Staff AI System Diagnostics & Validation Engineer

Graphcore; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible working

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

FSAs

HSAs

Disability and life insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Commuter benefits

Wellness services

EAP

Job summary

Graphcore in Austin, Texas, seeks a Staff System Tests & Diagnostics Engineer to develop, extend, and integrate specialized silicon validation and diagnostics tools for next-generation AI SoCs. You will build diagnostic software that reveals hardware failures and characterizes silicon behavior, collaborating with Arm engineers and Graphcore teams.

You will design scalable diagnostics across CPUs, accelerators, memory, PCIe, firmware, and platform components, enabling reproducible fault isolation

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a 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, including CPU, memory, PCIe, storage, networking, firmware, OS, and device drivers interactions.

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.
• Develop automation for executing diagnostics across server and rack-scale validation environments.
• Collaborate with hardware architects to understand new 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++

Hardware diagnostics

Server platforms

Debugging

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in relevant field

Tools

Arm diagnostics tools

Job description

Graphcore in Austin, Texas, seeks a Staff System Tests & Diagnostics Engineer to develop, extend, and integrate specialized silicon validation and diagnostics tools for next-generation AI SoCs. You will build diagnostic software that reveals hardware failures and characterizes silicon behavior, collaborating with Arm engineers and Graphcore teams.

You will design scalable diagnostics across CPUs, accelerators, memory, PCIe, firmware, and platform components, enabling reproducible fault isolation