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
The senior software test engineer is responsible for designing and delivering software validation and quality assurance solutions for the software group. This involves creating and executing tests, creating automation tools, identifying errors, and providing feedback to other teams – mainly software but sometimes hardware teams - that the final product meets the requirements of the product at the expected levels of quality, including reliability, accuracy and performance. As a senior team member, you are expected to engage with all stakeholders in the wider Software group, can be relied on to do due diligence, show technical leadership, support junior team members in acquiring new skills and write design documentation.
The Team
The software test team consists of highly talented software engineers with a diverse software background dedicated to automation. They test a complex product and software stack, work with machine learning frameworks and models, and are responsible for integration testing and release quality. The team handles large amounts of data and develops visualisation tools to extract meaning from that data.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Responsible for test design and development for projects within the Software team and machine learning frameworks.
- Responsible for maintenance and improvements of the Python based in-house automation framework and tools.
- Maintaining and enhancing continuous integration against simulations, emulations and physical hardware
- Working closely with all Software development teams supporting a culture of test driver development.
Candidate Profile
Essential:
- At least 10 years of software developing experience, of which 5 years have been in a test related role
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Experience in test automation in a CI/CD environment
- Possess excellent written and oral communication skills, be self-critical, can work both independently and have a strong sense of teamwork, enjoy finding issues and seeing it through to it being fixed in a software and hardware environment, you are dedicated to delivering high quality products.
Desirable:
- ISTQB (or equivalent) certifications
- Experience in hardware or chip level testing
- Exposure to machine learning frameworks, e.g. PyTorch, JAXX, Triton, …
- Experience with SQL, test data storage solutions and DB management
- Work experience with:
- Atlassian tools such as Jira and Confluence
- git (ideally through GitLab or GitHub)
- GitHub actions
- Some experience with people management
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.
