# Staff Engineer - Server Hardware Compute Blade and Rack Validation Lead

**Company**: Graphcore
**Location**: Austin, Texas
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Graphcore is seeking a senior validation lead engineer to lead at-scale rack validation efforts for next-generation AI hyperscale systems.

The role focuses on post-silicon system validation across the full lifecycle, ensuring functional, electrical, and thermal performance meets product objectives. You will own end-to-end blade and rack validation including planning, development, execution, and debug while collaborating across firmware, systems, and hardware teams.

## Responsibilities and Duties

- Lead post-silicon validation of AI compute blades and racks including test planning, development, and automation.

- Drive provisioning and integration of system components (SoC FW, BMC, RMC, OS) for rack-level readiness.

- Own execution against program achievements and report validation progress and risks.

- Triage test failures, collect debug data, and collaborate on root cause analysis.

- Track validation coverage and continuously improve test processes and infrastructure.

- Collaborate with ODM/JDM partners on validation and quality.

- Mentor engineers and drive engineering excellence.

## Candidate Profile

### Essential:

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.

- Proven track record in system, rack, or embedded validation with leadership experience.

- Strong experience in large-scale hardware validation environments.

- Expertise in CPU/GPU, memory, IO, and firmware validation.

- Experience with Linux/server OS and automation using Python/Bash.

- Knowledge of IPMI, Redfish, PLDM.

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and hardware interfaces.

### Desirable:

- Experience in hyperscale environments.

- Familiarity with OpenBMC and processes for verifying firmware functionality.

- Knowledge of firmware security and HIL testing.

- Experience with test management tools.

## Skills

### Required
- Computer Engineering
- Electrical Engineering
- Computer Science
- system validation
- rack validation
- embedded validation
- leadership
- large-scale hardware validation
- CPU/GPU
- memory
- IO
- firmware validation
- Linux
- Python
- Bash
- IPMI
- Redfish
- PLDM
- CI/CD pipelines

### Nice to have
- hyperscale environments
- OpenBMC
- firmware security
- HIL testing
- test management tools

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