Technical Lead, System Diagnostics & Validation

Graphcore; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible working

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

401(k) retirement plan

Commuter benefits

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Job summary

Graphcore, based in Austin, Texas, seeks a Technical Lead for System Tests & Diagnostics to advance diagnostic software for next‑generation AI SoCs. You will extend Arm-based diagnostics, build stress tools, and drive observability across CPU, memory, PCIe, and platform components.

You will collaborate with hardware, firmware, and validation teams to deliver scalable, configurable diagnostics and reusable libraries that boost engineering productivity and silicon bring‑up quality.

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 how CPU, memory, PCIe, storage, networking, firmware, OS and drivers interact.
• Experience debugging hardware/software interactions across multiple layers of the platform.
• Experience developing diagnostics, stress testing, or hardware validation software.

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

C/C++

Diagnostics tools

Debugging

Server platform architecture

Communication skills

Education

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

Job description

Graphcore, based in Austin, Texas, seeks a Technical Lead for System Tests & Diagnostics to advance diagnostic software for next‑generation AI SoCs. You will extend Arm-based diagnostics, build stress tools, and drive observability across CPU, memory, PCIe, and platform components.

You will collaborate with hardware, firmware, and validation teams to deliver scalable, configurable diagnostics and reusable libraries that boost engineering productivity and silicon bring‑up quality.