Senior Linux Platform Release & Validation Engineer

Graphcore; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 74,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Generous leave

Phantom equity

On-site barista and free food

Private medical insurance

Dental cover

Job summary

Graphcore Bristol is seeking Senior and Staff level engineers to build the Linux distribution foundation powering Graphcore AI systems. You will help turn upstream software into trusted platform releases and production‑ready system images.

This hands‑on role focuses on building and improving automated pipelines, running Linux test suites, diagnosing issues across build and validation flows, and applying evidence‑led validation for controlled configuration changes.

Qualifications

• Strong practical experience in Linux environments.
• Experience building or maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash or similar scripting languages.
• Experience with Linux image creation, provisioning or system installation.
• Ability to diagnose failures in automated build or test environments.
• Confidence using established tools while improving engineering quality.

Responsibilities

• Build the Linux distribution foundation powering Graphcore platform releases.
• Create Linux distributions that produce production-ready system images from upstream distributions.
• Define how releases are built, validated and deployed.
• Build and improve automated pipelines and validate with test suites.
• Diagnose issues across build and validation flows.
• Introduce controlled configuration and tuning with evidence-led validation.
• Collaborate in a new small team and shape its culture.

Skills

Linux

CI/CD pipelines

Python

Bash scripting

Linux image creation

Troubleshooting

Job description

Graphcore Bristol is seeking Senior and Staff level engineers to build the Linux distribution foundation powering Graphcore AI systems. You will help turn upstream software into trusted platform releases and production‑ready system images.

This hands‑on role focuses on building and improving automated pipelines, running Linux test suites, diagnosing issues across build and validation flows, and applying evidence‑led validation for controlled configuration changes.