Staff/Principal Systems Architect

The role

PowerVR’s team develops a leading family of extremely low-power GPU IP cores. The architecture group is expanding and is seeking GPU specialists to help shape the next generations of PowerVR GPU architecture. In this position, you’ll work closely with senior company leadership to define the GPU roadmap and contribute to the architecture of upcoming GPU products. If you want to be part of a team that sits at the heart of innovation, this could be a strong fit.

What you will do

• Collaborate with a small, highly motivated GPU architecture team focused on efficiency.
• Track market and industry developments and assess how they affect GPU direction.
• Engage with stakeholders to capture new ideas and product requirements.
• Own the investigation, definition, and delivery of detailed architectural feature specifications.
• Carry out in-depth analysis to arrive at solutions that satisfy power, performance, area, and bandwidth targets.
• Partner with the research group to translate new algorithms into efficient implementations.
• Work with modelling specialists to assess new concepts and establish performance goals.
• Support the product organization in building a forward-looking technology roadmap that improves PPA and features with each generation.
• Assist implementation teams during design and verification.
• Review completed implementations with the performance team and validate power, performance, area, and bandwidth results.
• Take part in engineering reviews and suggest improvements.
• Contribute to the long-term technology direction of the business.
• Work with major customers and relevant industry standards groups, including Khronos, when needed.
• File patents for your inventions.

About you

You should be someone who is committed to helping customers, stakeholders, and colleagues succeed. Strong communication, active listening, and collaboration skills are essential, along with the ability to build trusted relationships by following through on commitments. You should also be inquisitive, solution-focused, and an excellent problem solver who actively looks for ways to innovate and deliver the best outcome to the highest standard.

What you should bring

• Background in GPU architecture or other large, complex systems.
• Working knowledge of modern 3D graphics and/or compute APIs such as Vulkan, D3D12, and OpenCL.
• Understanding of digital ASIC design methods and constraints.
• Ability to plan, estimate, and monitor your own work.
• Proven experience independently leading architecture exploration work through to concrete and appropriate feature specifications.
• Awareness of design and verification challenges, with the ability to make trade-offs that improve engineering return on investment.
• Ability to explain technical topics clearly and defend decisions to different audiences.

Nice to have

• Strong mathematical and algorithmic ability.
• Experience with digital video.
• Experience creating micro-architecture specifications.
• Experience analysing performance using hardware waves.
• Experience analysing driver and compiler performance.
• Understanding of functional safety standards such as ISO26262.

About Imagination

Imagination is a UK-based company building silicon and software IP that helps customers compete in global technology markets. Its GPU and AI technologies are designed to deliver strong power, performance, and area efficiency, faster time-to-market, and lower total cost of ownership. Products using Imagination IP are found in billions of devices worldwide, including smartphones, cars, homes, and workplaces.

The company is looking for people who can help it continue delivering technology that stands out to both the industry and its customers. Joining the team means contributing to innovation that reaches millions of people through smarter, faster technology.

If you want more from your career, bring your talent, curiosity, and expertise and be part of one of the world’s most exciting semiconductor IP companies.

Additional information

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