Senior Principal GPU Architect

Imagination Technologies

The role: The PowerVR team produces the world’s leading family of ultra‑low power GPU IP cores. We are scaling our architecture team and are looking for GPU experts to help define the future generations of PowerVR GPU architecture. In this role, you will work closely with senior leadership to define the roadmap of our GPU family and deliver the architecture of our next‑generation GPUs.

Responsibilities:

• Work with a close team of passionate GPU architects with a relentless focus on efficiency
• Understand industry trends and their impact on the GPU
• Communicate with other stakeholders to gather new ideas and requirements for GPUs
• Be responsible for the investigation, specification, and delivery of detailed architectural feature specifications
• Perform deep analysis to produce solutions that meet required power, performance, area and bandwidth requirements
• Work with the research group to map novel algorithms to efficient implementations
• Work with the modelling team to explore and evaluate new ideas and produce performance targets
• Work with the product team to define a forward‑looking technology roadmap progressing in PPA and features every generation
• Assist the implementation team through design and verification
• Work with the performance team to review data and validate power, performance, area and bandwidth of completed implementations
• Participate in engineering reviews and recommend improvements
• Have the opportunity to influence and advance our long‑term technology roadmap
• Liaise with key customers and industry standards bodies such as Khronos where required
• Patent your inventions

About You:

Committed to making 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‑oriented 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:

• Experience with GPU architecture or similarly large, complex systems
• A good understanding of modern 3D graphics and/or compute APIs such as Vulkan, D3D12 and OpenCL
• An understanding of digital ASIC design methodologies and constraints
• The ability to plan, estimate and track your own work
• Experience in independently driving architecture exploration activities that conclude with tangible and appropriate feature specifications
• Understanding of design and verification challenges to make effective trade‑offs to maximise engineering ROI
• Clear communication of technical issues and justification of decisions to various audiences

You might also have:

• Strong maths and algorithm skills
• Experience in digital video
• Experience writing micro‑architecture specifications
• Experience analysing performance using hardware waves
• Experience analysing driver and compiler performance
• Understanding of functional safety standards such as ISO26262

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.

Additional Information:

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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.