Staff AI Hardware Diagnostics & Validation Engineer

Graphcore; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Job summary

Graphcore in Austin, Texas is seeking a Staff System Tests & Diagnostics Engineer to develop and extend silicon validation diagnostics and stress tools for next-generation AI SoCs. You will work with Arm-derived technologies and Graphcore-specific capabilities to improve platform observability during bring-up and validation.

The role emphasizes building reusable diagnostics, exposing hardware failures, and ensuring data integrity across CPUs, accelerators, memory, PCIe, firmware, and BMC within

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• Strong 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 understanding of modern server platform architecture and interactions within a complete system.
• Experience debugging hardware/software interactions across multiple layers of the platform.

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 and hardware instability.
• Design configurable diagnostic applications supporting multiple silicon revisions, platforms, and execution environments.
• Collaborate with hardware architects to understand new hardware capabilities and identify missing diagnostics.

Skills

Python

C/C++

System validation

Debugging

Hardware diagnostics

Server architecture

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

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

Tools

Arm diagnostics tools

Diagnostic software tools

Job description

Graphcore in Austin, Texas is seeking a Staff System Tests & Diagnostics Engineer to develop and extend silicon validation diagnostics and stress tools for next-generation AI SoCs. You will work with Arm-derived technologies and Graphcore-specific capabilities to improve platform observability during bring-up and validation.

The role emphasizes building reusable diagnostics, exposing hardware failures, and ensuring data integrity across CPUs, accelerators, memory, PCIe, firmware, and BMC within