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The company designs advanced semiconductors and data centre hardware that provide the specialised processing power needed to drive AI innovation, while delivering the efficiency required to support its broader adoption. \nAs part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. We are opening a new AI Engineering Campus in Austin which will play a central role in Graphcore's work building the future of AI computing. \nWe are looking to hire Post-Silicon Validation Engineers to join our collaborative, cross-functional development team validating cutting edge, high performance AI chips and platforms. You will play a critical role in supporting new product introductions and post-silicon validation. Working within the Post-Silicon Validation team, you will be involved with bringing first silicon to life, functionally validating it and working closely with many other teams to help it become a fully characterised and working product, reporting project status/progress to program management on a regular basis. You will have the opportunity to, and be responsible for, leading, mentoring, and providing technical guidance to other engineering team members. In this role, you can leverage your experience and industry knowledge to architect and drive implementation of continuous improvements to test infrastructure and processes. \nThe Post-Silicon Validation team sits within the Architecture and Validation team, we are responsible for validation of new silicon when it returns from manufacture, enabling and supporting the production SW and FW teams to bring up their software and also supporting the Silicon Characterisation team. \nResponsibilities and Duties \nPlan, design, develop and debug silicon validation tests in bare metal C/C++ on FPGA/Emulator prior to first silicon \nDeploy silicon validation tests on first silicon and debugging them \nDevelop automated test framework and regression test suites in Python to optimize validation efficiency \nCollaborate closely with engineers from many other disciplines on a variety of topics \nWork with Validation and Production Test engineering peers to implement best practices and continuous improvements to test methodologies \nAnalyse test results, identify and debug failures/defects \nContribute to shared test and validation infrastructure \nProvide feedback to architects \nEssential skills: \nStrong experience in Bare metal / embedded C/C++ \nGood knowledge of digital ASICs\nBe highly motivated, a self starter, and a team player \nAbility to work across teams and programming languages to find root causes of deep and complex issues \nExperience of the post-silicon validation process applied in digital ASIC environments \nPython, Linux \nExcellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with others to solve problems\nExcellent problem-solving, analytical & diagnostic skills \nDesirable skills: \nDriver level experience with one or more of the following is highly desirable: PCIe \nEthernet \nMemory technologies (LPDDR, DDR, HBM, …) \nOther peripherals such as I2C, I3C, SPI, … \n\nGood knowledge of mixed-signal building blocks such as PLLs, high speed PHYs and IC control/communication protocols is highly desirable\nExperience of Arm CPUs, System IPand debug tools\nExperience of AMBA protocols\nUnderstanding of ML applications and their workloads\nExperience in Characterization, Failure Analysis, Test Development, Statistical analysis, and Customer Support \nBenefits:\nIn addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers a competitive benefits package. 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