideas become real hardware.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote
- Languages
- English
What you'll do
- Support senior architects in defining and refining system architecture
- Get hands-on exposure to early prototyping, bring-up, and system testing as ideas become real hardware
- Work closely with digital design, verification, firmware and software teams to make sure architecture choices translate cleanly into working silicon and reliable hardware platforms
What we're looking for
- A degree (or final-year study) in Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field
- Exposure to system-level design concepts — power, thermal, I/O, memory, or interconnect architectures — through academic projects, internships, or personal projects
- Some familiarity with digital design flows, gained through coursework, internships, or personal projects
- Comfortable working across disciplines — hardware, firmware, and software
- Strong communicator, able to explain technical ideas clearly to others
Nice to have
- Exposure to AI acceleration, HPC, or data-centric architectures
- Hands-on FPGA prototyping or hardware bring-up
- Familiarity with SystemC or MATLAB
Your team
System Architecture
Sits within the Hardware organisation at Fractile, responsible for designing the chips and systems that power the AI inference accelerator — from chip-level architecture and interconnects, through board design and thermal management, to full system integration and bring-up.
Benefits
- Competitive salary reflective of your experience and the specialist nature of the role
- Meaningful equity so everyone shares in the value creation
- Private Medical, Dental and Vision
- Contributory Pension
- 25 Days holiday plus bank holidays
- Life/Critical Illness Insurance
- Diverse & fun office
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About Fractile
Fractile was founded in 2022 on the bet that the world's most capable AI systems would be limited in their impact by the time taken to produce useful outputs. The company builds chips and systems that efficiently generate output at thousands of tokens per second while handling the complexity and capacity challenges of operating large models at very long contexts.
Mission
To radically re-invent the hardware that frontier AI models run on, so that inference speed no longer limits the impact of the world's most capable AI systems.
Key facts
- 2022
- Founded in 2022
- Recently raised $220M from investors including Founders Fund and Accel
- Work involves technologies subject to UK, US and other international export control regulations
Partners & customers
What they value
- We believe the hardest problems get solved by the broadest range of minds
- Committed to Equal Employment Opportunity through attracting and retaining a diverse team and building an inclusive environment