Senior Datapath Design Engineer

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Senior Datapath Design Engineer

Job no: 502435
Work type: Experienced Professional
Location: Cambridge UK, Manchester UK, Kings Langley UK, Bristol UK
Categories: Graphics

The role

The GPU Datapath team is a unique applied research team with a remit both to research and to deliver high-performing hardware. You will be a vital part of the development of innovative mathematical components. We are looking to grow the part of the team that focuses on architecting and designing numerical hardware and includes formal verification. Working in the prestigious PowerVR Graphics division, you will contribute to the development of our XE series of GPUs and others. With breadth and depth, this role offers a unique view of the company's IP and the opportunity to become a subject specialist.

You will:

• Work within a small friendly team of world-class design and verification experts.
• Understand, crystallise, and extract the requirements for arithmetic hardware blocks with engineers throughout Imagination.
• Design and evaluate a variety of hardware architectures for implementing arithmetic-intensive blocks.
• Perform formal verification on the resultant design using industry-leading tools.
• Root cause design issues in collaboration with other engineers.
• Produce patentable work in a research and invention-focused environment.
• Educate other members of the company on Datapath 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:

• A degree in Mathematics, Computer Science or Electronic Engineering.
• Knowledge of digital hardware and digital design.
• The ability to communicate complex technical information concisely and unambiguously both verbally and in writing.
• Tenacity and the ability to work and communicate with others to get things done.
• Attention to detail, a critical mind with the ability to think both abstractly and concretely.
• Familiarity with Unix-based systems and at least one HDL.

You might also have:

• Experience optimising arithmetic hardware.
• Appreciation of low power design techniques.
• Familiarity with scientific computing and numerical libraries.
• Experience with computer assisted verification and writing rigorous mathematical proofs.
• Software programming experience, especially with C, C++, Python or shell.

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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Advertised: 08 Apr 2024 GMT Daylight Time
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