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:
If you encounter accessibility barriers in the application process or require support or adjustments to participate equitably, please email recruitment@imgtec.com.
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.
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