About Graphcore

How often do you get the chance to build a technology that transforms the future of humanity?

Graphcore products have set the standard in made-for-AI compute hardware and software, gaining global attention and industry acclaim. Now we are developing the next generation of artificial intelligence compute with systems that will allow AI researchers to develop more advanced models, help scientists unlock exciting new discoveries, and power companies around the world as they put AI at the heart of their business.

Graphcore recently joined SoftBank Group – bringing large and ongoing investment from one of the world’s leading backers of innovative AI companies.

Job Summary

Working within the Silicon verification team, the silicon verification engineer is responsible for a wide range of tasks within the silicon verification team. This person is responsible for verification activities within Graphcore, helping the silicon team meet the company objectives for quality silicon delivery.

The Team

The verification team sits within the Silicon design team. We are responsible for ensuring that the RTL created by the logical design team and used by the physical design team matches the architecture specification for Graphcore silicon.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Verification activities within the verification team
• Ensuring good communication between sites
• Verification planning, specification and closure of functional coverage
• Providing feedback to architects
• Test generation and failure diagnosis/triage
• Contributing to shared verification infrastructure

Candidate Profile

Essential:

• verification experience in relevant industry
• Proven leadership and planning skills
• Be highly motivated, a self starter, and a team player
• Ability to work across teams and programming languages to find root causes of deep and complex issues
• Experience of the verification process applied in CPU and/or ASIC environments
• System Verilog, Python, C++, Linux

Desirable

• UVM
• SVA
• Assembly languages
• LLVM, GCC
• DVCS e.g. Git
• SGE or other DRMS
• XML and XPath/XSLT
• Web programming – HTML/DOM, Javascript, SQL

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