Senior Systems Engineer: AI Compute & Benchmarking

Graphcore; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Generous leave

Retirement planning support

Phantom equity

On-site barista and free food

Income protection and life assurance

Private medical insurance

Dental cover

Cycle to work scheme

Give as you earn

Job summary

Graphcore is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to explore a next‑gen AI architecture from rack scale to data center scale. You will design experiments, benchmark AI workloads, and study how hardware and software interact at scale, turning observations into actionable measurements.

You will help infrastructure engineers, architects and application specialists understand system behavior, performance, and reliability, and you will develop tooling to collect, analyse and visualise metrics.

Qualifications

• Strong Python skills for tests, automation and tooling.
• Excellent data analysis and problem-solving abilities.
• Curiosity-driven approach to investigating complex systems.
• Ability to explain technical findings with reproducible evidence.

Skills

Python scripting

Data analysis

Experiment design

Curiosity-driven

Communication

Independent work

Cross-team collaboration

AI workloads benchmarking

Parallel and distributed computing

Automation and orchestration

Job description

Graphcore is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to explore a next‑gen AI architecture from rack scale to data center scale. You will design experiments, benchmark AI workloads, and study how hardware and software interact at scale, turning observations into actionable measurements.

You will help infrastructure engineers, architects and application specialists understand system behavior, performance, and reliability, and you will develop tooling to collect, analyse and visualise metrics.