Graphcore
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How Graphcore hires
Truth index
A 88/100
Median time to fill
69 days
Ghost roles
12%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Graphcore scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 163 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 12% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 69 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
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Overview
Graphcore is a British semiconductor company founded in Bristol in 2016 that designs the Intelligence Processing Unit, a processor architected specifically for machine learning rather than adapted from graphics. Its chips place large amounts of memory directly on the die and expose fine-grained parallelism, an approach aimed at sparse and irregular models that map poorly onto conventional accelerators. The company sells IPU systems and the Poplar software stack to research and enterprise customers, and has operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of SoftBank Group since its acquisition in 2024.
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UK risks tech 'talent drain' to US if pension funds fail to back sector
Co-founder of British chipmaker Graphcore, which has been bought by Japan's SoftBank, issues warning
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Pioneering UK microchip maker bought by Japanese conglomerate
Graphcore was once considered one of the country's most promising start-ups, with a £2bn valuation.
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SoftBank acquires UK AI chipmaker Graphcore
U.K. chip company Graphcore has been formally acquired by Japan's SoftBank; terms of the deal were not disclosed.
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Graphcore joins SoftBank Group to build next generation of AI compute
Graphcore today announced that the company has been acquired by SoftBank Group.
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Graphcore employees have share value wiped as sale to SoftBank agreed
The news follows months of reports that the UK chip company is in talks with the Japanese multinational investor.
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Graphcore over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
167
Postings analysed
266
Stack modernity
78/100AI adopter
Languages
Python81%
C++47%
Bash10%
SQL5%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch15%
PyTorch C++11%
JAX9%
Triton6%
Databases
ElasticSearch2%
OpenSearch2%
InfluxDB1%
Amazon Aurora<1%
Cloud & platforms
Linux52%
Kubernetes18%
GitHub Actions10%
GitHub8%
AI & ML
BERT2%
VLM1%
Claude1%
LLM<1%
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Full Graphcore tech stack
167 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$121k
Typical range
$68k – $212k
Open positions
17
16
Jobs
Senior
62.5%
Staff
37.5%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 10 | $106k | $90k – $212k |
| Staff | 6 | $121k | $90k – $121k |
Highest paying role
Senior Post Silicon Validation Engineer (Bringup)
$212k
Normalized to USD per year
All salaries at Graphcore
By role, level and city, against the market · 17 jobs with pay
Products
Poplar SDK
Poplar is Graphcore's software stack with compilers, libraries and framework integrations for PyTorch and TensorFlow. It maps model graphs onto the IPU's distributed memory and compute.
graphcore.ai
IPU-POD
IPU-POD systems combine many IPUs with host servers and high-speed fabric into rack-scale training clusters. They let customers scale from a single machine to large installations with the same software.
graphcore.ai
Bow IPU
The Bow IPU was the first processor to ship with wafer-on-wafer three-dimensional stacking. The added power delivery die raises clock speed and performance over the previous generation.
graphcore.ai
Intelligence Processing Unit
The IPU is Graphcore's processor designed from scratch for machine learning, with over a thousand independent cores and large on-chip memory. Its architecture targets models with irregular or sparse computation patterns.
graphcore.ai
People
Nigel Toon
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Nigel Toon co-founded Graphcore in 2016 and leads it as chief executive. He previously founded and sold two other semiconductor companies, Picochip and Element 14.
Simon Knowles
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Simon Knowles co-founded Graphcore and designed the IPU architecture. He previously co-founded Element 14 and Icera and has decades of experience in processor design.
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
71/100
Growing
Open positions
163
43 opened / 36 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
69 days
faster than 19% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Hardware
24% ▼
DevOps
20% ▼
Industrial Engineering
16% ▼
Backend
8%
AI/ML
5% ▲
Management
5%
Actively hiring for Hardware (+11 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Threat Modeling to stack
Oct 2026
Added Google Sheets to stack
Oct 2026
Added SharePoint to stack
Sep 2026
Added OrCAD to stack
Sep 2026
Added TypeScript to stack
Sep 2026
Added Streamlit to stack
Sep 2026
Added Prefect to stack
Sep 2026
Added Flask to stack
Sep 2026
Added FastAPI to stack
Sep 2026
Added AWS Lambda to stack
Sep 2026
Added Amazon S3 to stack
Sep 2026
Added Amazon Aurora to stack
Sep 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
16
Hiring now
10
Countries
10
Busiest office
Bristol
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Bristol
United Kingdom
HQ
Bristol HQ
78 open roles 44 posted in 90 days 81% engineering 500-1000 est. staff $132k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps, Hardware, AI/ML
Austin
United States
Plant / site
US - Austin
35 open roles 55 posted in 90 days 60% engineering 500-1000 est. staff $212k Avg Salary
hires for Hardware, Industrial Engineering, DevOps
6801 River Place Boulevard
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Engineering / R&D
Cambridge
30 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 200-500 est. staff $132k Avg Salary
hires for DevOps, AI/ML, Hardware
Bengaluru
India
Regional office
Bengaluru
23 open roles 9 posted in 90 days 52% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Hardware, DevOps
Karnataka 560048
Gdańsk
Poland
Engineering / R&D
Gdańsk
18 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 89% engineering 6% remote 200-500 est. staff $100k Avg Salary
hires for Backend, DevOps, QA
30th Floor
Milpitas
United States
Engineering / R&D
US - Milpitas
18 open roles 11 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Operations, Industrial Engineering, Hardware
London
United Kingdom
Engineering / R&D
Bristol
16 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 50-200 est. staff $132k Avg Salary
hires for AI/ML, DevOps, Hardware
7-12 Tavistock Square
Tainan
Taiwan
Plant / site
Taiwan
6 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 33% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, QA, Hardware
Hsinchu
Taiwan
Plant / site
Hsinchu
5 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 20% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, QA, Leadership
No. 118, Ciyun Road,
Taipei
Taiwan
Plant / site
US - Austin
3 open roles 2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Industrial Engineering, Leadership
Jingmao 2nd Road
Paris
France
Regional office
France
Seoul
South Korea
Regional office
South Korea
Singapore
Singapore
Regional office
Singapore
Oslo
Norway
Regional office
Oslo
Dublin
Ireland
Regional office
Dublin
Newport
United Kingdom
Regional office
Newport
Jobs
≈ $103k – $234k per year (Estimated) • In office • Bachelor's Degree • Austin
Python
MATLAB
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≈ $155k – $281k per year (Estimated) • In office • Milpitas
Agile
Scrum
Kanban
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≈ $101k – $210k per year (Estimated) • In office • Bristol
Python
SQL
HPC
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≈ $21k – $48k per year (Estimated) • In office • Tainan
Python
SQL
HPC
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≈ $77k – $183k per year (Estimated) • In office • Bristol
Machine Learning
Management
Agile
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≈ $104k – $193k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Master's Degree • Cambridge • London • Bristol
Python
C++
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
CUDA Toolkit
JAX
PyTorch
CUDA
Triton
InfiniBand
NVLink
Machine Learning
DevOps
Kubernetes
HPC
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≈ $112k – $209k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Master's Degree • London • Cambridge • Bristol
Python
C++
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
CUDA Toolkit
JAX
PyTorch
CUDA
Triton
InfiniBand
NVLink
Machine Learning
DevOps
Kubernetes
HPC
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≈ $103k – $191k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Master's Degree • Bristol • London • Cambridge
Python
C++
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
CUDA Toolkit
JAX
PyTorch
CUDA
Triton
InfiniBand
NVLink
Machine Learning
DevOps
Kubernetes
HPC
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≈ $178k – $363k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Milpitas
Python
C++
NCCL
Machine Learning
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≈ $144k – $275k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Austin
Python
C++
NCCL
Machine Learning
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≈ $157k – $321k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Austin
Python
C++
NCCL
Machine Learning
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≈ $25k – $58k per year (Estimated) • In office • Bengaluru
Python
C++
RTOS
CI/CD
Linux
Apply
Financials
Total raised
$1.1B
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
21
Investors
5
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | Valuation | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2026 | — | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2025 | — | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2025 | — | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2025 | — | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2024 | — | — | Details |
| Acquired | 2024 | $600M | — | |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2023 | — | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2022 | — | — | Details |
| Grant | 2021 | $7.2k | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2021 | — | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2020 | — | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2020 | — | — | Details |
| Series D | 2020 | $222M | $2.8B | |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2019 | — | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2019 | — | — | Details |
| Series C | 2018 | $200M | $1.7B | |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2017 | — | — | Details |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2017 | — | — | Details |
| Series B | 2017 | $50M | — | |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2016 | — | — | Details |
| Series A | 2016 | $30M | — |
Key Investors
Dell Technologies Capital
Dell Technologies Capital backed Graphcore and helped bring IPU systems to market as rack servers. The firm invests in infrastructure and semiconductor startups.
delltechnologies.com
Microsoft
Microsoft invested in Graphcore and trialled IPU systems in Azure. It was one of the first large cloud providers to evaluate the architecture.
microsoft.com
Atomico
Atomico co-led Graphcore's first institutional round. The London firm invests in European technology companies from Series A onward.
atomico.com
Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital led Graphcore's Series C round in 2018. The firm has funded semiconductor companies across several technology cycles.
sequoiacap.com
SoftBank Group
SoftBank Group acquired Graphcore outright in 2024 and now owns the company. The purchase fits its broader strategy of assembling AI semiconductor assets alongside Arm.
softbank.jp