Validation Chief of Staff

Linuxconfig; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Graphcore is seeking a Validation Chief of Staff to partner with validation leadership, coordinating execution across bring-up initiatives and aligning cross-functional teams toward product readiness. You will drive planning, tracking, and risk management to ensure milestones are met in a fast-moving hardware/software environment.

You will also support leadership reviews, improve operational processes, and lead structured reporting across validation, architecture, silicon, firmware, software and

Qualifications

• Strong experience in silicon validation, post-silicon bring-up, or system validation.
• Understanding hardware and software lifecycles for complex SoCs.
• Experience coordinating multi-disciplinary engineering activities.
• Excellent organizational and planning skills.
• Analytical and problem-solving capabilities in complex environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management across teams.
• Experience creating structured reporting and operational reviews.
• Ability to work across distributed teams.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate execution across multiple validation and bring-up initiatives.
• Drive planning, prioritisation and tracking across validation programs and milestones.
• Improve visibility of project status, risks, dependencies and readiness.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities among validation, architecture, silicon, firmware, software and systems eng.
• Support leadership reviews and validation status reporting.
• Define and improve operational processes and workflows across validation.
• Track validation metrics and deliverables to support execution and decisions.
• Drive continuous improvement of validation infrastructure and processes.

Skills

Silicon validation

Cross-functional coordination

Stakeholder management

Communication

Linux

Python

Project tracking

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Graphcore is an AI compute innovator developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure for next-generation AI. The Validation Chief of Staff reports to senior leadership and will drive strategic execution, operational coordination and cross-functional alignment across the validation organisation, supporting silicon validation, bring-up and product readiness activities.

What You'll Do

• Partner with validation leadership to coordinate execution across multiple validation and bring-up initiatives
• Drive organisational planning, prioritisation and operational tracking across validation programs and milestones
• Improve visibility of project status, technical risks, dependencies and execution readiness across teams
• Coordinate cross-functional activities between validation, architecture, silicon, firmware, software and systems engineering teams
• Support leadership reviews, engineering readiness assessments and validation status reporting
• Help define and improve operational processes, engineering workflows and communication structures across the validation organisation
• Track key validation metrics, milestones and deliverables to support organisational execution and decision-making
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives related to validation infrastructure, engineering processes and operational efficiency

What You Need

• Strong experience working within silicon validation, post-silicon bring-up, system validation or related engineering environments
• Strong understanding of hardware and software development lifecycles for complex SoC or platform products
• Experience coordinating cross-functional engineering activities across multiple technical disciplines
• Excellent organisational, planning and operational coordination skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with ability to manage complex technical and organisational dependencies
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across multidisciplinary engineering organisations
• Experience creating structured reporting, tracking and operational review mechanisms
• Ability to work effectively across geographically distributed teams and stakeholders
• Strong attention to detail with ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• Experience using collaboration, reporting and project tracking tools within engineering environments
• Ability to operate independently in fast-moving and technically complex environments
• Strong Linux and Python familiarity within engineering workflows and validation environments

Nice to Have

• Experience within post-silicon validation, debug or characterization organizations
• Understanding of SoC architectures, high-speed interfaces, memory systems and system integration challenges
• Experience supporting engineering leadership or operational execution within technical organizations
• Familiarity with validation infrastructure, regression systems and engineering workflows
• Experience with silicon bring-up and product readiness processes
• Knowledge of AI accelerator, GPU or high-performance compute systems
• Experience analyzing engineering execution metrics and operational data
• Familiarity with agile planning, milestone tracking and engineering program coordination
• Experience working across globally distributed engineering organizations

Competitive salary plus comprehensive benefits package including 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 and Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)