{"id":1216966,"url":"https://alion.io/job/graphcore-staff-system-tests-diagnostics-engineer-3","title":"Staff System Tests & Diagnostics Engineer","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":"B","score":73,"open_postings":19,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.895,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":69,"computed_at":"2026-09-26T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"DevOps","role_family":"DevOps","seniority":"staff","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Austin, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":134000,"max_usd":261000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":304},"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"C++","optional":false},{"name":"Linux","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-24T20:22:19Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-24","last_verified_at":"2026-09-27T00:02:13Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"About us\nGraphcore is one of the world’s leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute.\nIt is developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure that will unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs and power the widespread adoption of AI solutions across every industry.\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. Together, they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone.\nResponsibilities and Duties\nWe are seeking a highly skilledSystem Tests & Diagnostics Engineer to develop, extend, and integrate specialized silicon validation and diagnostics tools for next-generation AI SoCs.\nUnlike traditional validation roles focused on executing test plans, this position is responsible for developing the diagnostic software and stress tools that expose hardware failures, characterize silicon behavior, and improve platform observability throughout bring-up and validation.\nYou will work closely with Arm engineers to understand and extend existing diagnostics technologies while developing Graphcore-specific capabilities for future AI hardware.\n\nRole Summary\nYou will work with existing Arm-developed diagnostics technologies and extend them to support Graphcore's next-generation AI silicon.\nYou will be responsible for developing system-level diagnostics and stress tools that integrate with an existing framework to detect data integrity, computational correctness, performance, and reliability issues across CPUs, AI accelerators, memory, storage, PCIe, firmware, BMC, and other platform components. Examples include silent data corruption (SDC) tests, power transient stress tools, and platform diagnostics, with opportunities to develop new diagnostics as future hardware capabilities evolve.\nThis role requires close collaboration with hardware architects, firmware engineers, validation engineers, and diagnostics teams to understand new hardware capabilities and translate them into reusable diagnostic software.\nResponsibilities\nLearn and extend existing Arm diagnostics tools to support Graphcore’s AI platform.\nDevelop specialized diagnostics and stress-testing software for CPU, memory, interconnect, PCIe, and other system components.\nBuild reusable validation utilities that integrate into the existing validation framework.\nDevelop tools that expose intermittent hardware failures including silent data corruption, timing-related issues, and hardware instability.\nDesign configurable diagnostic applications supporting multiple silicon revisions, platforms, and execution environments.\nDevelop automation for executing diagnostics across server and rack-scale validation environments.\nDesign configuration-driven diagnostics supporting scalable parameterization and workload variation.\nCollaborate with hardware architects to understand new hardware capabilities and identify missing diagnostics.\nWork closely with firmware and validation teams to improve hardware observability.\nDebug low-level hardware, firmware, operating system, and driver interactions.\nAnalyze diagnostic output and improve fault isolation methodologies.\nDevelop software that enables engineers to reproduce and investigate difficult hardware failures.\nContribute reusable libraries and utilities that improve engineering productivity across multiple validation teams.\nCandidate Profile\nEssential\nBachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline.\n10+ years of experience developing hardware diagnostics, system validation software, firmware validation tools, or low-level systems software.\nStrong software development skills in Python and C/C++.\nStrong Linux systems experience.\nStrong understanding of modern server platform architecture, including how CPU, memory, PCIe, storage, networking, firmware, operating system, and device drivers interact within a complete system.\nExperience debugging hardware/software interactions across multiple layers of the platform.\nExperience developing diagnostics, stress testing, or hardware validation software.\nExperience with server platforms, embedded systems, or SoC validation.\nStrong analytical and debugging skills.\nExperience collaborating across hardware, firmware, software, and validation teams.\nExcellent communication and problem-solving skills.\nDesirable:\nPreferred Qualifications\nArm-based server platforms\nAI accelerators or high-performance computing systems\nSilent Data Corruption (SDC) testing\nHardware stress testing\nPower transient analysis\nHardware fault injection methodologies\nFirmware validation\nSilicon bring-up\nPerformance characterization\nHardware telemetry and observability\nBMC firmware or server management\nRAS (Reliability, Availability, Serviceability) technologies\nValidate across subsystems:\nCPU scaling and cache behavior\nMemory (DDR/HBM) bandwidth, latency, and NUMA effects\nInterconnect contention under multi-core load\nPCIe/I-O throughput, latency, and multi-device scenarios\nHigh-speed I/O validation\nWhat Success Looks Like\nSuccessful candidates will:\nExtend existing diagnostics technologies to support new Graphcore hardware.\nDevelop new diagnostics tools for emerging hardware capabilities.\nBuild reusable software components that integrate seamlessly with the existing validation framework.\nImprove hardware observability and root-cause isolation.\nDetect and characterize intermittent hardware failures that traditional validation techniques cannot expose.\nDeliver configurable diagnostics that scale across multiple platforms and silicon revisions.\nWork effectively across hardware, firmware, validation, and diagnostics teams to continuously improve platform quality.\n\nWhy Join Graphcore?\nThis role provides a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of hardware architecture, diagnostics, and software engineering while helping define how next-generation AI systems are validated.\nRather than maintaining an existing validation framework, you will develop the specialized diagnostics and stress tools that make that framework valuable. Your work will directly influence hardware quality, silicon bring-up, and long-term platform reliability for future AI infrastructure.\n\nUSA Benefits\n\nIn addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working and a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, wellbeing and financial future. Our benefits include medical, dental and vision coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), disability and life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, commuter benefits, wellness services and an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP). We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we're committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. 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