Graphcore

Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Large Systems)

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2 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior
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Responsibilities

  • Implement the latest machine learning models and optimise their performance and accuracy across thousands of accelerators.
  • Test and evaluate internal software releases, provide feedback to software engineering teams, fix code, and conduct code reviews.
  • Benchmark models and ML techniques to identify performance bottlenecks and improve model efficiency.
  • Design, implement, and evaluate experiments involving novel AI methods.
  • Collaborate with Research, Software, and Product teams to define, build, and test next-generation AI hardware.
  • Monitor developments in the AI community and keep current with emerging technologies.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD, or equivalent experience in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Maths, Data Science, or a related field.
  • Proficiency with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX.
  • Strong Python or C++ software development skills.
  • Expertise in deep learning across model training, optimisation, and evaluation.
  • Experience with distributed training or inference of ML models across 64 or more accelerators.
  • Ability to design, execute, and report on ML experiments.
  • Deep understanding of performance bottlenecks and how to overcome them.
  • Desirable experience with MLOps for Kubernetes-based clusters, production systems using large language models, or efficient computing with low-precision arithmetic.
  • Desirable experience writing C++, Triton, or CUDA kernels for ML model performance optimisation.
  • Familiarity with HPC systems and networking technologies including Infiniband, NVLink, or RoCE.
  • Open-source contributions or relevant research publications are desirable.
  • Knowledge of cloud computing platforms and interest in presenting, publishing, or delivering talks in the AI community are desirable.
  • Strong collaboration, communication, and ability to work in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

  • Flexible working and generous annual leave policy.
  • Private medical insurance, health cash plan, dental plan, pension matched up to 5%, life assurance, and income protection.
  • Generous parental leave and employee assistance programme.
  • Healthy food, snacks, and an on-site barista bar at the central Bristol office.
  • Flexible interview arrangements and reasonable adjustments are available.
  • Applicants must have the right to work in the UK; visa sponsorship is not available.
Graphcore

About Graphcore

501-1,000 employees

At Graphcore, we’re building the future of AI compute. We’re a team of semiconductor, software and AI experts, with deep experience in creating the complete AI compute stack - from silicon and software to infrastructure at datacenter scale. As part of the SoftBank Group, backed by significant long-term investment, we are delivering key technology into the fast-growing SoftBank AI ecosystem. To meet the vast and exciting AI opportunity, Graphcore is expanding its teams around the world. We are bringing together the brightest minds to solve the toughest problems, in a place where everyone has the opportunity to make an impact on the company, our products and the future of artificial intelligence.