Graduate CPU Hardware Engineer

The role

The role is for our fast-growing CPU Hardware team. We are expanding our CPU IP development from internal use to support an extensive portfolio offering highly competitive RISC-V CPUs, either as standalone IPs or as part of Imagination’s Heterogeneous Compute offering, which includes our world-class GPU and NNA (Neural Network Accelerator) compute elements. Our mission is to create through constant innovation the best-in-class RISC-V CPUs for a wide range of market segments and applications including automotive, data centres and mobiles.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to work with, and learn from experienced engineers. You can make significant impact to the future success of our wider team by applying your academic knowledge into innovations and developing cutting-edge designs.

No prior knowledge of digital hardware is required. Full training will be provided on both industry tools and cutting-edge techniques developed in-house, and you will be creating your own original ideas to push out the boundary of what can be achieved.

You will:

• Be a part of CPU HW team who focus on design of digital IPs and formally prove that they function correctly.
• Understand, crystallise, and extract the requirements for hardware blocks with the engineers throughout Imagination.
• Contribute into defining and evaluating a variety of hardware architectures for implementing designs as per requirements.
• Be Involved in design verification and debugging design issues in collaboration with other engineers.
• Automate common routine tasks using various programming languages.
• Research new techniques and produce patentable work in hardware design.

About you

Committed to making your customers, stakeholders and colleagues successful, you’re an excellent communicator, listener and collaborator who builds trusted partnerships by delivering what you say, when you say. You’re curious, solutions orientated and a world-class problem solver who constantly seeks opportunities to innovate and achieve the best possible outcome to the highest imaginable standard.

You'll have:

• Bachelor's degree or PhD in Electronics Engineering or Compute Science.
• The ability to communicate complex technical information concisely and unambiguously both verbally and in writing.
• Good diagnostic and analytical skills
• Attention to detail, a critical mind with the ability to think both abstractly and concretely.

You might also have:

• Knowledge of CPU/GPU architecture
• Programming language knowledge of C, C++, Python
• Understanding of digital design using Verilog / SystemVerilog/ VHDL
• Familiarity with Unix-based systems.

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.

So come join us if you're wanting that something more

Bring your talent, curiosity and expertise and we’ll help you do the rest. You’ll be part of one of the world’s most exciting companies who are one of the leaders in semiconductor IP solutions.

As a part of our team, you can help us transform, innovate, and inspire the lives of millions through our technology.

Additional information

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