Staff / Principal Software Engineer (Hardware Tools Automation/SRE) in Bristol

The role Our GPU & AI Hardware IP teams need incredibly performant build and test workflows to help them deliver our upcoming IP roadmap – so we need a talented software engineer to help us build a revolutionary new automation system, and to keep our workflows running 24/7. This is a pioneering team with no bureaucracy – engineering‑led, iterating fast. We have a mandate for radical change.

We are building a new “designed for AI” automation system that uses AI, ML and algorithms to relentlessly optimise the workloads we execute across our on‑prem and cloud compute resources. This automation system will enable our teams in research, hardware, and software to schedule and trigger benchmarks and workloads on versions of our IP, to run on a variety of platforms (compute, emulation, FPGA, and real devices) and then view real‑time data and insight via a data platform and algorithms.

You will join us at the beginning of this exciting project and will help us build production infrastructure and workflows, migrate existing and new tools, and capture and display data for humans and algorithms to consume. Alongside all this new investment we need to keep the existing solutions running 24/7.

We are looking for a talented software engineer who is experienced in at least one part of our stack, who is excited by the chance to move old flows to new, and who may wish to be an individual contributor or would lead/line‑manage a team of up to six people.

You will:

• Collaborate with colleagues to create automation systems that transparently execute hardware IP tools and workloads across cloud/on‑prem compute and on hardware emulators
• Integrate hardware EDA tools into our workflows, capturing data about their use
• Write orchestrated workflows that are scheduled and triggered by users
• Help us deliver a culture of incredible service for our engineering customers

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 are:

• Comfortable in a Unix environment; writing and debugging shell scripts
• Capable of developing performant software solutions in Python
• Excited to work through complex problems
• Eager to learn from and play your part in a highly multidisciplinary team
• Great to work with; lifting the spirits of the team around you

Required Experience:

• Software build systems (e.g., Bazel)
• Hardware EDA tools (pre‑ or post‑synthesis)
• Writing resilient orchestrated workflows (e.g., Airflow, Flyte, Dagster, etc.)
• Enterprise‑scale cloud software development/deployment

Who We Are Imagination is a UK‑based company that creates silicon and software IP designed to give its customers an edge in competitive global technology markets. Its GPU and AI technologies enable outstanding power, performance, and area (PPA), fast time‑to‑market, and lower total cost of ownership. Products based on Imagination IP are used by billions of people across the globe in their smartphones, cars, homes, and workplaces. 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.

Why Join Us 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.

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