Signal & Power Integrity Team Lead

Lead the team making high-speed connections and power delivery reliable across Graphcore’s AI compute hardware.

You’ll help specialists shape requirements, design margins and acceptance criteria across silicon, package, PCB and system boundaries. Your team’s constraints and verification evidence will help design owners make informed trade-offs before problems become harder to resolve.

You’ll line-manage engineers, shape their development, agree achievable delivery commitments, and plan for tools, licences and compute capacity. You’ll coordinate analysis and hardware correlation, ensuring discrepancies receive specialist attention and integrity issues reach review and closure.

The methods and knowledge your team builds will outlast individual designs, strengthening how Graphcore approaches future signal and power challenges. Grow your leadership across interconnected engineering disciplines, combining people development with judgement that influences hardware from architecture to bring-up.

Signal and power integrity specialists retain technical ownership, rather than relying on one person to solve every problem. You’ll connect their work with design, firmware, test, bring-up and manufacturing colleagues.

Programme management owns the integrated plan. You’ll raise capacity conflicts early, bring practical options and make delivery confidence visible.

Decisions depend on evidence, documented assumptions and proportionate peer review. You’ll encourage challenge, seek specialist input when needed and escalate unresolved disagreements before they hold work back.

• People leadership that develops engineers, sets expectations and addresses difficult performance issues, with readiness for formal line management.
• Strong engineering foundations and experience in signal or power integrity, with sufficient understanding of the other discipline to challenge approaches.
• Experience coordinating specialist engineering delivery, including estimates, work allocation, dependencies and capacity, in partnership with programme management.
• Clear cross-disciplinary communication that explains risks and trade-offs, secures specialist contributions and helps stakeholders reach decisions.
• First-principles reasoning and understanding of simulation, measurement and correlation, including model limitations and when to seek specialist review.
• Evidence of improving engineering methods or shared knowledge, while maintaining clear ownership through technical investigations.

While we have outlined a set of requirements, we value transferable skills and diverse experiences. We also welcome engineers returning to the profession after a career break, including through returnship routes.

Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or support visa applications for this role.

Graphcore is one of the world’s leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute. It is developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure that will unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs and power the widespread adoption of AI solutions across every industry.

As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. Together, they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone.

Graphcore’s teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives. A melting pot of AI research specialists, silicon designers, software engineers and systems architects, Graphcore brings together deep expertise to solve complex problems and deliver meaningful progress in AI compute.

Ready to lead the specialists behind reliable AI compute hardware? Apply for the Signal and Power Integrity Team Lead role in Bristol.