AI Hardware Manufacturing Test Architect

Graphcore; Saffron Walden; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited annual leave

Up to 5% matched pension

Phantom equity

True flexibility in where you work

Office spaces designed for collab

Job summary

Graphcore is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Test Architect to lead the technical direction of test solutions for Host Processor Modules, server blades, and multi-node rack systems. You will own the architecture of the test executive software and drive end-to-end test content for large-scale hardware validation in production.

You will collaborate with hardware, firmware, and software teams, use Linux and OpenBMC, and apply data-driven techniques to improve KPIs like yield and test time.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience developing and deploying manufacturing test solutions for high-performance servers, accelerators (GPU-class), or comparable large-scale compute hardware.
• Proven technical leadership as an individual contributor, owning architecture and driving alignment across multiple teams without direct line management responsibility.
• Deep technical understanding across silicon, board, and system design sufficient to define effective manufacturing test coverage and lead complex debug/root-cause analysis.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with experience driving requirements and delivery with internal software/firmware/platform teams to enable testability and diagnosability, Hands-on experience using Linux, OpenBMC, and vendor-specific test tools, diagnostics, and system-level utilities to test hardware in lab and manufacturing environments.
• Strong software engineering skills with scripting and automation (e.g., Python, Bash, or similar), including building reliable test infrastructure and integrating heterogeneous test content.
• Desirable Familiarity with rack-scale/multi-node systems, high-speed interconnects, and production qualification of complex assemblies.
• Experience improving manufacturing KPIs (yield, test time, false fail reduction) through data-driven test optimisation and robust statistical/diagnostic approaches.
• Knowledge of open-source tools commonly used for manufacturing test, system bring-up, and hardware diagnostics.
• Experience designing testability/diagnosability features into products (telemetry, self-test hooks, debug interfaces) in partnership with design teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture of the test executive software and develop manufacturing test content that validates complex hardware at scale.
• Own the technical direction of manufacturing test solutions for Host Processor Modules, Server Blades, and multi-node rack systems.
• Collaborate across hardware, firmware, and software teams to enable reliable, efficient testing throughout production.

Skills

Manufacturing test leadership

Linux

OpenBMC

Python/Bash scripting

Test infrastructure

Data-driven optimisation

Diagnostics

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Vendor test tools

Job description

Graphcore is seeking a Senior Manufacturing Test Architect to lead the technical direction of test solutions for Host Processor Modules, server blades, and multi-node rack systems. You will own the architecture of the test executive software and drive end-to-end test content for large-scale hardware validation in production.

You will collaborate with hardware, firmware, and software teams, use Linux and OpenBMC, and apply data-driven techniques to improve KPIs like yield and test time.