Salary Range: PLN 260,400 - 352,200
Subject to alignment to the responsibilities and duties of the role
Make Graphcore’s observability platform dependable enough for the AI infrastructure it protects.
As a Senior QA Engineer in the Management & Observability team, you will validate Graphcore’s end-to-end telemetry platform. You will help ensure every metric, log, trace, dashboard, API and alert can be trusted at scale.
Your work will shape how quality is built into systems that monitor complex AI compute infrastructure. You will define test strategy, automate validation and expose issues before they reach production.
You will work across telemetry generation, collection, processing, storage, visualisation and alerting. You will build automated tests for distributed systems, production-like workloads and real operating conditions.
This role gives you ownership of quality in a platform where reliability, scale and engineering precision all matter.
The team and cultureYou will work closely with telemetry and observability engineers from design through release. Quality is built early, through shared technical judgement and clear feedback.
The team moves by testing real assumptions, not waiting for perfect plans. You will have space to speak up, challenge designs and improve how releases are assessed.
Decisions are driven by evidence, root-cause analysis and practical engineering trade-offs. You will help set the standards that make Graphcore’s observability systems production-ready.
What we’re looking for- Experience designing automated test frameworks for distributed or infrastructure systems
- Strong Python programming skills for functional, integration, system and regression testing
- Experience testing Linux-based, cloud-native or containerised environments using Kubernetes or Docker
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, API testing, networking and distributed system behaviour
- Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills for complex system-level issues
- Familiarity with observability platforms, telemetry pipelines or time-series data
While we have outlined a set of requirements, we value transferable skills and diverse experiences. If you meet most of our essential criteria, we encourage you to submit an application and showcase how your background makes you a strong candidate.
Benefits- Flexible working: Balance your work and personal life with greater flexibility
- Comprehensive healthcare and dental cover: Premium medical and dental insurance, with the option to extend cover to your family
- Phantom equity: Share in Graphcore’s success
- Fitness and wellbeing support: A fully funded Medicover gym card, giving you access to a wide range of gyms, fitness classes and leisure centres
- Financial protection: Death and disability insurance, providing financial security for you and your loved ones
- Retirement savings: Build your financial future, with a 4% employer contribution from Graphcore, alongside your own contributions
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP): Confidential advice and support for you and your family across a range of personal, financial and wellbeing matters
We welcome people from all backgrounds and experiences and are committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone can do their best work.
We’re an equal opportunity employer and recognise that everyone brings different strengths and perspectives. If you need any adjustments during the interview process, just let us know - we’re happy to support you.
SponsorshipApplicants must have the legal right to work in Poland. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or support visa applications for this role.
Join the Team at GraphcoreGraphcore 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 brings together deep expertise to solve complex problems and deliver meaningful progress in AI compute.
If you want to raise the quality bar for AI infrastructure observability, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now to be part of the journey.
Skills Required
- BSc or MSc in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
- 5-8 years of experience in Software QA, Test Automation or Software Engineering.
- Experience designing automated test frameworks for distributed systems.
- Experience testing cloud-native or infrastructure software running on Linux.
- Experience with Python programming.
- Experience building automated integration and system tests.
- Familiarity with CI/CD platforms and automated testing pipelines.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker and containerized environments.
- Understanding of distributed systems, networking and API testing.
- Experience validating REST and gRPC APIs.
- Strong debugging and root-cause analysis skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience testing observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ClickHouse, Kafka, Elastic Stack).
- Experience validating telemetry pipelines and large-scale time-series data.
- Experience with performance, scalability and resiliency testing.
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform or Ansible.
- Experience testing AI infrastructure, HPC platforms or cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with one additional programming language such as Go or C++.
- Knowledge of modern observability practices including metrics, logs and distributed tracing.
What the Team is Saying
Graphcore Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Private medical insurance, comprehensive dental/vision, a health cash plan, and mental wellbeing support are listed as standard, with day-one coverage and Spring Health/EAP support noted for the U.S. Life assurance and income protection add further protection for serious illness or injury.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Flexible working hours and “unlimited annual leave” are explicitly stated. U.S. materials also note flexible PTO and 11 paid holidays.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a U.K. pension match up to 5% and a U.S. 401(k) with a 100% company match up to 6% (with a year-end true-up). These provisions signal a meaningful employer contribution toward long-term savings.
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What We Do
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.
Why Work With Us
Our team is at the forefront of the machine intelligence revolution, enabling innovators from all industries to build AI-native products to expand human potential. What we do at Graphcore really makes a difference.
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