Staff QA Engineer Workload Management
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 validate the workload management stack for AI accelerator hardware and help ensure Kubernetes integrations are robust, scalable, and production-ready. You will design automated test suites, build system and integration tests, improve CI/CD quality practices, debug Kubernetes and infrastructure issues, define quality standards, improve test coverage, and mentor QA 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, containerized, or distributed systems
- Strong Linux understanding and confidence debugging across system layers
- Experience with CI/CD systems such as GitLab CI or GitHub Actions
- Ability to define quality standards and improve test coverage
- Legal right to work in Poland
Responsibilities
- Validate the workload management stack for AI accelerator hardware
- Test Kubernetes integrations across distributed environments
- Design automated test suites
- Build system and integration tests
- Improve CI/CD quality practices
- Debug issues across Kubernetes, infrastructure, and applications
- Define quality standards
- Improve test coverage
- Mentor QA engineers
Benefits
- Flexible working
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Family healthcare coverage
- Phantom equity
- Medicover gym card
- Fitness classes
- Death insurance
- Disability insurance
- Retirement savings with 4% employer contribution
- Employee Assistance Programme
