About Graphcore
How often do you get the chance to build a technology that transforms the future of humanity? Graphcore products have set the standard in made-for-AI compute hardware and software, gaining global attention and industry acclaim. Now we are developing the next generation of artificial intelligence compute with systems that will allow AI researchers to develop more advanced models, help scientists unlock exciting new discoveries, and power companies around the world as they put AI at the heart of their business. Graphcore recently joined SoftBank Group – bringing large and ongoing investment from one of the world’s leading backers of innovative AI companies.
Job Summary
We are seeking a seasoned Technical Lead to join our Platform Quality Assurance team, responsible for influencing technical efforts across all constituent teams to achieve high quality testing practices. As part of this role, you will work closely with the Platform Quality Assurance director to develop and implement quality testing strategy.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Develop and maintain standards and processes for testing across all constituent teams.
- Collaborate with the Platform Quality Assurance director on the strategy.
- Coach and mentor Quality Assurance engineers within the constituent teams on best practices, tool selection, and process improvement.
- Develop the technical community within Platform Quality Assurance and Quality Assurance adjacent teams across the company.
- Maintain awareness of emerging industry trends and practices in the domain of testing and quality assurance.
Skills and Experience
[Essential]
- Strong expertise with integrated hardware and software testing and quality assurance.
- Demonstrated leadership, mentoring and/or coaching skills.
- Persuasive writer and speaker.
- Competent analytical and critical thinker, experience of making informed decisions.
- Aptitude for responsibilities & duties above.
- English- C1 level.
[Desirable]
- Domain experience of new product introduction (datacentre scale-up compute server).
- Experience of technical leadership accountability for quality assurance/testing.
- Experience of significantly influencing and drafting standards and processes of a quality assurance group.
- 14+ years of relevant experience related to quality assurance/testing teams.
- Experience with the Atlassian suite.
Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working, a generous annual leave policy, private medical insurance and health cash plan, a dental plan, pension (matched up to 5%), life assurance and income protection. We have a generous parental leave policy and an employee assistance programme (which includes health, mental wellbeing, and bereavement support). We offer a range of healthy food and snacks at our central Bristol office and have our own barista bar! We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we’re committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments.
What We Do
Graphcore has created a new processor, the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), specifically designed for artificial intelligence. The IPU’s unique architecture means developers can run current machine learning models orders of magnitude faster. More importantly, it lets AI researchers undertake entirely new types of work, not possible using current technologies, to drive the next great breakthroughs in general machine intelligence.
Our next generation 3D Wafer-on-Wafer Bow IPU systems are helping AI innovators worldwide to build better, more innovative AI solutions, whether their focus is on language and vision, exploring graph neural networks and LSTMs or creating something entirely new.
We believe our IPU technology will become the worldwide standard for artificial intelligence compute. The performance of Graphcore’s IPU is going to be transformative across all industries and sectors whether you are a medical researcher, roboticist or building autonomous cars.
Our team is at the forefront of the artificial intelligence revolution, enabling innovators from all industries and sectors to expand human potential with technology. What we do, really makes a difference.
We're always interested in hearing from exceptional people to join our team.
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