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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.
Technologies
Tech DNA
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Stack modernity
77/100
How modern this stack is, based on technology relevance, AI adoption and the share of legacy tools.
In-demand technologies
Python
126 jobs
Required
$135k
-25% vs market
C++
80 jobs
Required
CI/CD
45 jobs
Required
$135k
-16% vs market
HPC
39 jobs
Required
PyTorch
30 jobs
Required
Kubernetes
29 jobs
Required
PyTorch C++
25 jobs
Required
GitHub
25 jobs
Required
Salary medians are calculated from this company's open jobs and compared with the market.
Industry adoption
Python
19%
JavaScript
15%
CI/CD
15%
AWS
15%
SQL
13%
Kubernetes
13%
Share of companies in the same industry that use each technology.
Stack changes
Mixture of Experts
Aug 2026
OpenAI Codex
Aug 2026
IAM
Aug 2026
ROCm
Aug 2026
GitLab
Aug 2026
Time Series Forecasting
Aug 2026
NCCL
Aug 2026
Edge AI
Aug 2026
Technologies recently added to or removed from this company's stack - a signal of tech migrations and new initiatives.
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Salary insights
Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$135k
Typical range
$135k
Open positions
3
3
Jobs
Senior
100%
| Level | Jobs | Median | Typical range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senior | 3 | $135k | $135k |
Highest paying role
Senior Linux Distribution & Validation Engineer
$135k
Normalized to USD per year
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
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.
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.
Growth
Hiring Momentum
55/100
Growing
Open positions
164
6 opened / 9 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
70 days
faster than 23% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~10 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.
DevOps
25% ▲
Hardware
20% ▲
Backend
18% ▼
QA
14%
AI/ML
11% ▼
Executive
2% ▲
Actively hiring for DevOps (+7 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Triton to stack
Aug 2026
Added OpenCL to stack
Aug 2026
+5 jobs in a week
Aug 2026
Added Keras to stack
Jul 2026
Added Simulink to stack
Jul 2026
Added AutoCAD to stack
Jul 2026
Added Helm to stack
Jul 2026
Added Buildkite to stack
Jul 2026
Added Azure DevOps to stack
Jul 2026
Jobs
≈ $91k – $153k per year (Estimated) • In office • Gdańsk
C++
Python
LLVM
PyTorch C++
AI/ML
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≈ $119k – $260k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Austin
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≈ $31k – $64k per year (Estimated) • In office • Bengaluru
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≈ $80k – $155k per year (Estimated) • In office • Internship • Bachelor's Degree • Austin
Altium Designer
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≈ $88k – $183k per year (Estimated) • In office • London
C++
Python
CMake
DevOps
Docker
Podman
HPC
QA
Pytest
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≈ $88k – $183k per year (Estimated) • In office • Cambridge
C++
Python
CMake
DevOps
Docker
Podman
HPC
QA
Pytest
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≈ $88k – $183k per year (Estimated) • In office • Bristol
C++
Python
CMake
DevOps
Docker
Podman
HPC
QA
Pytest
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≈ $56k – $151k per year (Estimated) • In office • Contractor • Bristol
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≈ $167k – $313k per year (Estimated) • In office • Austin
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Python
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≈ $46k – $99k per year (Estimated) • In office • Bengaluru
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≈ $26k – $68k per year (Estimated) • In office • Bengaluru
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Financials
Total raised
$1.1B
Latest round
Acquired
Funding rounds
5
Investors
5
Funding rounds
| Round | Announced | Amount | Valuation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acquired | 2024 | $600M | — |
| Series D | 2020 | $222M | $2.8B |
| Series C | 2018 | $200M | $1.7B |
| Series B | 2017 | $50M | — |
| 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