The role

Imagination’s engineers are creating cutting edge silicon technologies to power the highest performing electronic products. We need you to put your development skills to the test to ensure our distributed and automation systems are high performing, reliable and can run a complex set of tools and process flows.

As part of the Engineering Systems team, you’ll be essential in helping develop distributed, fault tolerant and large-scale systems to manage our internal resources efficiently. 

You’ll be part of a team responsible for providing people with the tools and infrastructure to forge the future of tech.

You will:

• Develop, maintain and support our in-house automation systems
• Engage in the full process of service development from concept and design to development, testing and deployment, support and maintenance, within an agile environment
• Ensure the stability, scalability, performance, and efficiency of our internal resources & distributed systems (high availability - 99.99% up-time)
• Respond to internal customer tickets, incidents and conduct blameless postmortems 

About you

Committed to making your customers, stakeholders and colleagues successful, you’re an excellent communicator, listener and collaborator who builds trusted partnerships by delivering what you say, when you say. You’re curious, solutions orientated and a world-class problem solver who constantly seeks opportunities to innovate and achieve the best possible outcome to the highest imaginable standard.

You'll have:

• Demonstrated ability to develop object orientated programming solutions with Python 3
• Familiarity with multithreading and multiprocessing techniques and caveats e.g. parallelization, optimization, synchronization, locking mechanisms
• Knowledge of test-driven development and familiarity with the py.test testing framework e.g. coverage, mock, fixtures
• Unix knowledge including; system monitoring, shell scripting, debugging, resource balancing, access control

You might also have:

• Experience with databases - SQL / NOSQL
• Experience with distributed systems paradigms. (sockets, caching, server-client architecture, communication optimizations)
• Advanced Unix knowledge (pseudofilesystems, nfs, inodes, strace, syscalls, signals)
• Working knowledge of Windows and/or MacOS operating systems
• Experience in Virtualization tools : Docker, QEMU, Proxmox, VirtualBox
• Usage of monitoring and logging tools: Grafana, Zabbix, Nagios, Graylog
• Experience using version control & CI systems: Perforce, Git, Jenkins
• Knowledge of HPC Systems such as Univa/Altair Grid Engine or IBM LSF

Who we are

At Imagination, we love innovating. We spend our time creating the graphics and AI chips that are at the core of your favourite electronic products, and we are expanding our IP portfolio to include RISC-V CPUs as part of our efforts to create the best Compute offering in the market. We have a no-compromise approach to making our technology as high performance and power-efficient as possible, all while being squeezed into the smallest space possible.

It’s this relentless drive to push the boundaries of what’s possible that has led to Imagination powering more than 10 billion of the world’s most iconic electronic devices, from smartphones to smart TVs, from drones to self-driving cars.

We need your skills to help us continue to deliver technology that will impress the industry and our customers alike, ensuring that people everywhere can enjoy smarter and faster tech than ever before.

So come join us if you're wanting that something more

Bring your talent, curiosity and expertise and we’ll help you do the rest. You’ll be part of one of the world’s most exciting companies who are one of the leaders in semiconductor IP solutions.

As a part of our team, you can help us transform, innovate, and inspire the lives of millions through our technology.

Additional information

If you encounter accessibility barriers in the application process or if you have access needs and require support or adjustments to participate equitably in the recruitment process, please email recruitment@imgtec.com.

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Recruiter: Saj Haji