Staff Cloud Software 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 build Go services that connect AI accelerator hardware with Kubernetes. You will design production services, develop CRDs, operators, and Kubernetes components, collaborate on architecture and roadmaps, mentor engineers, improve code quality and observability, and help deliver cloud-native AI compute.
Requirements
- Strong Go engineering experience
- Experience delivering complex production software
- Kubernetes architecture
- Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs)
- Kubernetes operators
- Cloud-native integration patterns
- Linux
- Distributed systems debugging
- Technical initiative leadership
- Engineering mentorship
- Code quality
- Observability
- Automation
- Developer experience
- C1-level English communication
Responsibilities
- Build Go services that connect accelerator hardware with Kubernetes
- Design reliable, performant, and observable production services
- Develop CRDs, operators, and Kubernetes components
- Partner with hardware, cloud, and ML engineers on design and roadmap priorities
- Lead technical areas
- Mentor engineers through design, review, and delivery
- Improve code quality, observability, automation, and developer experience
Benefits
- Flexible working
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Family healthcare coverage
- Phantom equity
- Fitness and wellbeing support
- Medicover gym card
- Death and disability insurance
- Retirement savings
- 4% employer contribution
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)