# Technical Lead - System Tests & Diagnostics Engineer

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

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## Description

## Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled System Tests & Diagnostics Engineer to develop, extend, and integrate specialized silicon validation and diagnostics tools for next-generation AI SoCs.

## Responsibilities and Duties

You will work closely with Arm engineers to understand and extend existing diagnostics technologies while developing Graphcore-specific capabilities for future AI hardware.

Responsibilities:

- Learn and extend existing Arm diagnostics tools to support Graphcore’s AI platform.

- Develop specialized diagnostics and stress-testing software for CPU, memory, interconnect, PCIe, and other system components.

- Build reusable validation utilities that integrate into the existing validation framework.

- Develop tools that expose intermittent hardware failures including silent data corruption, timing-related issues, and hardware instability.

- Design configurable diagnostic applications supporting multiple silicon revisions, platforms, and execution environments.

- Develop automation for executing diagnostics across server and rack-scale validation environments.

- Design configuration-driven diagnostics supporting scalable parameterization and workload variation.

- Collaborate with hardware architects to understand new hardware capabilities and identify missing diagnostics.

- Work closely with firmware and validation teams to improve hardware observability.

- Debug low-level hardware, firmware, operating system, and driver interactions.

- Analyze diagnostic output and improve fault isolation methodologies.

- Develop software that enables engineers to reproduce and investigate difficult hardware failures.

- Contribute reusable libraries and utilities that improve engineering productivity across multiple validation teams.

## Candidate Profile

Essential:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.

- 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.

## Desirable:

- Arm-based server platforms

- AI accelerators or 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 and observability

- BMC firmware or server management

- RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) technologies

## What Success Looks Like

Successful candidates will:

- 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.

## Why Join Graphcore?

This role provides a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of hardware architecture, diagnostics, and software engineering while helping define how next-generation AI systems are validated.

USA 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- C/C++
- Linux
- server platform architecture
- hardware diagnostics
- system validation software
- firmware validation tools
- low-level systems software
- debugging
- analytical and problem-solving skills

### Nice to have
- 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 and observability
- BMC firmware or server management
- RAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) technologies

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