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How AI scale-up Graphcore doubled its Engineering team with an Embedded Recruitment solution

Graphcore, a leading AI tech unicorn, partnered with Scede to scale their recruitment function during a period of hyper growth.

Through Scede’s embedded recruitment solution, Graphcore was able to double its UK engineering headcount while maintaining high-quality hires.

The partnership not only helped Graphcore build a world-class talent acquisition engine but also laid the groundwork for future recruiting success by implementing best-in-class tools, processes, and a data-driven approach to hiring.

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About Graphcore

Graphcore is a UK-based AI unicorn, leading the machine intelligence revolution with its state-of-the-art Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs).

By enabling innovations across industries, Graphcore aims to democratise intelligence and drive the next wave of advances in AI.

With their groundbreaking technology, including the Bow IPU, Graphcore is reshaping the future of machine intelligence.

We needed to scale extremely fast and extremely well. When you’re looking at hiring at scale, traditional solutions don’t work. Having partnered with Scede before and been very happy with their approach, I knew from the get-go that I needed to engage them at Graphcore

Sophie Froment
VP People

Key challenges

  • Scaling at pace while maintaining high standards for hires
  • Establishing a recruitment engine and systems from scratch
  • Attracting top-tier engineering talent for highly specialized roles
  • Creating a cohesive recruitment strategy that could grow with the company
  • Ensuring recruitment processes aligned with Graphcore’s culture & standards

Solution

  • Embedded recruitment team: Scede deployed a team of talent partners, including sourcing specialists, who worked directly within Graphcore
  • ATS & CRM implementation: Introduced a best-in-class ATS and CRM, with full training to streamline hiring processes
  • Tailored hiring process: Developed a scalable, efficient engineering hiring process that balanced quality with speed
  • Data-driven strategy: Created an executive dashboard to track key recruitment performance indicators and optimize the hiring process
  • Pipeline unblock: Addressed bottlenecks in critical hiring areas, including Software, and Customer Engineering