{"id":2055329,"url":"https://alion.io/job/graphcore-principal-storage-architect","title":"Principal Storage Architect","company":{"id":33,"name":"Graphcore","domain":"graphcore.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/graphcore","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":92,"open_postings":159,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.101,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":69,"computed_at":"2026-10-10T05:45:15Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Milpitas, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":155000,"max_usd":315000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":968},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Bash","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Rest API","optional":false},{"name":"Together AI","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-07T22:23:12Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-07","last_verified_at":"2026-10-10T23:24:05Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":3,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"About Graphcore\nGraphcore is a leading innovator in artificial intelligence computing. We develop hardware, software, and data center infrastructure that provide the specialized processing and systems capabilities needed to advance AI while improving the efficiency required for broad adoption.\nAs part of SoftBank Group, Graphcore works alongside companies developing advanced technologies. Our teams bring together AI researchers, silicon designers, hardware and software engineers, and systems architects to solve complex technical problems across the computing stack.\nThe Opportunity\nAs Principal Storage Architect, you will define the high-performance storage architecture for Graphcore's AI computing and data center infrastructures. You will lead the design of local and distributed storage tiers that provide the throughput, availability, and predictable tail latency required for large-scale training and inference.\nWorking within Advanced Architecture, you will address storage requirements for saving model states, offloading key-value caches, large datasets, and high-speed data-loading pipelines. You will combine hands-on performance engineering with Principal-level technical leadership across hardware, software, networking, systems engineering, automation, supply chain, and external technology partners.\nWhat You Will Do\nDefine the end-to-end architecture and technology roadmap for local, disaggregated, and distributed storage across Graphcore AI server and data center platforms.\nDesign storage topologies that optimize PCIe lane allocation, network-domain placement, and data paths among CPUs, AI accelerators, memory, and storage systems.\nLead the architecture of storage control-plane and data-plane solutions, evaluating commercial and open technologies against performance, resilience, manageability, and lifecycle requirements.\nProfile and tune the Linux storage stack, block layer, I/O schedulers, direct I/O paths, file systems, and drivers to improve IOPS, bandwidth, and 99.99th-percentile latency.\nOptimize storage for AI workloads, including model checkpointing, key-value cache offload, data ingestion, and direct data movement between NVMe storage and accelerator memory.\nSet the technical direction for NVMe SSD lifecycle management, including qualification, provisioning, health monitoring, firmware rollout, failure handling, and warranty-return automation across E1.S, E3.S, U.2, and U.3 devices.\nDefine telemetry and alerting requirements for direct-attached and distributed storage, including endurance, wear, drive writes per day, thermals, capacity, performance, and latency anomalies.\nProvide architecture requirements and technical guidance to automation teams building frameworks that characterize storage performance, reliability, and compatibility across AI platforms.\nLead root-cause analysis for complex storage failures and performance degradation across Linux kernels, drivers, PCIe, networks, SSD firmware, and third-party storage systems.\nPartner with storage vendors, supply chain, networking, systems engineering, and product teams to select, integrate, and deploy storage components and platforms.\nEvaluate emerging storage, interconnect, and memory-tiering technologies and translate relevant developments into platform requirements and future system designs.\nWhat You Will Bring\nA bachelor's or equivalent experience or master's degree in computer science, computer engineering, information technology, electrical engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nExtensive hands-on experience in storage engineering and architecture for AI, high-performance computing, hyperscale, or large data center environments, including technical leadership at Principal, Staff, or Lead Architect scope.\nDeep knowledge of NVMe, PCIe Gen5 or Gen6 architecture, NAND flash behavior, SSD form factors, endurance, firmware, and device lifecycle management.\nDeep operational knowledge of Linux storage internals, including the block layer, I/O schedulers, direct I/O, kernel and driver behavior, and file systems such as XFS, ext4, or ZFS.\nHands-on experience with storage benchmarking and profiling tools such as fio, blktrace, iostat, and perf, including the ability to design representative workload models and isolate bottlenecks.\nProgramming and automation skills in Python and Bash, with experience using structured data formats and REST APIs to build monitoring, validation, or lifecycle workflows.\nDemonstrated ability to diagnose complex hardware and software interactions, including kernel failures, PCIe errors, network issues, performance regressions, and SSD firmware defects.\nExperience defining telemetry signals, alert thresholds, dashboards, and operational response criteria for storage health and performance at fleet scale.\nProven ability to lead cross-functional architecture decisions, influence senior engineers and leaders, and communicate technical risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly.\nPreferred Qualifications\nThese qualifications are helpful, not required. We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every preferred qualification.\nExperience implementing, testing, or troubleshooting GPU Direct Storage or comparable direct accelerator-to-storage technologies.\nExperience designing or operating NVMe over Fabrics deployments using RoCEv2 or TCP.\nExperience with the Storage Performance Development Kit or other user-space storage frameworks.\nFamiliarity with high-performance parallel and distributed file systems such as Weka, VAST Data, Lustre, DAOS, DDN, or comparable platforms.\nKnowledge of Compute Express Link and its implications for future memory and storage tiering in AI servers.\nUnited States Benefits Overview\nGraphcore offers compensation and benefits designed to support employees' health, financial well-being, work-life needs, and professional growth. Benefits and programs for eligible U.S. employees may include:\nMedical, dental, and vision coverage, with options that may extend to eligible dependents.\nMental health, wellness, and employee assistance resources.\nRetirement savings benefits and company contributions where applicable.\nPaid vacation, sick time, company holidays, and parental or family leave in accordance with applicable plans and policies.\nLife insurance and short-term or long-term disability coverage.\nFlexible working hours and hybrid working arrangements where compatible with the role and team requirements.\nProfessional development resources, learning programs, office amenities, and team-led activities.\nBenefits vary by work location, employment status, scheduled hours, and plan eligibility and are subject to the terms of the applicable plans and company policies. This overview is not a contract or guarantee of benefits.\nEqual Opportunity and Accommodations\nGraphcore is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.\nGraphcore is committed to an inclusive and accessible hiring process. 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