Post Silicon Validation Engineer

About Graphcore

Graphcore is one of the world’s leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute.  

It 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.  

As 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.  

Graphcore’s teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives. A melting pot of AI research specialists, silicon designers, software engineers and systems architects, Graphcore enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation.  

The Role:

We 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. 

The 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.  

Responsibilities and Duties 

• Plan, design, develop and debug silicon validation tests in bare metal C/C++ on FPGA/Emulator prior to first silicon 
• Deploy silicon validation tests on first silicon and debugging them 
• Develop automated test framework and regression test suites in Python to optimize validation efficiency 
• Collaborate closely with engineers from many other disciplines on a variety of topics 
• Work with Validation and Production Test engineering peers to implement best practices and continuous improvements to test methodologies 
• Analyse test results, identify and debug failures/defects 
• Contribute to shared test and validation infrastructure 
• Provide feedback to architects 

Essential skills: 

• Strong experience in Bare metal / embedded C/C++ 
• Good knowledge of digital ASICs
• Be highly motivated, a self starter, and a team player  
• Ability to work across teams and programming languages to find root causes of deep and complex issues 
• Experience of the post-silicon validation process applied in digital ASIC environments 
• Python, Linux 
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with others to solve problems
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical & diagnostic skills
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