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About the Role

The Validation Chief of Staff will support strategic execution, operational coordination, and cross-functional alignment across the validation organization. This role drives organizational effectiveness, helps coordinate priorities, improves execution visibility, and supports the delivery of key engineering milestones. It requires a strong technical understanding of silicon validation and bring-up environments combined with exceptional organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

Partner with validation leadership to coordinate execution across multiple validation and bring-up initiatives.
Drive organizational planning, prioritisation, and operational tracking across validation programs and milestones.
Improve visibility of project status, technical risks, dependencies, and execution readiness across teams.
Coordinate cross-functional activities between validation, architecture, silicon, firmware, software, and systems engineering teams.
Support leadership reviews, engineering readiness assessments, and validation status reporting.
Help define and improve operational processes, engineering workflows, and communication structures across the validation organization.
Track key validation metrics, milestones, and deliverables to support organizational execution and decision-making.
Support escalation management and coordination of complex technical issues across teams.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives related to validation infrastructure, engineering processes, and operational efficiency.
Organise and coordinate technical reviews, planning discussions, and cross-site engineering meetings.
Contribute to the development of scalable documentation, reporting frameworks, and operational tooling.
Work with engineering leadership to identify resource constraints, prioritisation conflicts, and execution risks.
Facilitate collaboration across geographically distributed engineering teams and stakeholders.
Support onboarding and organizational scaling activities across the validation organization.
Provide structured analysis and recommendations to leadership to support strategic and operational decision-making.

Requirements

Strong experience working within silicon validation, post-silicon bring-up, system validation, or related engineering environments.
Strong understanding of hardware and software development lifecycles for complex SoC or platform products.
Experience coordinating cross-functional engineering activities across multiple technical disciplines.
Excellent organizational, planning, and operational coordination skills.
Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with the ability to manage complex technical and organizational dependencies.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across multidisciplinary engineering organizations.
Experience creating structured reporting, tracking, and operational review mechanisms.
Ability to work effectively across geographically distributed teams and stakeholders.
Strong attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
Experience using collaboration, reporting, and project tracking tools within engineering environments.
Ability to operate independently in fast-moving and technically complex environments.
Strong Linux and Python familiarity within engineering workflows and validation environments.
Experience within post-silicon validation, debug, or characterization organizations.
Understanding of SoC architectures, high-speed interfaces, memory systems, and system integration challenges.
Experience supporting engineering leadership or operational execution within technical organizations.
Familiarity with validation infrastructure, regression systems, and engineering workflows.
Experience with silicon bring-up and product readiness processes.
Knowledge of AI accelerator, GPU, or high-performance compute systems.
Experience analyzing engineering execution metrics and operational data.
Familiarity with agile planning, milestone tracking, and engineering program coordination.
Experience working across globally distributed engineering organizations.

Skills

Silicon validation
Post-silicon bring-up
System validation
Hardware development lifecycles
Software development lifecycles
SoC development
Platform development
Cross-functional coordination
Organizational skills
Planning skills
Operational coordination
Analytical skills
Problem-solving
Stakeholder management
Structured reporting
Project tracking
Collaboration tools
Reporting tools
Project tracking tools
Linux
Python
Post-silicon debug
Post-silicon characterization
SoC architectures
High-speed interfaces
Memory systems
System integration
Validation infrastructure
Regression systems
Engineering workflows
Silicon bring-up
Product readiness
AI accelerators
GPUs
High-performance compute systems
Engineering execution metrics analysis
Operational data analysis
Agile planning
Milestone tracking
Engineering program coordination

Location

Work Type

Flexible working

Salary/Compensations

Competitive salary

Benefits

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 a leading innovator in Artificial Intelligence compute, developing hardware, software, and systems infrastructure to unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs.
As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for transformative technologies.
Graphcore's teams are diverse, bringing a broad range of skills and perspectives, fostering 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.