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Together, they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone.\nGraphcore’s teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives. A melting pot of AI research specialists, silicon designers, software engineers, and systems architects, Graphcore enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation.\nJob Summary\nReporting to the Validation leadership team, the Principal Execution and Quality Validation Engineer will be responsible for driving validation execution, automation, product quality, and release readiness across Graphcore silicon and platform technologies.\nThe role combines deep expertise in hardware validation, test automation, and quality engineering with a strong focus on execution excellence. Working closely with architecture, design, verification, firmware, software, systems engineering, and validation teams, the successful candidate will develop scalable validation methodologies, improve test coverage and execution efficiency, and ensure products meet the highest standards of functionality, reliability, and performance before customer deployment.\nAs a recognized technical leader within the validation organisation, this role will influence validation strategies, automation roadmaps, and quality practices across multiple projects and engineering disciplines.\nThe Team\nThe Validation Execution and Quality team sits within the Validation organisation and is responsible for improving validation effectiveness, test execution efficiency, product quality, and release readiness across Graphcore silicon and platform products.\nThe team develops validation methodologies, automation frameworks, test execution infrastructure, and quality processes that enable engineering teams to execute validation activities at scale. Working closely with validation, architecture, firmware, software, systems, and design teams, the group helps ensure products are thoroughly validated before release.\nResponsibilities and Duties\nDefine and drive validation strategies for complex silicon, subsystem, and platform technologies, ensuring comprehensive coverage across functional, performance, reliability, and stress testing \nLeverage advanced hardware knowledge to plan, optimize, verify, and test critical electronic systems, including silicon, FPGA-based platforms, test systems, and associated validation infrastructure \nDevelop and execute validation plans that ensure products meet quality, reliability, and performance objectives before release \nCreate detailed test plans from high-level validation requirements and test cases, ensuring timely execution and high-fidelity results \nDesign, develop, and maintain automation frameworks that enable rapid execution of test plans, regression suites, and validation activities \nLead silicon and platform validation activities from bring-up through product readiness \nConduct complex analysis of validation results and system behaviour to identify issues and opportunities for improvement \nCollaborate with architecture, design, verification, firmware, software, systems engineering, and validation teams to implement new validation requirements and improve test coverage \nIntegrate new validation capabilities, methodologies, and test solutions into existing validation infrastructure to improve productivity, quality, and execution efficiency \nDevelop automated data collection, analysis, and reporting solutions to improve engineering visibility and decision-making \nEvaluate complex design features to identify functional, compatibility, integration, and reliability risks \nInvestigate and drive resolution of complex validation failures through structured debug and root-cause analysis methodologies \nAssess validation techniques, workflows, and engineering processes, introducing automation and process improvements to maximize productivity \nSupport power, performance, and system-level validation activities through development of scalable validation infrastructure and methodologies \nInfluence validation roadmaps, infrastructure development, and engineering best practices across the validation organisation \nAct as the final validation authority for assigned areas, ensuring issues are identified and resolved before products reach customers \nDrive continuous improvement initiatives that improve validation quality, execution efficiency, and engineering productivity \nMentor engineers on validation methodologies, automation frameworks, test execution strategies, and quality practices \nCandidate Profile\nEssential:\nStrong experience in silicon validation, hardware validation, system validation, or related engineering disciplines \nDeep understanding of validation methodologies, test planning, test execution, and quality processes \nStrong 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