Post-Silicon Debug Lead for AI Compute

Graphcore; West of England; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Private medical insurance

Health cash plan

Dental plan

Pension match

Life assurance

Income protection

Parental leave

Employee assistance program

Office snacks

Barista bar

Job summary

Graphcore in Bristol is seeking a Debug Validation Engineer to drive post-silicon debug and validation for next-generation AI compute silicon and systems. You will lead teams to identify, reproduce, analyze, and resolve complex silicon, firmware, and system-level issues during bring-up and product readiness.

Work with architecture, RTL, firmware, software, and systems groups to develop structured debug methodologies, automate validation, and improve diagnostics.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in bare metal environments.
• Deep understanding of SoC and platform architectures.
• Expertise in debug infrastructure and post-silicon debug methodologies.
• Strong Linux and Python experience.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Experience with post-silicon validation in digital ASIC environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead post-silicon debugging and validation efforts for AI compute silicon and platform technologies.
• Contribute to debug and validation activities across multiple projects and achievements.
• Analyze and address intricate silicon, firmware, software, and system-level problems during bring-up and validation.
• Develop structured debug methodologies and failure analysis processes to improve issue resolution efficiency.
• Work in close partnership with architecture, RTL, firmware, software, and systems engineering groups to determine root causes and carry out corrective measures.
• Drive debug of CPU, memory, interconnect, and high-speed I/O subsystems under functional, stress, and workload conditions.
• Develop and improve automated debug, regression, and validation infrastructure using Python and related technologies.
• Analyze logs, traces, telemetry, and hardware data to isolate and characterize system failures and performance issues.
• Support development of validation tests, debug tooling, and custom diagnostics to improve coverage and observability.
• Define validation metrics, debug workflows, and reporting standards to ensure consistent and repeatable analysis.
• Communicate technical risks, status, and recommendations clearly to engineering leadership and cross-functional collaborators.
• Support silicon readiness reviews and contribute to product quality and release decisions.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of debug methodologies, validation infrastructure, and engineering workflows.

Skills

Bare metal environments

SoC architectures

Post-silicon debug

Python programming

Linux experience

Debug scripting

Communication skills

Problem solving

Scan/DFT/JTAG

Root-cause analysis

Tools

CoreSight

J-Link

Lauterbach

CTI/ETx

DStream

Job description

Graphcore in Bristol is seeking a Debug Validation Engineer to drive post-silicon debug and validation for next-generation AI compute silicon and systems. You will lead teams to identify, reproduce, analyze, and resolve complex silicon, firmware, and system-level issues during bring-up and product readiness.

Work with architecture, RTL, firmware, software, and systems groups to develop structured debug methodologies, automate validation, and improve diagnostics.