Talent Acquisition Partner
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 lead end-to-end recruitment for technical roles, from initial briefing through offer. You will source and engage talent, develop hiring strategies with managers and HRBPs, manage candidate pipelines, coordinate interviews, offers, contracts, and hiring logistics, and maintain accurate ATS data. You will use recruitment data and market insights to improve hiring outcomes, contribute to talent projects, support employer-brand activities, and coach hiring managers on effective interviewing and selection.
Requirements
- Experience in similar talent acquisition roles within the technology sector
- Experience recruiting highly technical and niche roles
- Experience recruiting for technical roles, ideally silicon or software engineering
- Strong direct sourcing capabilities and ability to engage passive candidates
- Experience managing end-to-end recruitment processes, including contracts and offer letters
- Ability to create and implement hiring strategies
- Accuracy in maintaining trackers and Greenhouse ATS data
- Consultative experience supporting hiring managers through recruitment
- Ability to interpret recruitment data and market insights
- Experience delivering diversity, process-improvement, or employer-brand projects
- Organisational, communication, and presentation skills
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end recruitment across technical roles from initial briefing through offer
- Source and engage high-quality technical talent
- Partner with hiring managers and HRBPs to define hiring strategies and role requirements
- Manage candidate pipelines and candidate experience
- Drive structured and consistent interview processes
- Manage offers, contracts, and hiring logistics
- Advise hiring managers on market insights, hiring approaches, and decision-making
- Coach hiring managers on interviewing and selection practices
- Maintain accurate data in Greenhouse
- Use data and insights to improve hiring outcomes
- Improve hiring processes, tools, and ways of working
- Support talent projects including employer branding, diversity, and candidate experience
- Partner with Marketing on employer-brand representation
- Contribute to external talent-attraction activities