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You will combine hands-on software development with Principal-level technical leadership, creating common frameworks that help engineering teams run reliable, repeatable tests across development, system validation, and production environments.\nWorking within Test Software and Automation, you will translate hardware requirements into maintainable test solutions, improve the speed and quality of validation, and provide clear technical direction across hardware, firmware, systems, product, and manufacturing teams.\nWhat You Will Do\nOwn the architecture and technical roadmap for shared test automation frameworks used in hardware bring-up, qualification, regression testing, and production validation.\nDesign and implement framework components, interfaces, configuration models, and reusable libraries that support multiple hardware platforms and test environments.\nTranslate hardware specifications, validation plans, and quality requirements into scalable automated test suites with clear coverage and traceability.\nEstablish engineering standards for framework reliability, maintainability, versioning, documentation, observability, and test-result integrity.\nIntegrate automated testing with continuous integration and delivery pipelines, source control, lab infrastructure, and test orchestration systems.\nDevelop tools and data pipelines that collect, process, analyze, and visualize test results so teams can identify failures, trends, and quality risks.\nLead complex debugging across test software, operating systems, firmware, hardware, and lab environments, and drive issues to clear technical resolution.\nImprove test execution time, reproducibility, resource use, and validation methods across development and production workflows.\nPartner with hardware, firmware, systems, product, quality, and manufacturing teams to align test coverage with product and business requirements.\nProvide technical guidance, conduct design and code reviews, mentor engineers, and communicate status, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations to engineering leaders.\nWhat You Will Bring\nA bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nSubstantial professional experience building software for test automation, validation infrastructure, developer tooling, or related systems, including technical leadership at Principal, Staff, or Lead Engineer scope.\nStrong software development skills in Python and proficiency with Bash or comparable scripting languages.\nDemonstrated success designing modular, scalable, and maintainable frameworks, including stable interfaces, reusable components, configuration management, and automated verification.\nExperience with Linux or Unix environments, Git-based development, continuous integration and delivery pipelines, and software engineering practices for production-quality tools.\nExperience working at the boundary between software and hardware, including hardware test, system validation, or embedded platform environments.\nStrong debugging and systems-thinking skills, with the ability to isolate problems across software, firmware, hardware, networks, and lab infrastructure.\nAbility to turn technical specifications and quality goals into measurable coverage, repeatable tests, and actionable results.\nProven ability to influence cross-functional technical decisions, mentor engineers, and communicate clearly with both technical teams and engineering leadership.\nPreferred Qualifications\nThese qualifications are helpful, not required. We encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every preferred qualification.\nExperience with test orchestration, lab management, hardware farms, scheduling systems, or distributed automation infrastructure.\nBackground in AI hardware, server platforms, embedded systems, baseboard management controllers, or related low-level environments.\nExperience integrating automated tests with manufacturing, deployment, or product-release workflows.\nExperience developing test-data pipelines, dashboards, or visualization tools for engineering analysis and quality reporting.\nFamiliarity with containerized environments, remote execution, or infrastructure-as-code practices used to manage test systems.\nUnited States Benefits Overview\nGraphcore offers compensation and benefits designed to support employees' health, financial well-being, work-life needs, and professional growth. 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