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Responsibilities
- Extend Arm diagnostics tools to support Graphcore's next-generation AI platforms.
- Develop system-level diagnostics and stress-testing software for CPUs, memory, interconnects, PCIe, and other system components.
- Build reusable validation libraries and utilities that integrate with the existing validation framework.
- Develop configurable, parameterized diagnostics supporting multiple silicon revisions, platforms, and execution environments.
- Automate diagnostic execution across server and rack-scale validation environments.
- Expose intermittent failures such as silent data corruption, timing issues, and hardware instability.
- Collaborate with hardware architects, firmware engineers, validation engineers, and diagnostics teams.
- Debug low-level hardware, firmware, operating system, and driver interactions.
- Analyze diagnostic output and improve fault isolation, observability, and failure reproduction.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 10+ years of experience developing hardware diagnostics, system validation software, firmware validation tools, or low-level systems software.
- Strong Python and C/C++ software development skills.
- Strong Linux systems experience.
- Strong understanding of server platform architecture, including CPU, memory, PCIe, storage, networking, firmware, operating systems, and device drivers.
- Experience debugging hardware/software interactions across multiple platform layers.
- Experience developing diagnostics, stress-testing, or hardware validation software.
- Experience with server platforms, embedded systems, or SoC validation.
- Strong analytical, debugging, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Preferred qualifications include Arm-based server platforms, AI accelerators, high-performance computing, silent data corruption testing, power transient analysis, fault injection, firmware validation, silicon bring-up, performance characterization, hardware telemetry, BMC firmware, and RAS technologies.
- Preferred subsystem validation experience includes CPU scaling and cache behavior, DDR/HBM bandwidth and latency, NUMA effects, interconnect contention, PCIe/I-O performance, and high-speed I/O.
Benefits
- Flexible working arrangements.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts.
- Disability and life insurance.
- 401(k) retirement plan.
- Commuter benefits, wellness services, and an Employee Assistance Programme.
- Inclusive equal-opportunity workplace with reasonable interview adjustments available.
About Graphcore
Graphcore designs and sells Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs), systems, and a full software stack for training and inference of AI models in data centers and research labs. Revenue comes from hardware systems and associated software tools and services, used for workloads across NLP, computer vision, and graph neural networks. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Bristol, the company is part of SoftBank Group and focuses on on‑prem and cloud deployments.