Principal Product Engineer

About Graphcore

At Graphcore, we’re building the future of AI compute.We’re a team of semiconductor, software and AI experts, with deep experience in creating the complete AI compute stack - from silicon and software to infrastructure at datacenter scale.As part of the SoftBank Group, backed by significant long-term investment, we are delivering key technology into the fast-growing SoftBank AI ecosystem.To meet the vast and exciting AI opportunity, Graphcore is expanding its teams around the world.We are bringing together the brightest minds to solve the toughest problems, in a place where everyone has the opportunity to make an impact on the company, our products and the future of artificial intelligence.

Job Summary   

As Principal Product Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring that Graphcore products are manufactured with optimised yield, quality and cost, throughout the product lifecycle. You will work closely with OSATs, test engineering, manufacturing and quality teams to release new products and sustain high volume production. 

This is a highly technical role requiring deep expertise in semiconductor product engineering, manufacturing analytics, and system-level test and manufacturing processes. You will provide technical leadership across manufacturing operations, helping define best practices, solve complex yield and quality challenges, and improve manufacturing efficiency and product reliability. 

 

The Team 

The role will be as part of the Product Test and Diagnosis team, which is part of the Graphcore Manufacturing Operations department and has members in Bristol, Cambridge, India, US and Taiwan. The team is responsible for definition, development, and execution of an end-to-end test strategy spanning silicon, board-level assemblies, server blades, and rack-scale systems. Testing is performed across the full product lifecycle, including manufacturing, and deployed field environments. 

 

Responsibilities and Duties 

• Drive yield, quality and cost optimisation across the product lifecycle, including chip manufacturing, test, PCBA and system level manufacturing 

• Work closely with test engineering to define requirements for coverage, reporting and datalog formats from both ATE and system level electrical test  

• Own analytics for SMT manufacturing processes, including SPI/AOI/AXI/ICT etc 

• Own analytics for board and system level testing, including boundary scan and functional testing at board/blade/rack level 

• Work with technology and manufacturing specialists to manage low yield events in production and drive overall yield improvement 

• Support RMA analysis and reliability/qualification activities 

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