Job Overview:
Graphcore is a globally recognised leader in Artificial Intelligence computing systems. 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.
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. 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.
What you could be doing as a Program Planning and Operations Intern?
You’ll work with program managers and engineering leads to organize and track activities across design, construction, and deployment phases. You may:
- Build and maintain integrated project schedules using Smartsheet and other tools.
- Support milestone tracking, risk reviews, and weekly program reporting.
- Assist in coordinating lab readiness plans, equipment delivery timelines, and vendor dependencies.
- Analyze operational data and propose process improvements for scheduling or execution.
- This internship gives you hands-on exposure to the operations behind large-scale engineering programs, from planning through delivery.
We are looking for individuals who:
Are currently enrolled and studying towards a Project Management, Business Operations, Industrial Engineering Degree (Bachelors, Masters or PhD students welcome). Candidates with alternative degrees will also be considered if they have relevant experience.
Qualities that will help your application stand out:
- Have strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Are comfortable working with data and schedules in Excel or Smartsheet.
- Enjoy collaboration, problem-solving, and fast-moving environments.
- Foundational knowledge of IT systems, servers, or datacenter infrastructure.
- Understanding of hardware or software deployment lifecycles.
- Interest or coursework in networking, systems administration, or hardware integration.
- Ability to communicate with technical teams about infrastructure readiness, hardware installs, or operational dependencies
Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers a competitive benefits package. 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. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments.
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What We Do
Graphcore has created a new processor, the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), specifically designed for artificial intelligence. The IPU’s unique architecture means developers can run current machine learning models orders of magnitude faster. More importantly, it lets AI researchers undertake entirely new types of work, not possible using current technologies, to drive the next great breakthroughs in general machine intelligence.
Our next generation 3D Wafer-on-Wafer Bow IPU systems are helping AI innovators worldwide to build better, more innovative AI solutions, whether their focus is on language and vision, exploring graph neural networks and LSTMs or creating something entirely new.
We believe our IPU technology will become the worldwide standard for artificial intelligence compute. The performance of Graphcore’s IPU is going to be transformative across all industries and sectors whether you are a medical researcher, roboticist or building autonomous cars.
Our team is at the forefront of the artificial intelligence revolution, enabling innovators from all industries and sectors to expand human potential with technology. What we do, really makes a difference.
We're always interested in hearing from exceptional people to join our team.
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