AI Hardware Diagnostics Lead for System Validation

Graphcore; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Flexible working

Job summary

Graphcore in Austin, Texas seeks a Technical Lead for System Tests & Diagnostics to drive silicon validation tooling for next‑gen AI SoCs. You will extend Arm-based diagnostics and build stress tools that reveal data integrity, performance, and reliability issues across CPUs, accelerators, memory, PCIe, firmware, and BMC.

The role requires collaborating with hardware, firmware, software, and validation teams to translate hardware capabilities into reusable software and expand platform

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience developing hardware diagnostics, system validation software, firmware validation tools, or low-level systems software.
• Strong software development skills in Python and C/C++.
• Strong understanding of modern server platform architecture and subsystem interactions.

Responsibilities

• Learn and extend Arm diagnostics tools to support Graphcore’s AI platform.
• Develop specialized diagnostics and stress-testing software for CPU, memory, interconnect, PCIe, and other system components.
• Build reusable validation utilities that integrate into the existing validation framework.
• Develop tools that expose intermittent hardware failures including silent data corruption and hardware instability.
• Design configurable diagnostic applications supporting multiple silicon revisions, platforms, and execution environments.

Skills

Python

C/C++

System validation

Diagnostics software

Debugging

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/CE/EE

Tools

Arm-based diagnostics

Job description

Graphcore in Austin, Texas seeks a Technical Lead for System Tests & Diagnostics to drive silicon validation tooling for next‑gen AI SoCs. You will extend Arm-based diagnostics and build stress tools that reveal data integrity, performance, and reliability issues across CPUs, accelerators, memory, PCIe, firmware, and BMC.

The role requires collaborating with hardware, firmware, software, and validation teams to translate hardware capabilities into reusable software and expand platform