EDA Infrastructure Engineer

Fractile (Bristol, England, United Kingdom) – EDA Infrastructure Engineer.

Fractile is building silicon, systems and software redefining the frontier of AI: running the world’s most advanced models at radically higher speed and lower cost. We have an exceptional team across hardware and software capable of bringing about this change, and we are growing fast to meet demand and deliver our product  are seeking an exceptional Infrastructure Engineer to develop and maintain the foundations of our silicon development, supporting a wide range of computationally-intensive workloads while scaling up capacity by orders‑of‑magnitude.

In this role you will work together with our build flow lead to provide efficient, scalable processes and compute to our front‑end and back‑end silicon engineering teams. You will need to work closely with engineers across the organisation to resolve bottlenecks and optimise workflows, to provide an environment that enables our team to execute at scale and with speed.

• Create and support tooling and workflows centred around EDA tooling, requiring coding and build‑system knowledge to assist with tasks faced by different teams.
• Deploy and maintain compute infrastructure (cloud or on‑premise) using an infrastructure‑as‑code (IaC) framework such as Ansible or Terraform.
• Manage key network services such as a VPN, central authentication (LDAP), file/object storage, and license servers.
• Maintain a cluster compute solution, capable of scheduling many types of job with large resource requirements.
• Set up and monitor observation tooling for resource utilisation, machine failures, and more (e.g. Prometheus/Zabbix).
• Work with the engineering team to build and optimise their workloads.

• Experience of EDA tooling.
• Experience working with workload management tools such as Slurm.
• Experience with container orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with infrastructure as code such as Ansible or Terraform.
• Experience with build‑system tooling such as Bazel.

• Proficient in modern software development languages and infrastructure‑as‑code frameworks.
• Proficient in the use and administration of Linux/Unix systems, and ideally in managing shared compute environments.
• Past experience 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 such as Docker or Singularity.

• Ownership and execution: you will have full agency to drive your work forward.
• Rapid iteration: we all work directly with top leadership to move from idea to hardware on ambitious timelines.
• Full‑stack engagement: hardware, software, silicon, and modelling teams all work closely together to create a product with generational impact.
• Optimistic and pragmatic: we possess the will to win, and to do the hard work to get us there.
• Team‑player mentality: the mission is bigger than any of us, and we have the curiosity and technical focus to see the best idea shipped, no matter who’s it is.

• Founded in 2022, team of 70+ which is expanding rapidly.
• Modern, open offices in London and Bristol.
• Collaborative, problem‑solving culture built on deep curiosity, entrepreneurial initiative and technical fluency.

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Mid‑Senior level

Full‑time

Information Technology

Computer Hardware Manufacturing

Location:

Bristol, England, United Kingdom