Staff Hardware System Test Engineer
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Job description
Staff Hardware System Test Engineer developing manufacturing test solutions for complex compute systems such as Host Processor Modules, server blades and multi-node racks. The role ensures AI hardware reaches customers with the expected quality and reliability.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · Bristol, Cambridge
What you'll do
- Develop manufacturing test solutions for complex compute systems
- Shape how hardware is tested across Host Processor Modules, server blades, and multi-node racks
- Develop test software, design test approaches, and solve challenging hardware issues
- Work closely with hardware, firmware, software, and manufacturing teams to improve test coverage and diagnose problems quickly
- Build tools, test content, and diagnostics that influence manufacturing efficiency and product quality
- Influence engineering decisions and raise technical standards across the organisation
What we're looking for
- Significant experience developing and deploying manufacturing test solutions for high-performance servers, accelerators (GPU-class), or comparable large-scale compute hardware
- Strong technical leadership as an individual contributor, with experience owning substantial technical workstreams and collaborating across multiple teams without direct line management responsibility
- Strong technical understanding across silicon, board, and system design sufficient to define effective manufacturing test coverage and lead complex debug/root-cause analysis
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with experience working with internal software/firmware/platform teams to enable testability and diagnosability
- Hands-on experience using Linux, OpenBMC, and vendor-specific test tools, diagnostics, and system-level utilities to test hardware in lab and manufacturing environments
- Strong software engineering skills with scripting and automation (e.g., Python, Bash, or similar), including building reliable test infrastructure and integrating heterogeneous test content
Nice to have
- Familiarity with rack-scale/multi-node systems, high-speed interconnects, and production qualification of complex assemblies
- Experience improving manufacturing KPIs (yield, test time, false fail reduction) through data-driven test optimisation and robust statistical/diagnostic approaches
- Knowledge of open-source tools commonly used for manufacturing test, system bring-up, and hardware diagnostics
- Experience designing testability/diagnosability features into products (e.g., telemetry, self-test hooks, debug interfaces) in partnership with design teams
Your team
Product Test and Diagnosis team
Owns the strategy for finding and diagnosing hardware defects throughout the product lifecycle, working across silicon, boards, servers, and rack-scale systems.
Benefits
- Unlimited annual leave
- Up to 5% matched pension
- Phantom equity – share in Graphcore's success
- True flexibility in how and where you work
- Office spaces designed for collaboration
- Free food and an on-site barista
- Health cash plan
- Income protection
- Life assurance
- Other benefits you can choose from (private medical insurance, dental plan etc)
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About Graphcore
Building the compute platform for the next generation of artificial intelligence
Graphcore is building the compute platform for the next generation of artificial intelligence. From advanced silicon to intelligent software, its technology is designed to unlock breakthroughs in AI and bring its benefits to every industry. As part of the SoftBank Group, it works alongside companies shaping the future of AI.
Mission
To help enable artificial superintelligence and ensure it delivers meaningful impact at a global scale
Key facts
- Part of the SoftBank Group
- Teams bring together AI researchers, chip designers, software engineers and systems experts
Partners & customers
What they value
- Take on big challenges with curiosity and focus
- Move quickly and decisively
- Take real ownership of our work
- Speak up to challenge ideas
- Step up to support each other and lead through action