Senior Machine Learning Engineer Large Systems
Graphcore is a SoftBank-owned AI-compute company developing AI processors, systems, and software for machine-learning workloads.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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 implement, train, benchmark and optimise advanced machine-learning models across large accelerator systems. You will investigate performance bottlenecks, improve kernels and software, run experiments, evaluate releases, review code and collaborate on new AI hardware.
Requirements
- Proficiency with PyTorch or JAX
- Python or C++ software development
- Hardware-accelerated deep learning, including training, optimisation and evaluation
- Machine-learning experiment design, execution and reporting
- Performance-bottleneck analysis
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Technical communication
- Legal right to work in the UK
Responsibilities
- Implement and train machine-learning models across systems containing thousands of accelerators
- Optimise models for performance, accuracy and scalability
- Benchmark and profile models to identify performance bottlenecks
- Develop software-stack knowledge to optimise kernel implementations
- Test and evaluate software releases, provide feedback, fix code and conduct code reviews
- Design and conduct experiments on novel AI methods
- Collaborate to define, build and test next-generation AI hardware
- Engage with the AI community and track AI developments
Benefits
- Flexible working
- Generous leave
- Up to 5% matched pension
- Phantom equity
- Free food and drinks
- Income protection
- Life assurance
- Electric vehicle salary-sacrifice scheme
- Private medical insurance
- Dental cover
- Health cash plan
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Give-as-you-earn scheme