Principal Hardware Diagnostics Engineer
Graphcore is a Bristol-based AI chipmaker (IPU accelerators), a SoftBank subsidiary and a Molten Ventures portfolio company.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
About Graphcore
Graphcore (graphcore.ai) is a British semiconductor company building Intelligence Processing Units (IPUs) for AI workloads. Founded in Bristol in 2016, it was acquired by SoftBank in 2024. It is a portfolio company of Molten Ventures.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will design and develop diagnostics software that monitors hardware health and diagnoses system-level issues across AI infrastructure platforms. You will build diagnostic agents, monitoring tools, analytics frameworks, and remediation workflows for blade-level servers and rack-scale clusters, integrate low-level diagnostics across the system stack, and provide fault information that accelerates troubleshooting.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline
- Strong software engineering experience in Python, C++, or C#
- Experience developing diagnostics or monitoring systems for hardware platforms
- Experience with distributed systems or cloud infrastructure
- Strong knowledge of Linux environments and system-level diagnostics tools
- Experience collaborating with CM or ODM partners on manufacturing diagnostics and fault isolation
- Strong analytical and debugging skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities
Responsibilities
- Design and develop automated hardware diagnostics for blade-level servers and rack-scale AI systems
- Architect and implement diagnostic agents, monitoring tools, and telemetry analytics frameworks
- Integrate low-level diagnostic modules into monitoring systems with hardware teams
- Develop tools that detect hardware health conditions and isolate failures
- Create diagnostic modules for internal validation and production datacenter operations
- Provide detailed hardware fault information to system engineers
- Define remediation workflows and insights for hardware faults across nodes and clusters
- Integrate diagnostics across the system stack with firmware, networking, and cloud platform teams
Benefits
- Flexible working
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Health Savings Accounts
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Commuter benefits
- Wellness services
- Employee Assistance Programme