Staff System Diagnostics Engineer – AI Silicon Validation

Graphcore; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

USA Benefits

Job summary

Graphcore in Austin, Texas seeks a Staff System Tests & Diagnostics Engineer to develop specialized silicon validation and diagnostics tools for next-generation AI SoCs. You will extend Arm-based diagnostics, expose hardware failures, and improve platform observability throughout bring-up and validation.

Collaborating with hardware architects, firmware, validation, and diagnostics teams, you will create reusable diagnostics for multiple silicon revisions and execution environments, tackling data

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ 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++.

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 programming

C/C++ programming

Analytical skills

Debugging skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Electrical Engineering

Tools

Python

C/C++

Job description

Graphcore in Austin, Texas seeks a Staff System Tests & Diagnostics Engineer to develop specialized silicon validation and diagnostics tools for next-generation AI SoCs. You will extend Arm-based diagnostics, expose hardware failures, and improve platform observability throughout bring-up and validation.

Collaborating with hardware architects, firmware, validation, and diagnostics teams, you will create reusable diagnostics for multiple silicon revisions and execution environments, tackling data