Senior Execution and Quality Validation 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 execute validation strategies for silicon, subsystem, and platform technologies. You will create test plans, develop automation and reporting infrastructure, analyze results, investigate failures, improve test coverage, and support product readiness through scalable validation methods.
Requirements
- Silicon, hardware, or system validation experience
- Validation methodology, test planning, test execution, and quality-process knowledge
- Validation automation and test orchestration experience
- Python programming for automation, analysis, and infrastructure
- Hardware systems, silicon bring-up, and validation workflow knowledge
- Experience translating requirements into validation plans and test cases
- Root-cause investigation and validation result analysis experience
- Knowledge of validation coverage, quality metrics, release readiness, and risk assessment
- Cross-functional engineering collaboration skills
- Analytical, diagnostic, problem-solving, and communication skills
Responsibilities
- Execute validation strategies for functional, performance, reliability, and stress testing
- Plan, optimize, verify, and test electronic systems and validation infrastructure
- Develop and execute validation plans and test cases
- Design and maintain test automation frameworks and regression suites
- Support silicon and platform validation from bring-up through readiness
- Analyze validation results and system behavior
- Improve test coverage with cross-functional engineering teams
- Develop automated data collection, analysis, and reporting solutions
- Investigate validation failures through root-cause analysis
- Improve validation workflows, automation, documentation, and standards