Technical Lead: System Diagnostics & Validation

Graphcore; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k)

Flexible working

Job summary

Graphcore in Austin, Texas seeks a Technical Lead for System Tests & Diagnostics to develop silicon validation tools and exposure diagnostics for AI SoCs. You will extend Arm-based diagnostics, create stress-testing software across CPU, memory, PCIe, and platform components, and collaborate with hardware, firmware, and validation teams to improve observability.

Required 12+ years in hardware diagnostics or low-level software, strong Python/C++ skills, and deep server architecture knowledge.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 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 understanding of modern server platform architecture and hardware/software interactions.

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.

Job description

Graphcore in Austin, Texas seeks a Technical Lead for System Tests & Diagnostics to develop silicon validation tools and exposure diagnostics for AI SoCs. You will extend Arm-based diagnostics, create stress-testing software across CPU, memory, PCIe, and platform components, and collaborate with hardware, firmware, and validation teams to improve observability.

Required 12+ years in hardware diagnostics or low-level software, strong Python/C++ skills, and deep server architecture knowledge.