Hardware Project Manager, Graphcore
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2+ days a week in office
Advanced AI systems and services
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Advanced AI systems and services
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make machine learning faster, easier and more intelligent.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience delivering electronics hardware in an engineering environment
- Hands-on experience working with electronics design, PCB development, mechanical, or hardware test teams
- Strong understanding of hardware development lifecycles, including build and test phases
- Experience coordinating multi-disciplinary engineering teams
- Familiarity with Agile or hybrid delivery practices and planning tools
- Comfortable working close to engineers and technical leads
- Able to translate detailed engineering activity into clear delivery plans and meaningful status reporting
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Hardware Project Manager to drive the delivery of complex electronics hardware across multidisciplinary engineering teams
- This role works closely with engineers to plan, track, and deliver hardware through design, build, bring-up, and test—keeping work predictable, visible, and on track
- Plan and track delivery of electronics hardware from early concept through schematic, PCB layout, prototype build, bring-up, and test
- Break down complex hardware work into clear, deliverable tasks with engineering leads
- Coordinate across electronics design, PCB layout, signal & power integrity, mechanical, and test teams
- Facilitate technical planning sessions, design reviews, and delivery checkpoints
- Identify technical, schedule, and resource risks early and drive mitigation
- Maintain clear visibility of dependencies and critical path items
- Provide concise, accurate status updates to programme and business stakeholders
- Introduce lightweight planning and tracking practices that suit hardware development
- Support teams using tools like Jira while adapting delivery approaches (milestone-driven, Agile, Kanban, time-boxed iterations)
- Improve predictability and transparency without adding unnecessary process overhead
Our take
The hardware required to train AI models comes at a high cost, both financially and environmentally, producing millions of dollars in expenses and hundreds of tons of greenhouse gases. In response, Graphcore develops accelerator chips designed to expedite AI system training while significantly reducing power consumption.
AI accelerators like those crafted by Graphcore specialise in enhancing specific AI applications, such as artificial neural networks, deep learning, and machine learning. Utilising multicore designs and prioritising low-precision arithmetic or in-memory computing, these accelerators elevate the performance of large AI algorithms, achieving breakthrough results in natural language processing and computer vision.
Graphcore has ambitious plans to create an AI supercomputer, aiming to be one of the most powerful in its class. However, progress on this has extended beyond its planned 2024 debut, and the company was purchased by Softbank later that year. Though the acquisition by the Japanese multinational lowered Graphcore's valuation and highlighted structural problems in the local financing of UK tech pioneers, the buyout will undoubtedly aid the company in its ambitions to shape the future of AI computing.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2020
$222m
SERIES E
Feb 2020
$150m
SERIES D
Total funding: $682m
Company benefits
- Work-Life Balance: We believe you should have a good work-life balance. Everyone's situation is different, so we offer flexible working arrangements and start and finish times, allowing you to choose when to work from home or come into the office
- Wellbeing: We want to ensure that our employees have the resources and support they need to prioritise their health and wellbeing
- Healthcare: We offer Private Medical Insurance (PMI) to our employees to help them take care of their health and that of their loved ones
- Progression: We prioritise learning and development as an integral part of our culture at Graphcore. Our Talent Development team is dedicated to equipping all our employees with the necessary tools, resources, and support to enhance their skills and reach their full potential in their careers
- Pension: We believe that our employees deserve the best when it comes to planning for their future
- Income Protection: Graphcore understands that unforeseen circumstances can happen, and we want to ensure our employees have the necessary financial security in place
Company HQ
Old City, Bristol, UK
Leadership
Nigel Toon
(Co-Founder & Exec Chair)Previously the President and CEO at picoChip Designs (processors for telecoms). As well as the VP and GM of Europe at Altera (semiconductors, merged with Intel).
Simon Knowles
(Co-Founder & CTO)Founded two successful semiconductor companies, Element14 and Icera, for a combined value of over $1 billion.
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