Lead AI System Diagnostics & Validation Engineer

Graphcore; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Graphcore in Austin, Texas, is seeking a Principal System Tests & Diagnostics Engineer to advance silicon validation by developing diagnostic software and stress tools for next‑generation AI SoCs. You’ll collaborate with Arm engineers and Graphcore teams to extend diagnostics, validate CPU, memory, PCIe, and interconnect, and ensure platform reliability.

The role emphasizes scalable, configurable diagnostics across silicon revisions and server platforms, contributing to improve observability and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in CS/CE/EE or related field.
• Strong Python and C/C++ programming skills.
• Experience developing hardware diagnostics or low-level systems software.
• Experience debugging hardware/software across platform layers.

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 components.
• Build reusable validation utilities that integrate into the existing validation framework.
• Develop tools that expose intermittent hardware failures including silent data corruption and timing-related issues.
• Design configurable diagnostic applications for multiple silicon revisions, platforms, and execution environments.
• Develop automation for executing diagnostics across server and rack-scale validation environments.
• Design configuration-driven diagnostics for scalable parameterization and workload variation.
• Collaborate with hardware architects to understand new hardware capabilities and identify missing diagnostics.
• Work with firmware and validation teams to improve hardware observability.
• Debug low-level hardware, firmware, OS, and driver interactions.
• Analyze diagnostic output and improve fault isolation methodologies.
• Develop software that enables engineers to reproduce and investigate difficult hardware failures.
• Contribute reusable libraries and utilities to improve productivity across validation teams.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Diagnostics

Debugging

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline

Job description

Graphcore in Austin, Texas, is seeking a Principal System Tests & Diagnostics Engineer to advance silicon validation by developing diagnostic software and stress tools for next‑generation AI SoCs. You’ll collaborate with Arm engineers and Graphcore teams to extend diagnostics, validate CPU, memory, PCIe, and interconnect, and ensure platform reliability.

The role emphasizes scalable, configurable diagnostics across silicon revisions and server platforms, contributing to improve observability and