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Staff Systems Test Operations Engineer

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Graphcore

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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About the Role

You build manufacturing test solutions for advanced AI systems, develop test software and manufacturing test content, improve test infrastructure across server modules, blades and rack-scale systems, and solve technical challenges with hardware, firmware and software engineers. You define test coverage, investigate root causes, improve production quality through data, and provide technical guidance.

Requirements

  • Experience developing manufacturing test solutions for high-performance servers, accelerators or large-scale compute hardware
  • Technical leadership as an individual contributor
  • Understanding of silicon, board and system design
  • Experience defining test coverage and conducting root cause investigations
  • Linux experience
  • OpenBMC experience
  • Hardware diagnostics experience
  • Python, Bash or similar scripting and automation experience
  • Experience collaborating with hardware, firmware, software and platform teams
  • Experience with rack-scale or multi-node systems, high-speed interconnects and production qualification is desirable
  • Experience improving yield, test time and false fail rates is desirable
  • Knowledge of open-source manufacturing test, system bring-up and hardware diagnostic tools is desirable
  • Experience designing telemetry, self-test hooks or debug interfaces is desirable

Responsibilities

  • Build manufacturing test solutions for advanced AI systems
  • Develop test software and manufacturing test content
  • Improve test infrastructure across server modules, blades and rack-scale systems
  • Define test coverage
  • Lead complex root cause investigations
  • Improve manufacturing yield, test time and false fail rates through data-driven optimisation
  • Design testability and diagnosability features
  • Provide technical guidance through design reviews and debugging

Benefits

  • Unlimited annual leave
  • Medical insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Eye care cover
  • Annual health assessment
  • Phantom equity
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