Vice President, Silicon Engineering

Jonathan Ferguson is a silicon engineering leader with 25 years of experience across the entire silicon design process, specializing in Logical Design and Design-for-Test (DFT). As VP of Silicon Engineering at Axelera AI since October 2022, he oversees the company’s silicon development efforts. 

Prior to Axelera AI, Jonathan spent over six years at Graphcore in leadership roles, including Silicon Engineering Director (Logical) and Front-End Design Manager. Before that, he held key positions at XMOS for nearly nine years, where he drove chip microarchitecture, silicon technology advancements, and high-speed logic design. Earlier in his career, he contributed to DSP and processor IP design at Broadcom and ARC International.

Jonathan holds a BEng First Class from Lancaster University. His career spans numerous successful tapeouts on CMOS technologies from 0.35um to 5nm, and his work has resulted in multiple patents in parallel arithmetic operations, processor decode operations, and configurable instruction set architectures.