Director, Post-Silicon Validation — AI SoC Lead

Graphcore; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 210,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision coverage

FSAs

HSAs

Disability and life insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Graphcore is opening a new AI Engineering Campus in Austin, Texas, hiring a Director-level post-silicon validation leader to validate high‑performance AI chips and platforms. You will guide a cross-functional team through post-silicon bring-up, validate full SoC functionality, and ensure a fully characterized product with strong collaboration across hardware, firmware, and software engineering teams.

You will lead validation efforts, report progress to management, mentor engineers, and drive

Qualifications

• Understanding of ML applications and their workloads.
• A self-starter who can apply independent judgement.
• A team player able to lead and support colleagues with difficult concepts.
• Strong experience in Bare metal / embedded C/C++.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical & diagnostic skills.
• Ability to work across teams and programming languages to find root causes of critical and complex issues.
• Experience of the post-silicon validation process applied in digital ASIC environments.
• Python, Linux.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain difficult concepts to resolve issues.

Responsibilities

• Plan, design, develop and debug silicon validation tests in bare metal C/C++ on FPGA/Emulator prior to first silicon.
• Deploy silicon validation tests on first silicon and debugging them.
• Develop automated test framework and regression test suites in Python to optimize validation efficiency.
• Collaborate closely with engineers from many other disciplines on a variety of topics.
• Work with Validation and Production Test engineering peers to implement best practices and continuous improvements to test methodologies.
• Analyse test results, identify and debug failures/defects.
• Contribute to shared test and validation infrastructure.
• Provide feedback to architects.

Skills

Bare metal C/C++

Python

Linux

Problem solving

Team leadership

Job description

Graphcore is opening a new AI Engineering Campus in Austin, Texas, hiring a Director-level post-silicon validation leader to validate high‑performance AI chips and platforms. You will guide a cross-functional team through post-silicon bring-up, validate full SoC functionality, and ensure a fully characterized product with strong collaboration across hardware, firmware, and software engineering teams.

You will lead validation efforts, report progress to management, mentor engineers, and drive