# Staff Engineering Program Support **Company**: Graphcore **Location**: Milpitas, California **Experience**: staff **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Engineering **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/graphcore/jobs/8784017002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_1eea84c9-ec2 ## Description ## Job Summary Reporting to an Engineering leader, the Staff Engineering Coordination Support role is responsible for coordinating engineering activities across multiple teams, ensuring effective planning, execution tracking, communication, and operational alignment. The role acts as a central point of coordination for engineering programmes and initiatives, helping teams manage priorities, dependencies, risks, and delivery commitments while supporting efficient collaboration across the organisation. ## The Team The Engineering Coordination team supports the effective operation of engineering functions across Graphcore. The team works closely with engineering leaders, technical specialists, project stakeholders, and business partners to improve visibility, facilitate communication, coordinate planning activities, and enable successful delivery of engineering objectives. ## Responsibilities and Duties - Coordinate engineering planning activities, schedules, milestones, and deliverables across multiple teams. - Track progress against agreed plans and provide regular status updates to stakeholders. - Identify, monitor, and help manage project dependencies, risks, issues, and actions. - Facilitate engineering meetings, reviews, planning sessions, and cross-functional coordination activities. - Maintain project documentation, reporting dashboards, action logs, and operational records. - Support engineering leaders with resource planning, prioritization activities, and workload visibility. - Drive follow-up actions to ensure commitments are completed and blockers are escalated appropriately. - Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to improve communication and information flow. - Assist in the implementation and continuous improvement of engineering processes, tools, and ways of working. - Produce clear and concise reports, presentations, and communications for engineering and business audiences. - Coordinate activities across geographically distributed teams to support efficient execution. - Contribute to operational excellence initiatives that improve predictability, efficiency, and delivery outcomes. ## Candidate Profile ### Essential - Experience coordinating complex technical, engineering, programme, or operational activities. - Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously. - Experience tracking actions, risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery milestones. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders. - Ability to influence outcomes and drive progress without direct authority. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail. - Experience using project management, planning, reporting, or collaboration tools. - Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment. - Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to build effective working relationships. - Proactive approach to identifying improvements and resolving coordination challenges. ### Desirable - Experience supporting engineering, software, hardware, semiconductor, or technology-focused organisations. - Knowledge of project, programme, or portfolio management methodologies. - Experience creating executive-level reporting and operational dashboards. - Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or similar delivery frameworks. - Experience coordinating activities across international or distributed teams. - Understanding of engineering product development lifecycles. ## Benefits In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working and a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, wellbeing, and financial future. Our benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), disability and life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, commuter benefits, wellness services, and an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP). ## Skills ### Required - project management - planning - reporting - collaboration tools - analytical and problem-solving skills - communication skills - organisational skills - stakeholder management ### Nice to have - Agile - Scrum - Kanban - engineering product development lifecycles - portfolio management methodologies - executive-level reporting - operational dashboards --- Source: [Apply at job-boards.greenhouse.io](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/graphcore/jobs/8784017002?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)