Senior AI Silicon Diagnostics Engineer

Graphcore; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible working

Medical, dental and vision coverage

FSAs

HSAs

401(k) retirement plan

Commuter benefits

Wellness services

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Job summary

Graphcore in Austin, TX seeks a Senior System Tests & Diagnostics Engineer to develop silicon validation tools and diagnostic software for next-generation AI SoCs. You will expose hardware failures, characterize silicon behavior, and improve platform observability throughout bring-up and validation.

You will work with Arm diagnostics technologies and Graphcore-specific capabilities, building reusable tools and scalable diagnostics across CPUs, memory, PCIe, firmware, and BMC components.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience developing hardware diagnostics, system validation software, or low-level systems software.
• Strong software development skills in Python and C/C++.
• Strong understanding of modern server platform architecture and interactions across CPU, memory, PCIe, storage, firmware and drivers.
• Experience debugging hardware/software interactions across multiple platform layers.
• Experience developing diagnostics, stress testing, or hardware validation software.
• Experience with server platforms, embedded systems, or SoC validation.
• Excellent analytical and debugging skills and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Learn and extend existing 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 hardware instability.
• Design configurable diagnostic applications supporting multiple silicon revisions and execution environments.
• Develop automation for executing diagnostics across server and rack-scale validation environments.
• Collaborate with hardware architects to translate new hardware capabilities into diagnostics.
• Work with firmware and validation teams to improve observability and fault isolation.
• Debug low-level hardware, firmware, OS, and driver interactions.
• Analyze diagnostic output to improve fault isolation methodologies.
• Create reusable libraries and utilities to boost engineering productivity across teams.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Debugging

Diagnostics

System validation

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science / Computer Engineering / Electrical Engineering

Tools

Arm diagnostics tools

Validation framework

Job description

Graphcore in Austin, TX seeks a Senior System Tests & Diagnostics Engineer to develop silicon validation tools and diagnostic software for next-generation AI SoCs. You will expose hardware failures, characterize silicon behavior, and improve platform observability throughout bring-up and validation.

You will work with Arm diagnostics technologies and Graphcore-specific capabilities, building reusable tools and scalable diagnostics across CPUs, memory, PCIe, firmware, and BMC components.