Senior System Diagnostics & Tests Lead

Graphcore; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)

Disability and life insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Commuter benefits

Wellness services

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Job summary

Graphcore in Austin, Texas, is seeking a Technical Lead for System Tests and Diagnostics to design and extend silicon validation and diagnostic tools for next-generation AI hardware. You will collaborate with Arm-based workflows and internal teams to expose data integrity, performance, and reliability issues across CPUs, memory, PCIe, firmware, and accelerators.

The role emphasizes building reusable diagnostics, stress tools, and scalable configurations across silicon revisions, with close

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 12+ years of experience developing hardware diagnostics, system validation software, firmware validation tools, or low-level systems software.
• Strong software development skills in Python and C/C++.
• Experience debugging hardware/software interactions across multiple layers of the platform.

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 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 supporting multiple silicon revisions, platforms, and execution environments.
• Develop automation for executing diagnostics across server and rack-scale validation environments.
• Design configuration-driven diagnostics supporting scalable parameterization and workload variation.
• Collaborate with hardware architects to understand new hardware capabilities and identify missing diagnostics.
• Work closely with firmware and validation teams to improve hardware observability.
• Debug low-level hardware, firmware, operating system, 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 that improve engineering productivity across multiple validation teams.

Skills

Python

C/C++

System validation

Debugging

Diagnostics

Collaboration

Education

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

Tools

Arm-based platforms

Job description

Graphcore in Austin, Texas, is seeking a Technical Lead for System Tests and Diagnostics to design and extend silicon validation and diagnostic tools for next-generation AI hardware. You will collaborate with Arm-based workflows and internal teams to expose data integrity, performance, and reliability issues across CPUs, memory, PCIe, firmware, and accelerators.

The role emphasizes building reusable diagnostics, stress tools, and scalable configurations across silicon revisions, with close