Staff ML QA Engineer - Build scalable tests & CI/CD

Academic Key; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Generous leave

Retirement planning support

Phantom equity

Workplace experience

Peace of mind protection

Electric Vehicle Scheme

Flexible benefits

Optional benefits

Job summary

Graphcore, a leader in AI compute, seeks a Staff Software Engineer (ML QA) in London to design and maintain production-quality test infrastructure for the ML stack. You’ll build scalable test frameworks and CI/CD pipelines spanning simulators, emulators and hardware, shaping software architecture and developer experience.

Mentoring junior engineers and driving quality across teams are key aspects. You’ll work with industry-standard frameworks, analyze ML workloads and translate results into

Qualifications

• Proven ability to design and maintain production-quality test software.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines for ML stacks in Linux environments.
• Familiarity with reading and reasoning about low-level C/C++ code.
• Ability to mentor junior engineers and influence engineering practices.
• Self-directed problem solving and gap identification in complex systems.
• Value diverse experiences and returnship candidates are welcome.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable test infrastructure for Graphcore’s ML stack.
• Build CI/CD pipelines that run across simulators, emulators and hardware.
• Create representative ML workloads and analyze their execution to drive improvements.
• Collaborate with software teams to raise quality, security and maintainability.

Skills

Python

CI/CD

Linux

C/C++

Mentoring

Software architecture

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Testing frameworks

Job description

Graphcore, a leader in AI compute, seeks a Staff Software Engineer (ML QA) in London to design and maintain production-quality test infrastructure for the ML stack. You’ll build scalable test frameworks and CI/CD pipelines spanning simulators, emulators and hardware, shaping software architecture and developer experience.

Mentoring junior engineers and driving quality across teams are key aspects. You’ll work with industry-standard frameworks, analyze ML workloads and translate results into