Hardware Validation and Debug Engineer
Graphcore is a SoftBank-owned AI-compute company developing AI processors, systems, and software for machine-learning workloads.
Funding history
About Graphcore
Graphcore develops Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs) and the Poplar SDK for building and running machine-learning applications. It continues operating under the Graphcore name as a wholly owned SoftBank Group subsidiary.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own hands-on validation and debug work in the lab for silicon platforms and hardware systems. You will perform board bring-up, tune links, investigate failures, debug signal integrity and protocol issues, conduct PCIe testing, and drive root-cause resolution across engineering disciplines.
Requirements
- Hands-on hardware validation experience
- Board bring-up and subsystem debugging
- Experience validating and debugging Ethernet, PCIe Root Complex, and SerDes systems
- Experience using oscilloscopes, BERT systems, VNA/TDR equipment, and PCIe protocol analysers
- Ability to debug signal integrity, protocol-level, and interface issues
- PCIe bring-up
- LTSSM analysis
- Link training
- Equalization tuning
- Interoperability testing
- Ability to work independently and drive issue resolution across teams
- Legal right to work in the UK
Responsibilities
- Validate and debug silicon platforms and hardware systems
- Perform board bring-up and subsystem debugging
- Validate and debug Ethernet, PCIe Root Complex, and SerDes systems
- Tune links and investigate failures
- Debug signal integrity, protocol-level, and interface issues through to root cause
- Perform PCIe bring-up, LTSSM analysis, link training, equalization tuning, and interoperability testing
- Drive issue resolution across teams
Benefits
- Flexible working
- Generous leave
- Up to 5% matched pension
- Phantom equity
- Office spaces designed for collaboration
- Free food and an on-site barista
- Income protection
- Life assurance
- Private medical insurance
- Dental cover
- Health cash plan
- Cycle to work scheme
- Give as you earn