About Graphcore
How often do you get the chance to build a technology that transforms the future of humanity?
Graphcore products have set the standard in made-for-AI compute hardware and software, gaining global attention and industry acclaim. Now we are developing the next generation of artificial intelligence compute with systems that will allow AI researchers to develop more advanced models, help scientists unlock exciting new discoveries, and power companies around the world as they put AI at the heart of their business.
Graphcore recently joined SoftBank Group – bringing large and ongoing investment from one of the world’s leading backers of innovative AI companies.
Job Summary
We are looking for a Technical Project Manager with a strong software development background to work with the software engineering teams, product teams to drive and communicate internal developments which support strategic projects and programmes. You will be working with highly technical engineering leads and Product Management.
You will have a demonstrable strong technical background which is relevant to stack development ideally with some experience in AI or parallel compute systems. You may have been working previously as an engineering lead, technical product owner or technical project manager.
About the Software Programme Team
The Software Programme and Project team sits within Engineering. We are responsible for the planning and delivery of the software stack. Ensuring that a quality software stack is delivered against the timeline and meets the requirements of the wider organisation and customers.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Coordinate complex System Software projects with inputs from both internal core technology requirements and incoming customer product features
- Work with Product Management and development teams to ensure that we have a well-managed, ranked backlog
- Work with Release Management and Engineering teams to pull together timelines
- Understand the technical aspects of the software so that you can contribute meaningfully to priority discussions
- Help coach the teams with aspects of agile best practice and work with all stakeholders in running a SAFe Agile (like) process
- Provide clear and concise forecasting and reporting of progress towards delivery. Call out issues, risks and drive decisions to be made by Engineering and Product teams.
- Monitor and track dependencies for both internal and external work, communicating any near-term inputs
- Contribute to new process development, roll-out process improvements, and support the achievement of delivery goals for the business
Candidate Profile
Essential:
- Minimum 5 years software engineering experience post graduation
- Track record of working with Agile project development practices, for example: SCRUM, SAFe
- Excellent communication, presentation, and relationship management skills at all levels of the company
- Experience working with tracking and task management tools
- An ability to work independently without daily oversight in projects that can rapidly evolve and change
- Solid analytical skills, and the ability to clearly communicate requirements at different levels
- An understanding of dependencies, priorities, risks, issues, impacts and constraints
- A proven track record of delivering technical output, perhaps as an individual contributor, manager or project manager
- Minimum is a Bachelor's degree in a relevant subject
Desirable:
- Background in HPC, AI or parallel computing systems preferred
- Worked with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence)
- Experience working with satellite teams
Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working, a generous annual leave policy, private medical insurance and health cash plan, a dental plan, pension (matched up to 5%), life assurance and income protection. We have a generous parental leave policy and an employee assistance programme (which includes health, mental wellbeing, and bereavement support). We offer a range of healthy food and snacks at our central Bristol office and have our own barista bar! 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
Top Skills
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.
