Director - Post-Silicon Validation (Functional)

EngineersOfAI; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Graphcore is seeking a Director-Post Silicon Validation in Austin, Texas. You'll lead a cross-functional team focused on validating cutting-edge AI chips and platforms, ensuring product readiness for market.

Your role involves designing tests, debugging first silicon, and automating test frameworks. Join a leadership team at the forefront of AI innovation, transforming technology for the future.

Qualifications

• Deep technical understanding of silicon validation.
• Experience working in a cross-functional development team.
• Ability to report project status to management.

Responsibilities

• Plan, design, develop and debug silicon validation tests.
• Deploy silicon validation tests on first silicon.
• Develop automated test framework and regression test suites.

Skills

Hands-on debug experience

C/C++ programming

Automated test development

Job description

Graphcore

Director-Post Silicon Validation (Functional)

Graphcore is a globally recognised leader in Artificial Intelligence computing systems. The company designs advanced semiconductors and data centre hardware that provide the specialised processing power needed to drive AI innovation, while delivering the efficiency required to support its broader adoption.

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. We are opening a new AI Engineering Campus in Austin, Texas which will play a central role in Graphcore's work building the future of AI computing.

We are developing the next generation of AI compute, a large-scale system-on-chip (SoC) designed to power future high-performance AI systems.

Job Summary

We have an exciting opportunity to be part of a collaborative, cross‑functional development team validating cutting‑edge, high‑performance AI chips and platforms.

You will play a key role in supporting new product introductions and validation. You will lead a team delivering post‑silicon validation across the full AI SoC, working across silicon, firmware, and platform levels. The role requires a deep technical understanding, strong hands‑on debug experience, and the ability to collaborate effectively with hardware, software, and systems engineering teams.

Working within the Validation team, you will be involved with bringing first silicon to life, functionally validating it and working closely with many other teams to help it become a fully characterised and working product, reporting project status/progress to program management on a regular basis. You will have the opportunity to provide technical guidance to other engineering team members. In this role, you can leverage our experience and industry knowledge to architect and drive implementation of continuous improvements to test infrastructure and processes.

The Team

The Post‑Silicon Bringup team sits within the Architecture and Validation team, we are responsible for bringup and validation of new silicon when it returns from manufacture, enabling and supporting the production SW and FW teams to bring up their software and supporting the Silicon Characterisation team.

Responsibilities and Duties

• 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 Pyt