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.