Senior AI Silicon Diagnostics & Validation Engineer

Graphcore; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

401(k) plan

FSAs/HSAs

Wellness services

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Job summary

Graphcore in Austin, TX seeks a System Tests & Diagnostics Engineer to develop silicon validation tools, extending Arm-based diagnostics, and building robust platform observability for future AI hardware.

You will work with hardware, firmware, validation, and diagnostics teams to expose data integrity issues, performance bottlenecks, and reliability risks across CPUs, memory, PCIe, and firmware components, while enabling rapid bring‑up.

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 Linux systems experience.
• Strong understanding of modern server platform architecture and component interactions (CPU, memory, PCIe, storage, networking, firmware, OS, drivers).
• Experience debugging hardware/software interactions across multiple layers.
• Experience developing diagnostics, stress testing, or hardware validation software.
• Experience with server platforms, embedded systems, or SoC validation.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills.
• Experience collaborating across hardware, firmware, software, and validation teams.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.

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, timing-related issues, and hardware instability.
• Design configurable diagnostic applications for multiple silicon revisions, platforms, and environments.
• Automate diagnostics across server and rack-scale validation environments.
• Design configuration-driven diagnostics with 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 hardware failures.
• Contribute reusable libraries and utilities that improve engineering productivity across validation teams.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Linux

Hardware/software debugging

Diagnostics development

Stress testing

Server platforms

Embedded systems

Collaboration across teams

Communication & problem solving

Education

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

Tools

Arm-based server platforms

Job description

Graphcore in Austin, TX seeks a System Tests & Diagnostics Engineer to develop silicon validation tools, extending Arm-based diagnostics, and building robust platform observability for future AI hardware.

You will work with hardware, firmware, validation, and diagnostics teams to expose data integrity issues, performance bottlenecks, and reliability risks across CPUs, memory, PCIe, and firmware components, while enabling rapid bring‑up.