Staff GPU Design Hardware Engineer

at  Imagination Technologies

WHO WE ARE

At Imagination, we love innovating. We spend our time creating the graphics and AI chips that are at the core of your favourite electronic products, and we are expanding our IP portfolio to include RISC-V CPUs as part of our efforts to create the best Compute offering in the market. We have a no-compromise approach to making our technology as high performance and power-efficient as possible, all while being squeezed into the smallest space possible.
It’s this relentless drive to push the boundaries of what’s possible that has led to Imagination powering more than 10 billion of the world’s most iconic electronic devices, from smartphones to smart TVs, from drones to self-driving cars.
We need your skills to help us continue to deliver technology that will impress the industry and our customers alike, ensuring that people everywhere can enjoy smarter and faster tech than ever before.

This position is a unique opportunity to exercise your hardware design skills on cutting edge designs within the prestigious PowerVR Hardware Graphics group. Here you will exercise your skills on key components that meet latest demands and improvements for graphics, with a keen focus on increased optimisation and performance per mm2 and per mW.

You will:

• Be responsible for the investigation, specification, implementation and final delivery of our GPU micro-architecture components
• Participate in the feasibility investigation of proposed micro-architectures
• Perform deep analysis in order to produce solutions that meet the required frequency, power, area and performance requirements in collaboration with other team members
• Work closely with the verification team to deliver high-quality RTL designs, supporting the creation of the relevant verification plan, closure and sign-off
• Be responsible for delivering the entire design flow from RTL coding to front-end implementation tasks
• Be responsible for the definition, effort estimation and tracking of your own work
• Participate in design and verification reviews and recommend improvements
• Have the opportunity to influence and advance our GPU design methodology
• Have the opportunity to lead, coach and mentor other members of the team
• Use leading edge integrated circuit verification techniques and methodologies such as formal property verification (FPV) working at both module level and the IP level