Post-Silicon Debug & Validation Engineer

Graphcore; West of England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Generous annual leave

Private medical insurance

Dental plan

Pension (matched up to 5%)

Life assurance

Income protection

Parental leave

Employee assistance programme

On-site snacks & barista

Job summary

Graphcore Bristol is seeking a Senior 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, characterization, and product readiness.

You will work across architecture, RTL, firmware, software, and systems groups to define validation metrics, develop debug methodologies, and enhance infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with post-silicon validation and debug in digital ASIC environments.
• Deep understanding of SoC and platform architectures and debug methodologies.
• Proficiency in Python and C, with scripting for debugging tasks.
• Experience with Linux and trace/log analysis tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead post-silicon debugging and validation efforts for AI compute silicon and platform technologies.
• Collaborate with architecture, RTL, firmware, software, and systems teams to identify root causes.
• Develop structured debug workflows and metrics for repeatable analysis.
• Develop and maintain automated debug, regression, and validation tooling.

Skills

Bare metal

SoC architecture

Post-silicon debug

Python

C

Linux

Debug tooling

Team collaboration

Tools

CoreSight

JTAG

Scan data parsing

Debug infrastructure

Job description

Graphcore Bristol is seeking a Senior 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, characterization, and product readiness.

You will work across architecture, RTL, firmware, software, and systems groups to define validation metrics, develop debug methodologies, and enhance infrastructure.