Director, System Software: Lead Hardware‑Software Excellence

Graphcore

West of England

On-site

GBP 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

11 days ago

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Flexible working
Generous leave
Pension matching
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Private medical insurance
Dental cover
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Job summary

Graphcore in the United Kingdom is seeking a Director of System Software to lead the system software organization, turning hardware platforms into reliable Graphcore systems.

You will report to the VP of Software, own execution across firmware, drivers, OpenBMC and QA, and build a high-performance engineering team with managers and technical leaders to deliver platform bring-up, production release, long-term support and cross-functional delivery across hardware, silicon, software and product

Qualifications

  • Leader of system software teams across hardware and software programs.
  • Experience managing managers or multiple technical teams with clear ownership.
  • Ability to develop engineering leaders through change and uncertainty.
  • Strong judgement in planning, resourcing, dependencies, risk and production release readiness.
  • Experience embedding validation, automated testing, hardware-in-the-loop testing and release criteria.
  • Broad technical breadth across firmware, drivers, OpenBMC, QA or related low-level software domains.

Responsibilities

  • Own execution, quality and cross-functional delivery across hardware, silicon, software and product teams.
  • Lead the team delivering firmware, drivers, OpenBMC and QA.
  • Shape platform bring-up, production release and long-term support across Graphcore systems.
  • Build a strong engineering organisation by developing managers and technical leaders.

Skills

System software leadership
Managing managers
Firmware & OpenBMC
Release readiness
Hardware-software co-design
Strategic planning

Job description

Graphcore in the United Kingdom is seeking a Director of System Software to lead the system software organization, turning hardware platforms into reliable Graphcore systems.

You will report to the VP of Software, own execution across firmware, drivers, OpenBMC and QA, and build a high-performance engineering team with managers and technical leaders to deliver platform bring-up, production release, long-term support and cross-functional delivery across hardware, silicon, software and product

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