Staff Hardware Engineer, AI Compute & Rack-Scale

Cerebras; Milpitas (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; 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 Milpitas, CA, is seeking a Staff Hardware Engineer to provide advanced operational, diagnostic, and engineering support for our Arm-based HPC hardware platforms across lab and data center environments.

The role focuses on hardware bring-up, validation, troubleshooting of server blades, racks, and rack-scale infrastructure, with collaboration across engineering, platform, and data center teams to ensure reliability and performance of AI compute systems.

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience with server hardware architectures and board-level debugging.
• Experience analyzing system logs, hardware telemetry, and power/thermal metrics to isolate hardware failures.
• Hands-on experience with HPC systems, AI compute platforms, or rack-scale infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Lead advanced break-fix troubleshooting for server blades, motherboards, power systems, and rack-scale infrastructure.
• Support engineering bring-up activities, including component validation and firmware interaction testing.
• Diagnose system-level failures involving thermal behavior, power anomalies, network configuration, and BIOS/BMC issues.
• Collaborate with server engineering teams to perform root cause analysis and propose corrective actions or design improvements.
• Support deployment and rollout of next-generation hardware platforms through structured validation and qualification cycles.
• Interface with facilities and infrastructure teams to understand environmental factors impacting system reliability.
• Develop and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs), troubleshooting guides, and validation documentation.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior technicians and engineers on troubleshooting methodologies and hardware diagnostics.
• Participate in on‑call rotations or off‑hours support during critical engineering milestones or hardware bring‑up phases.

Skills

Server hardware architectures

Board-level debugging

Telemetry analysis

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science

Tools

Python

Bash

Automation tools

Job description

Graphcore in Milpitas, CA, is seeking a Staff Hardware Engineer to provide advanced operational, diagnostic, and engineering support for our Arm-based HPC hardware platforms across lab and data center environments.

The role focuses on hardware bring-up, validation, troubleshooting of server blades, racks, and rack-scale infrastructure, with collaboration across engineering, platform, and data center teams to ensure reliability and performance of AI compute systems.