Staff System Tests & Diagnostics Engineer

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Staff System Tests & Diagnostics Engineer in USA

Graphcore
Full time
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USA
09/17/2026
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Austin, TX

Responsibilities

Extend Arm diagnostics tools to support Graphcore's next-generation AI platforms.
Develop system-level diagnostics and stress-testing software for CPUs, memory, interconnects, PCIe, and other system components.
Build reusable validation libraries and utilities that integrate with the existing validation framework.
Develop configurable, parameterized diagnostics supporting multiple silicon revisions, platforms, and execution environments.
Automate diagnostic execution across server and rack-scale validation environments.
Expose intermittent failures such as silent data corruption, timing issues, and hardware instability.
Collaborate with hardware architects, firmware engineers, validation engineers, and diagnostics teams.
Debug low-level hardware, firmware, operating system, and driver interactions.
Analyze diagnostic output and improve fault isolation, observability, and failure reproduction.

Requirements

Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
10+ years of experience developing hardware diagnostics, system validation software, firmware validation tools, or low-level systems software.
Strong Python and C/C++ software development skills.
Strong Linux systems experience.
Strong understanding of server platform architecture, including CPU, memory, PCIe, storage, networking, firmware, operating systems, and device drivers.
Experience debugging hardware/software interactions across multiple platform layers.
Experience developing diagnostics, stress-testing, or hardware validation software.
Experience with server platforms, embedded systems, or SoC validation.
Strong analytical, debugging, communication, and problem-solving skills.
Preferred qualifications include Arm-based server platforms, AI accelerators, high-performance computing, silent data corruption testing, power transient analysis, fault injection, firmware validation, silicon bring-up, performance characterization, hardware telemetry, BMC firmware, and RAS technologies.
Preferred subsystem validation experience includes CPU scaling and cache behavior, DDR/HBM bandwidth and latency, NUMA effects, interconnect contention, PCIe/I-O performance, and high-speed I/O.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements.
Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Accounts.
Disability and life insurance.
401(k) retirement plan.
Commuter benefits, wellness services, and an Employee Assistance Programme.
Inclusive equal-opportunity workplace with reasonable interview adjustments available.

Graphcore

At Graphcore, we’re building the future of AI compute. We’re a team of semiconductor, software and AI experts, with deep experience in creating the complete AI compute stack - from silicon and software to infrastructure at datacenter scale. As part of the SoftBank Group, backed by significant lon...

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