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About the Role

The team is responsible for developing and applying system-level diagnostics and validation capabilities that ensure the quality and reliability of Graphcore’s AI computing platforms. The System Tests & Diagnostics Engineer will develop, extend, and integrate specialist silicon validation and diagnostic software for Graphcore’s AI computing systems, focusing on creating diagnostic and stress-testing capabilities that expose hardware failures, characterize system behavior, and improve platform observability.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and extend system-level diagnostic and stress-testing software for Graphcore AI computing platforms.
Develop diagnostic applications covering processors, memory, interconnects, PCIe, storage, networking, and other system components.
Build reusable validation utilities and libraries that integrate with Graphcore’s system validation infrastructure.
Develop tools to identify and characterize intermittent hardware failures, including data integrity issues, timing-related failures, and system instability.
Design configurable diagnostic applications capable of supporting multiple silicon revisions, platforms, and execution environments.
Develop automation for executing diagnostics across server and rack-scale validation environments.
Create configuration-driven diagnostic capabilities that enable scalable parameterization, workload variation, and repeatable testing.
Work with hardware architects and engineering teams to understand new hardware capabilities and identify opportunities for additional diagnostic coverage.
Collaborate with firmware and validation engineers to improve platform observability and fault isolation.
Debug complex interactions between hardware, firmware, operating systems, and device drivers.
Analyze diagnostic results, identify failure patterns, and develop improved methods for reproducing and isolating system-level issues.
Develop software and tooling that enables engineering teams to reproduce, investigate, and resolve difficult hardware failures efficiently.
Contribute reusable software components and engineering practices that improve productivity and diagnostic capability across validation teams.
Provide technical guidance and collaborate across engineering disciplines to solve complex system validation and diagnostic problems.
Extend existing diagnostics technologies to support new Graphcore hardware.
Develop new diagnostics tools for emerging hardware capabilities.
Build reusable software components that integrate seamlessly with the existing validation framework.
Improve hardware observability and root-cause isolation.
Detect and characterize intermittent hardware failures that traditional validation techniques cannot expose.
Deliver configurable diagnostics that scale across multiple platforms and silicon revisions.
Work effectively across hardware, firmware, validation, and diagnostics teams to continuously improve platform quality.

Requirements

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
12+ years of experience developing hardware diagnostics, system validation software, firmware validation tools, or low-level systems software.
Strong software development skills in Python and C/C++.
Strong Linux systems experience.
Strong understanding of modern server platform architecture, including how CPU, memory, PCIe, storage, networking, firmware, operating system, and device drivers interact within a complete system.
Experience debugging hardware/software interactions across multiple layers of the platform.
Experience developing diagnostics, stress testing, or hardware validation software.
Experience with server platforms, embedded systems, or SoC validation.
Strong analytical and debugging skills.
Experience collaborating across hardware, firmware, software, and validation teams.
Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
Experience with Arm-based server platforms.
Experience with AI accelerators or high-performance computing systems.
Experience with Silent Data Corruption (SDC) testing.
Experience with hardware stress testing.
Experience with power transient analysis.
Experience with hardware fault injection methodologies.
Experience with firmware validation.
Experience with silicon bring-up.
Experience with performance characterization.
Experience with hardware telemetry and observability.
Experience with BMC firmware or server management.
Experience with RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) technologies.
Experience validating across subsystems: CPU scaling and cache behavior, Memory (DDR/HBM) bandwidth, latency, and NUMA effects, Interconnect contention under multi-core load, PCIe/I-O throughput, latency, and multi-device scenarios, High-speed I/O validation.

Skills

Python
C/C++
Linux systems
Hardware diagnostics
System validation software
Firmware validation tools
Low-level systems software
Server platform architecture
Hardware/software interaction debugging
Diagnostics development
Stress testing
Hardware validation
Server platforms
Embedded systems
SoC validation
Analytical skills
Debugging skills
Collaboration
Communication skills
Problem-solving skills
Arm-based server platforms
AI accelerators
High-performance computing systems
Silent Data Corruption (SDC) testing
Hardware stress testing
Power transient analysis
Hardware fault injection methodologies
Firmware validation
Silicon bring-up
Performance characterization
Hardware telemetry
Observability
BMC firmware
Server management
RAS technologies
CPU scaling
Cache behavior
Memory (DDR/HBM) bandwidth
Memory latency
NUMA effects
Interconnect contention
PCIe/I-O throughput
PCIe/I-O latency
Multi-device scenarios
High-speed I/O validation

Experience Level

12+ years of experience

Education Level

Bachelor's degree
Master's degree

Benefits

Competitive salary
Flexible working
Medical coverage
Dental coverage
Vision coverage
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
Disability insurance
Life insurance
401(k) retirement plan
Commuter benefits
Wellness services
Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

About the Company

Graphcore is one of the world’s leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute.
It is developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure that will unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs and power the widespread adoption of AI solutions across every industry.
As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies.
Together, they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone.
Graphcore’s teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives.
A melting pot of AI research specialists, silicon designers, software engineers and systems architects, Graphcore enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation.

Equal Opportunity

We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we're committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone.
We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us.
We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments.