Infrastructure and MLOps Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Private medical insurance

Dental plan

Pension (matched 5%)

Life assurance

Income protection

Parental leave

Employee assistance programme

Barista bar

Job summary

Graphcore in Cambridge is seeking a Software Infrastructure Engineer to scale and manage our infrastructure. You will build essential tools and services that empower our ML software teams, improving build, test, deployment, and productisation processes for our ML software components.

You will work with HPC AI platforms and gain experience in distributed systems, CI/CD, and cloud orchestration, contributing to robust, scalable infrastructure that supports rapid AI innovation across the company.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Python.
• Familiarity with cloud services (e.g., AWS).
• Experience managing or developing in Linux environments.
• Understanding of CI/CD principles.
• Experience using Kubernetes (k8s).
• Experience with ML orchestration tools or ML accelerator hardware.

Responsibilities

• Develop, own, and maintain tools and services to support AI research and engineering teams.
• Deploy and maintain services with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Manage our Cloud Infrastructure using tools such as Terraform.

Skills

Python

AWS

Linux

CI/CD

Kubernetes

ML orchestration tools

ML accelerator hardware

Go/Java/C++

Tools

Docker

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

About Graphcore

At Graphcore, we’re building the future of AI compute. We’re a team of semiconductor, software and AI experts, with deep experience in creating the complete AI compute stack – from silicon and software to infrastructure at datacenter scale. As part of the SoftBank Group, backed by significant long‑term investment, we are delivering key technology into the fast‑growing SoftBank AI ecosystem. To meet the vast and exciting AI opportunity, Graphcore is expanding its teams around the world. We are bringing together the brightest minds to solve the toughest problems, in a place where everyone has the opportunity to make an impact on the company, our products, and the future of artificial intelligence.

Job Summary

Join our dynamic Software Infrastructure team and take a pivotal role in scaling and managing our infrastructure. You will develop essential tools and services that empower our broader software team, enhancing the build, test, deployment, and productisation processes for our Machine Learning Software components. Work with our High‑Performance Computing (HPC) AI platforms and gain invaluable experience in distributed systems.

The Team

The Software Infrastructure team provides critical platforms and services for software development teams across the business. Our responsibilities include managing the CI platform and services, build engineering, component integration, and packaging and release systems. We operate in squads, fostering a culture of service ownership and empowerment for our engineers. We focus on long‑term engineering solutions and strive to eliminate toil wherever possible.

Responsibilities And Duties

• Develop, own, and maintain tools and services to support AI research and engineering teams
• Deploy and maintain services with Kubernetes and Docker
• Manage our Cloud Infrastructure using tools such as Terraform

Candidate Profile

Essential

• Knowledge of Python
• Familiarity with cloud services (e.g., AWS)
• Experience managing or developing in Linux environments
• Understanding of CI/CD principles
• Experience using Kubernetes (k8s)
• Experience with one of the following: maintaining machine learning applications, deploying ML orchestration tools (e.g., NV Ray, KFP, SkyPilot), or managing ML accelerator hardware (e.g., DCGM)

Desirable

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform/OpenTofu)
• Experience with GitHub Actions
• Experience with modern observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus)
• Experience with Grafana
• Knowledge of Go/Java/C++ (or similar language)

Benefits

In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working, a generous annual leave policy, private medical insurance and a health cash plan, a dental plan, pension (matched up to 5%), life assurance and income protection. We have a generous parental leave policy and an employee assistance programme (including health, mental well‑being and bereavement support). We offer a range of healthy food and snacks at our central Bristol office and have our own barista bar. We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we’re committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal‑opportunity process and encourage reasonable adjustments when required.