Senior Hardware Diagnostics Engineer (AI Compute Infra)

Cerebras; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

FSAs

HSAs

Disability and life insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Commuter benefits

Wellness services

EAP

Job summary

Graphcore is seeking an experienced Principal Hardware Diagnostics Engineer to design and develop diagnostics software that monitors hardware health and diagnoses system‑level issues across its AI infrastructure platforms.

You will build diagnostics agents, tools, and analytics frameworks to identify, isolate, and resolve hardware issues across blade‑level servers and rack‑scale clusters, collaborating with hardware, firmware, cloud, and automation teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related discipline.
• Strong software engineering experience in Python, C++, or C#.
• Experience developing diagnostics or monitoring systems for hardware platforms.
• Experience working with distributed systems or cloud infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of Linux environments and system‑level diagnostics tools.
• Experience collaborating with CM/ODM partners on manufacturing diagnostics and fault isolation.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop automated hardware diagnostics solutions for blade-level servers and rack-scale AI systems.
• Architect and implement diagnostic agents, monitoring tools, and analytics frameworks to track hardware telemetry.
• Collaborate with hardware teams to integrate low‑level diagnostic modules into monitoring systems.
• Develop diagnostics tools capable of detecting hardware health conditions and isolating failures.
• Create diagnostic modules used for internal validation and production data center operations.
• Provide detailed hardware fault information to system engineers to accelerate troubleshooting.
• Define remediation workflows and insights for hardware fault scenarios across nodes and clusters.
• Collaborate with firmware, networking, and cloud platform teams to integrate diagnostics across the system stack.

Skills

Python

C++

C#

Analytical skills

Debugging skills

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in CS/CE or related

Job description

Graphcore is seeking an experienced Principal Hardware Diagnostics Engineer to design and develop diagnostics software that monitors hardware health and diagnoses system‑level issues across its AI infrastructure platforms.

You will build diagnostics agents, tools, and analytics frameworks to identify, isolate, and resolve hardware issues across blade‑level servers and rack‑scale clusters, collaborating with hardware, firmware, cloud, and automation teams.