Software QA

Cerebras; Bristol; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI compute company seeks a Software Engineer in Test to ensure the correctness and performance of numerical libraries. Candidates should have strong C++ and Python skills, experience with performance-sensitive code, and excellent communication abilities. The role offers benefits like flexible working, private medical insurance, and a commitment to inclusivity.

Benefits

Flexible working

Generous annual leave policy

Private medical insurance

Health cash plan

Pension (matched up to 5%)

Life assurance and income protection

Employee assistance programme

Healthy food and snacks

Qualifications

• Strong C++ and Python coding skills required.
• Experience testing numerical/performance-sensitive code is essential.
• Understanding of processor architectures and Linux profiling needed.

Responsibilities

• Own existing tests coverage and contribute towards improving it.
• Debug issues and improve product quality.
• Mentor colleagues and share knowledge.

Skills

C++ coding skills

Python coding skills

Linux fundamentals

Numerical/performance-sensitive code testing

Excellent written and oral communication skills

Job description

About Graphcore

Graphcore is one of the world’s leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute.

It is developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure that will unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs and power the widespread adoption of AI solutions across every industry.

As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. Together, they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone.

Graphcore’s teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives. A melting pot of AI research specialists, silicon designers, software engineers and systems architects, Graphcore enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation.

Job Summary

As a Software Engineer in Test you will be responsible to safeguard the correctness, reliability, and performance of numerical libraries. You’ll design and own end-to-end test strategies across native C++ components and validating low-level kernels.

The Team

This is an exciting opportunity to join an expanding team at Graphcore. Kernel Engineering team is responsible for delivering high performance compute library to help customers gain the maximum performance from AI hardware.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Own existing tests coverage and contribute towards improving it
• Improve correctness of existent microbenchmarks, regression tests, validation techniques
• Mentor colleagues within the team, sharing knowledge and providing guidance where appropriate
• Actively engage in and support Agile ways of working within the team
• Debug issues, resolve bugs and generally improve the quality and functionality of the product

Candidate Profile

Essential:

• Strong C++ and Python coding skills and solid Linux fundamentals
• Experience testing numerical/performance-sensitive code
• Understanding of processor architectures and profiling on Linux
• Hands-on with reproducibility/determinism, tolerance design, and benchmarking
• Possess excellent written and oral communication skills, good work ethics, high sense of team-work

Desirable:

• Experience benchmarking and optimising algorithmic performance, with deep understanding of memory hierarchy (cache/NUMA), multithreading (synchronisation, work partitioning)
• Experience of testing mixed-precision policies (FP32/BF16/FP16/FP8) and stochastic rounding
• Property-based testing with tensor‑shape/dtype/layout generators
• Experience testing HPC kernels, ML runtimes/kernels, or similar
• ABI/API stability and packaging for Linux distros, manylinux, wheels
• Hands‑on testing for ML frameworks - custom operators/extensions, seeds/determinism, and debugging dispatcher issues.

Benefits

In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working, a generous annual leave policy, private medical insurance and 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 (which includes health, mental wellbeing, 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 understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments.

Applicants for this position must hold the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately at this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or support for visa applications