Senior System Diagnostics & Validation Engineer

Graphcore; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

Graphcore is seeking a System Tests & Diagnostics Engineer in Austin to develop and extend silicon validation tools for next-gen AI hardware. You will create diagnostic software and stress tools, expose hardware failures, and improve observability across CPU, memory, PCIe, storage, firmware, and BMC in collaboration with Arm engineers and Graphcore teams.

You will work on silent data corruption tests, power stress tools, and platform diagnostics, enabling scalable diagnostics across silicon

Qualifications

• 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++.
• Strong Linux systems experience.
• Strong understanding of modern server platform architecture and how CPU, memory, PCIe, storage, networking, firmware, OS, and device drivers interact.
• 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, 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 that improve engineering productivity across multiple validation teams.

Skills

Python

C/C++

Linux

Hardware diagnostics

System validation software

Debugging

Communication

Problem solving

Education

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

Tools

Git

Job description

Graphcore is seeking a System Tests & Diagnostics Engineer in Austin to develop and extend silicon validation tools for next-gen AI hardware. You will create diagnostic software and stress tools, expose hardware failures, and improve observability across CPU, memory, PCIe, storage, firmware, and BMC in collaboration with Arm engineers and Graphcore teams.

You will work on silent data corruption tests, power stress tools, and platform diagnostics, enabling scalable diagnostics across silicon