Senior QA Engineer
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 validate the workload-management stack for AI accelerator hardware and ensure Kubernetes integrations are reliable, scalable, and ready for production. You will design and develop automated test suites, build system and integration tests, improve CI/CD quality practices, and investigate issues across Kubernetes, infrastructure, and application layers. You will contribute to test strategy and validation planning, improve test coverage, and provide technical guidance, code reviews, and testing-practice support to less experienced engineers.
Requirements
- Strong Python programming experience focused on automation and test engineering
- Hands-on experience with Robot Framework or similar automation frameworks
- Experience testing cloud-native, containerised, or distributed systems
- Strong Linux and Kubernetes understanding and confidence debugging across multiple system layers
- Experience with CI/CD systems such as GitLab CI or GitHub Actions
- Ability to improve test coverage, raise quality standards, and support other QA engineers
- Legal right to work in Poland
Responsibilities
- Validate the workload-management stack for AI accelerator hardware
- Ensure Kubernetes integrations are reliable, scalable, and production-ready
- Design and develop automated test suites
- Build system and integration tests
- Improve CI/CD quality practices
- Investigate and debug issues across Kubernetes, infrastructure, and application layers
- Contribute to test strategy and validation planning
- Improve test coverage and quality standards
- Provide technical guidance, code reviews, and testing-practice support to less experienced QA engineers
Benefits
- Flexible working arrangements
- Medical and dental insurance, with optional family cover
- Phantom equity
- Fully funded Medicover gym card
- Death and disability insurance
- 4% employer retirement contribution
- Employee Assistance Programme