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
The Staff System Software QA engineer is responsible for designing and delivering software validation and quality assurance solutions for the System Software group. This involves creating and executing tests, identifying errors and providing feedback that a final product meets both the requirements of the product at the expected levels of quality. You are expected to engage with all stakeholders inside the System Software group, show some technical initiative in designing and delivering solutions and support the more junior members of the team in acquiring news skills.
The Team
The System Software Group is charged with enabling the next generation of cutting-edge AI compute server class systems. We are responsible for all low-level firmware, Linux Kernel device drivers, baseboard management controllers, and platform support tools. Specifically, the System Software QA team ensure that the deliverables from the System Software group are of the highest standards for our customers.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Responsible for Test Design and development for projects within System
Software including Firmware, Kernel and Baseboard Management
Control modules.
- Responsible for Maintenance and Improvement of Python based in-house
Automation framework.
- Maintaining and Enhancing Continuous Integration against Simulations,
Emulations and Physical Hardware.
- Working closely with all System Software development teams supporting
a culture of Test-Driven Development.
Candidate Profile
Essential:
- Test design and development experience for Firmware and/or Linux kernel.
- Understanding of OS kernel and device driver primitives with experience in Linux or similar systems.
- Experience in performance and latency measurements for a low-level software stack.
- Knowledge of virtualisation and hypervisor concepts.
- Working experience in one or more of these: OpenBMC, Firmware, Kernel Internals, Low level Security testing.
- Strong Proficiency in: C, C++ and Python.
- Possess excellent written and oral communication skills, good work ethics, high sense of teamwork, love to produce quality work and commitment to finish your tasks every single day. You are a self-starter who loves to find creative solutions to challenging problems.
Desirable
- Experience in Chip level or Platform security tests.
- Contributions to open-source forums: Linux/ OpenBMC.
- Experience with Kubernetes integration to system software.
- ISTQB certifications.
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
Top Skills
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.
