Director Of Product Engineering
Graphcore is the Bristol-based AI compute company behind the Intelligence Processing Unit and the Poplar software stack, acquired by SoftBank in 2024 and expanding to 750 UK staff. They're hiring a Director of Product Engineering to lead semiconductor product engineering across yield, quality and cost optimisation, based in Bristol with hybrid working. This semiconductor engineering leadership role sits within the UK's AI compute hardware sector.
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About Graphcore
Graphcore is a Bristol-based AI semiconductor company founded in 2016 by serial semiconductor entrepreneurs Nigel Toon and Simon Knowles. Toon previously led XMOS and Picochip, while Knowles co-founded Element14 (acquired by Broadcom) and Icera (acquired by NVIDIA for $435M). The company developed Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs), novel AI accelerators designed from the ground up for machine learning workloads, alongside the proprietary Poplar graph programming framework. Graphcore raised $767M in total funding, reaching a $2.77B valuation, with backing from Sequoia Capital, Atomico, Amadeus, Microsoft, and others. In July 2024, SoftBank Group acquired Graphcore for approximately $500M to $600M. The company continues to operate from Bristol with plans to expand its UK headcount to 750.