The role

Reporting to the Director of Verification, GPU Hardware Engineering, we are looking for an individual with a proven track record in verification and technical leadership roles. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing technical leadership to Imagination GPU projects, influencing the Imagination GPU verification methodologies, plan and the delivery of our GPU roadmap.

You will:

• Be a key member of the Project Leadership team ensuring the successful planning, execution and delivery of Imagination GPU IPs
• Be accountable for the on-target delivery of Imagination’s GPU product requirements.
• Manage verification team for a GPU subsystem and be responsible for the career development of individual engineers.
• Provide expert verification advise for GPU architecture & microarchitecture.
• Define and enhance methodologies for highly complex GPU’s improving the overall quality, efficiency and velocity of the pre-silicon validation team.
• Interact closely with the architecture and design teams, influencing product definition, implementation and verification taking into consideration the commercial opportunities and engineering constraints
• Responsible for execution of test plans, test sequences and directed tests.
• Specific focus on end-to-end verification models, processes, techniques and workflows and familiarity with various verification techniques
• Strong experience developing sophisticated verification environments based on SystemVerilog, UVM, and/or SystemC.
• Proven skills to lead cross-organizational teams where participants are not direct reports, motivating technical contributors and driving innovation.
• Foster innovation and promote and drive best engineering practises within the project team
• Support activities around future roadmap features and performance requirements
• Assist with the recruitment of engineering talent

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:

• Have a proven track record of major technical lead roles in IP or SoC development, from initial concept to final release
• Have detailed knowledge of IP development flows including design, verification, and customer deliverables
• Have prior experience in partner interactions and you are comfortable with driving technical conversations with external parties
• Have significant experience in leading engineering teams in a global, multi-location environment
• Have experience managing medium sized teams
• Have strong leadership skills with the ability to influence stakeholders and inspire the engineering team
• Be able to operate in a dynamic environment and support decision making processes that set the direction of the engineering team
• Be able to demonstrate effective critical analysis and proven decision-making skills, with the capability to present complex ideas in simple terms

You might also have:

• Have expert knowledge in defining verification strategy and implementing complex testbenches for GPU micro-architectures
• Have experience in various project management methodologies

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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