Senior Staff Engineer - Platform QA @ Graphcore

Graphcore; Województwo pomorskie; On-site; PLN 320,000 - 375,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI technology company is seeking an engineer to join its Platform Quality Assurance group. The role involves creating and executing tests, collaborating with development teams, and providing feedback to improve product quality. Candidates should have strong programming skills in Python, Go, or C++, with experience in Linux environments and continuous integration systems. Flexible working conditions and a range of benefits are offered.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working and annual leave policy

Medical and dental health plans

Gym card and employee pension (matched up to 4%)

Employee assistance programme

Training budget

Team events

Qualifications

• Strong relevant programming experience in Python, Go, C++ or infrastructure-as-code scripting.
• Experience working in Linux environments.
• Automation of building/testing with continuous integration systems.
• Strong impartial report writing, optimized for the reader.
• English – C1 level.

Responsibilities

• Create and execute tests and reports optimized for delivery engineering and product management teams.
• Organize and maintain a repository of results and collaborate with the QA team.
• Develop or refine expertise in the domain area of the product component or system at scale.
• Focus on specific domains such as Workload Management (Kubernetes, Ray), Cloud Development, and Management & Observability.

Skills

Python

Go

C++

Infrastructure-as-code scripting

Report writing

English (C1 level)

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitHub

GitLab

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

DataDog

Splunk

Job description

About us

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. Our teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives.

Job Summary

We need an engineer to join our Platform Quality Assurance group. You will creatively exercise our product to provide feedback to the engineering delivery and product management teams, helping them make decisions about engineering effort and the trajectory of the product. In the component QA team you will work closely with development teams; in the integration QA team you will exercise aggregated systems at a larger scale with a bias towards informing product management. You will provide observations and measurements of the product, painting a comprehensive behavioural picture of typical and atypical scenarios. You will design and build novel tests and measurements, deciding when to adopt established methods and when to create bespoke solutions.

Responsibilities

• Create and execute tests and reports optimized for delivery engineering and product management teams.
• Organize and maintain a repository of results and collaborate with the QA team.
• Develop or refine expertise in the domain area of the product component or system at scale.
• Focus on specific domains such as Workload Management (Kubernetes, Ray), Cloud Development, and Management & Observability.

Essential / Qualifications

• Strong relevant programming experience in Python, Go, C++ or infrastructure‑as‑code scripting.
• Experience working in Linux environments.
• Automation of building/testing with continuous integration systems.
• Strong impartial report writing, optimized for the reader.
• English – C1 level.

Desirable

• Domain experience with containerisation (Docker), virtualisation and provisioning, workload and job scheduling (Kubernetes, Ray) on high‑core‑count machines and rack‑scale installations, and management & observability tools (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, DataDog, Splunk, etc.).
• 10+ years of relevant experience in quality assurance/testing teams.
• Experience with the Atlassian suite and CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins, GitHub or GitLab actions.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Flexible working and annual leave policy.
• Medical and dental health plans.
• Gym card and employee pension (matched up to 4%).
• Employee assistance programme (health, mental wellbeing, bereavement support).
• Training budget, team events, modern office, free coffee and snacks, bike parking, and more.

Location

Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Polska