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# Silicon Infrastructure Engineer

- **Company:** Fractile
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Corona (Software Development Kit), Programming Tools, Electronic Design Automation, Python (Programming Language), Ansible, Prometheus, Zabbix, Backend, Containerization, Kubernetes, Build Tools, Slurm, Front End Software Development, Physical Design, Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/silicon-infrastructure-engineer-fractile-8291486

## About the Role

* Experience of silicon EDA tooling
 * Experience working with build systems tooling, such as Bazel.
 * Experience working with workload management tools, such as Slurm.
 * Experience working with container orchestration tools, such as Docker, and Kubernetes.
 * Experience working with infrastructure as code, such as Ansible, or Terraform and maintaining compute infrastructure
 * Experience of setup and monitor observation tooling for resource utilisation, machine failures, and more (e.g. Prometheus/Zabbix)

Preferred Qualifications:

 * Proficient in modern software development language(s) especially Python
 * Proficient dealing with modern build systems e.g. Bazel, Pants
 * Past experience with diagnosing and resolving network/storage/CPU/RAM bottlenecks across complex workloads.
 * Experience deploying and managing a grid compute system (Slurm/LSF/SGE).
 * Proficiency with containerisation frameworks (Docker/Singularity)

## Description

* Create and support Python tooling and silicon verification and physical design workflows centred around silicon EDA tooling, which will require coding and build-system knowledge to assist with tasks faced by different teams.
 * Bazel build system support for new silicon EDA tools required for throughout the chip lifecycle
 * Create and improve Python developer tools across frontend and backend silicon teams
 * Improve existing workflows to make them cacheable and reproducible
 * Work with the engineering team to build and optimise their workloads


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