7 hours ago
Gdańsk, PolandStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end performance analysis across Graphcore’s AI hardware and software stack.
- Build benchmarks and profile large-scale machine learning workloads.
- Identify bottlenecks, explain regressions, and analyze low-level system behavior.
- Translate performance data into clear engineering recommendations.
- Collaborate with framework, compiler, runtime, infrastructure, and product teams to validate improvements.
- Publish reports and follow performance issues across component boundaries until impact is demonstrated.
Requirements
- Strong Python, C, or C++ skills in performance-sensitive software.
- Deep understanding of computer architecture, profiling, and low-level system behavior.
- Experience benchmarking and analyzing complex distributed systems.
- Ability to translate performance data into actionable engineering recommendations.
- Working knowledge of Linux development environments and tooling.
- Familiarity with machine learning frameworks, hardware acceleration, or collective communication.
- Transferable skills and diverse professional experiences are welcomed, including return-to-work experience.
Benefits
- Flexible working arrangements.
- Comprehensive healthcare and dental insurance, with optional family coverage.
- Phantom equity.
- Fully funded Medicover gym card and wellbeing support.
- Death and disability insurance.
- Retirement savings with a 4% employer contribution.
- Employee Assistance Programme for personal, financial, and wellbeing support.
- The role is based in Poland and requires the legal right to work there; returnship routes are available for engineers returning after a career break.
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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.