About Graphcore

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.

Job Summary

As a researcher at Graphcore, you will contribute to the advancement of AI research, investigating new ideas that push the limits on important AI/ML problems. Specialised hardware has been the key driver of the progress of AI over the last decade, and we believe that hardware-aware AI algorithms and AI-aware hardware developments will continue to be critical to advancing this exciting field. As such, we’re looking for candidates who are keen scientists and engineers, with the theoretical and practical skills needed for impactful AI research.

We are looking for researchers with experience of AI in low-power, edge and embodied scenarios such as robotics, autonomous driving and augmented/virtual reality. We are interested in the training and deployment of multimodal AI models in these contexts, covering areas such as world models, real-time computer vision, generating and reasoning over audio/video streams.

The Team

Graphcore Research participates in both fundamental and applied research, to characterise the computational requirements of machine intelligence and to demonstrate how hardware can drive the next generation of innovative AI models. We publish at leading AI/ML conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR) as well as specialist workshops, and collaborate with other research teams and organisations across the world.

We pride ourselves on being a supportive and collaborative team, where we organise around our individual research interests to solve problems together in domains such as efficient compute, model scaling and distributed training and inference of AI models for multiple modalities and applications, including for sequence- and graph-based data. We’re based across London, Cambridge and Bristol, with projects and discussions that involve all our locations.

Perhaps the best way to get an idea of what we’re all about is to read one of our papers or an article on our blog. If you’re excited to work at the cutting edge of AI supported by new hardware and want to develop your skills in this area, we’d love to hear from you!

Responsibilities and Duties

• Generate AI/ML ideas, design experiments, implement them & evaluate results.
• Prepare, submit & present your work to AI conferences and workshops.
• Collaborate with researchers, silicon and software engineers at Graphcore to help define, build and test Graphcore’s next generation of AI hardware.

About you:

Essential:

• Master’s, PhD or equivalent experience in a technical discipline (e.g., Maths, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering).
• Experience in embodied AI, world models or robotics.
• Python programming in a modern deep learning framework, e.g. PyTorch or JAX.
• Familiar with deep learning fundamentals: models, optimisation, evaluation and scaling.
• Capable of designing, executing and reporting from ML experiments.
• Mathematics skills to support the above: calculus, probability theory and linear algebra.
• Experience submitting papers to international scientific conferences or workshops.

Desirable:

• Lower-level programming for hardware efficiency, e.g. C++/CUDA/Triton.
• Practical familiarity with hardware capabilities for deep learning – threads, caches, vector & matrix engines, data dependencies, bus widths and throttling.
• Practical familiarity with software stacks for deep learning – compilation, kernel fusion, XLA/ATen ops, streams, and asynchronous execution.
• Conference or workshop submissions in the fields of embodied AI, world models, or robotics.

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.

Applicants for this position must hold the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately at this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or support for visa applications

About Graphcore 

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.

Job Summary   

We are looking for a Technical Product Manager to define and drive the product vision, roadmap, and feature delivery across a complex, multi-team software organisation. You will operate at the intersection of customer value, business strategy, and engineering execution—owning the “what” and “why” of the product while working closely with Product Owners, Engineering, Architecture, and Programme leadership to ensure successful delivery. 

The Team 

The software teams this role supports operate from bare metal silicon all the way to the top of the Machine learning tools stack. Our organisation is structured around component-based engineering teams within the engineering function, and you will play a key role in aligning these teams through a coherent product strategy, coordinated planning, and clear prioritisation. You will be accountable for ensuring that product direction translates into actionable work across teams, enabling both short-term delivery and long-term strategic planning. 

Responsibilities and Duties 

Product strategy and vision:

• Define and own the strategy for the Software area you represent, aligning it with the wider business and product strategy. 

• Act as the voice of the customer(s)/stakeholder(s) for the area you represent, balancing business priorities, and technical constraints. 
• Communicate product strategy clearly to engineering teams, stakeholders, and leadership. 

Feature planning and backlog ownership:

• Own the feature backlog for the Software area you represent, ensuring features are well-defined, prioritised, and aligned to outcomes. 

• Build and evolve the backlog to clearly reflect product strategy and direction. 

• Drive creation and maintenance of the long-term planning views, taking the backlog data to show projected dates and resource needs. 

• Collaborate with Technical Product Owners to refine and break down features into component-level work. 

• Ensure clear traceability from product goals → features → team backlogs.
• Make trade-off decisions on scope, sequencing, and priorities. 

Program Increment (PI) planning and coordination:

• Coordinate PI planning preparation and ceremonies, working with Technical Product Owners, Programme Management, and Agile leadership. 

• Ensure features are sufficiently refined and ready ahead of planning events.

• Align priorities and scope across component teams to enable effective planning. 
• Support the definition of clear objectives and outcomes for each planning increment. 

Cross-team coordination and alignment:

• Coordinate multiple Technical Product Owners to ensure alignment across component teams.

• Work closely with Engineering, Architecture, and Programme roles to manage dependencies and sequencing. 
• Ensure product delivery remains coherent across teams contributing to the same features.

Stakeholder engagement:

• Act as the primary interface between business stakeholders and engineering.
• Communicate roadmap progress, risks, and changes to stakeholders and customers. 

Feedback and continuous improvement: 

• Gather feedback from teams on feasibility, risks, and delivery challenges.

• Use insights from delivery (metrics, demos, retrospectives) to refine roadmap and priorities. 

• Continuously improve product planning and backlog practices across teams.

Candidate Profile 

Essential:  

Product leadership and ownership:

• Proven experience owning product vision and roadmap in a complex software environment.

• Strong ability to make prioritisation and trade-off decisions with incomplete information.

• Comfortable being both accountable and hands-on in shaping product direction.

 Collaboration and influence:

• Experience working across multiple engineering teams and stakeholders.

• Ability to align teams without direct authority.

• Strong communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.

Delivery and planning understanding:

• Solid understanding of agile development practices, including backlog management, sprint planning, and PI planning.

• Experience coordinating planning at scale across multiple teams.

• Ability to connect long-term strategy with short-term delivery realities.

Customer and value focus: 

• Strong communicator with the ability to translate needs into actionable product direction.
• Focus on outcomes over output, with an understanding of how to measure value delivery. 

Technical awareness:

• Comfortable working with engineering teams and understanding technical trade-offs.
• Ability to engage in discussions on architecture, feasibility, and implementation constraints. 

Desirable:

• Degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline.

• Certified Product Owner / Product Manager (e.g. Scrum.org PSPO, Pragmatic Institute, SAFe POPM) 

• Experience working in hardware/software integrated environments.

• Familiarity with high-performance computing, AI/ML systems, or similar domains.

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.

Applicants for this position must hold the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately at this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or support for visa applications.

About us 

Graphcore 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 enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation. 

Job Summary

The System Software group comprises of the Firmware team, the Drivers and Utilities team and, the System QA team. We are responsible for the enablement of all silicon and hardware platforms produced by our colleagues at Graphcore. Our aim is to produce high quality software and APIs that enable the wider software team to utilise our products efficiently and effectively. The Firmware and Drivers teams form the foundation of the Graphcore software stack, upon which all our customer-facing systems are built and run. 

The Team

The Drivers and Utilities team develop kernel and user space software to allow our customers to get maximum performance and utility from our unique hardware. We work closely with the software engineering team developing our Poplar SDK to support machine learning applications and with silicon and hardware engineers to fully exploit the capabilities of our Graphcore IPU solution.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Write code to Graphcore standards
• Ensure all code written has the appropriate unit tests created for it
• Participate in code reviews individually and as part of the team
• Participate in Scrum ceremonies
• Manually test code written by self and others
• Maintain our Continuous Integration system and fix when broken
• Contribute to and take part in technical design discussions with team members

Candidate Profile

Essential

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Maths, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related field.
• Previous experience with low-level software including embedded or device drivers. This could be a personal or university project
• Basic understanding of electronics including the ability to read and understand schematics and datasheets
• Introductory experience with any of the following languages: C, C++, Python
• Awareness of Continuous Integration systems such as Jenkins
• Experience using Git for managing source code, raising and reviewing Pull Requests, merging branches

Desirable

• Previously experience with hardware, perhaps with PCI cards or PC motherboards
• Has contributed to open-source projects
• Has designed and built own hardware and controlled it from a host (e.g. Linux-based system)
• Has an interest in how hardware and software platforms interact

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. 

About us 

Graphcore 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 enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation. 

Job Summary

Reporting to the Firmware Manager, the Graduate Firmware Engineer will contribute to the design, development and delivery of the firmware that powers our next generation products. They are expected to take part in technical discussions across multiple teams within Graphcore and our partners.

The Team

The firmware team writes the software that ensures the full and complete bootup of Graphcore Hardware and Silicon. We design and maintain interfaces to allow our Drivers software to interact with Graphcore Silicon. We present telemetry and monitoring data for use by the host system via the SMBus interface, and by data centre operatives via the BMC.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Support the design, development and delivery of firmware code to the expected Graphcore standards
• Participate in technical design discussions within the Firmware team, other teams within Graphcore and our partners
• Participate in code reviews individually and as part of the team
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and actively improve Agile best practices within the team
• Contribute to and take part in in-depth technical design discussions with team members, bringing new ideas and innovative techniques to the team where possible
• Support engineers within the team and other teams to investigate and resolve firmware-related problems with our products

Candidate Profile

Essential:

• Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Maths, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related field
• Understanding of Continuous Integration, build systems and software packaging best practices
• Introductory experience with C or Python

Desirable

• Experience of designing and implementing real-time embedded software, and subsequent verification
• Proven ability to understand, build and debug complex embedded platforms
• A good understanding of server architecture and performance in a datacentre environment
• Experience of device drivers and OS Kernel development
• A good understanding of server security from both a hardware and software perspective, and how this applies to the server firmware

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. 

About us 

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.

Job Summary

As a Graduate Machine Learning Engineer in the Applied AI team at Graphcore, you will contribute to advancing AI technology by developing and optimising AI models tailored to our specialised hardware. Working closely with the Software development and Research teams, you will play a critical role in identifying opportunities to innovate and differentiate Graphcore’s technology. This role is ideal for someone who loves working hands-on with models, has a strong foundation in ML fundamentals, and wants to push the boundaries of AI performance in real-world systems. 

The Team

The Applied AI team’s role is to understand the latest AI models, applications, and software to ensure that Graphcore’s technology works seamlessly with the AI ecosystem. We build reference applications, contribute to key software libraries e.g. optimising kernels for efficiency on our hardware, and collaborate with the Research team to develop and publish novel ideas in domains such as efficient compute, model scaling and distributed training and inference of AI models for different modalities and applications. 

Responsibilities and Duties

• Implement state-of-the-art machine learning models and optimise them for performance and accuracy, scaling to 1000s of accelerators. 
• Evaluate new software releases, provide feedback to software engineering teams, make necessary code fixes, and conduct code reviews. 
• Benchmark models and key model components to identify performance bottlenecks and improve model efficiency. 
• Design and conduct experiments on novel AI methods, analyse and report results clearly. 
• Collaborate with Research, Software, and Product teams to define, build, and test Graphcore’s next generation of AI hardware. 
• Stay current with AI research and actively engage with the broader AI and open-source community. 

Candidate Profile 

Essential:

• Bachelor’s/Master's degree in Machine Learning, Computer Science, Maths, Data Science, or related field. 
• Proficiency in deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch/JAX and strong software development skills. 
• Solid understanding of deep learning fundamentals — architectures, optimisation, evaluation, and scaling. 
• Capable of designing, executing and reporting from ML experiments. 
• Comfortable working in a fast-moving, occasionally ambiguous environment. 
• Enjoy cross-functional work collaborating with other teams. 

Desirable:

Experience in one or more of: 

• Development of deep learning models including large generative models for language, vision and other modalities; 
• Low-precision/efficient compute; 
• Distributed training of large-scale ML models. 
• Experience writing high performance C++/Triton/CUDA kernels. 
• Contributions to open-source projects or published research. 
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and ML infrastructure. 
• Enthusiasm for presenting, publishing, or engaging in the AI community. 

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. 

About us 

Graphcore 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 enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation. 

Job Summary

As a Graduate Engineer in the Analysis Tools Team you will work as part of a team developing profiling tools to help users optimise their applications on Graphcore hardware

The Team

The Analysis Tools team builds profiling tools to help users optimise their applications for Graphcore hardware. The team is responsible for collecting profiling information from the hardware and software, processing the profiling data and presenting it to the user via libraries, command line tools and graphical applications.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Design, development and testing of features for profiling.
• Fixing bugs and supporting customers.
• Knowledge sharing and collaborating with other engineers in the team.

Candidate Profile

Essential:

• Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Maths, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related field
• Experience in developing web applications using TypeScript and modern frameworks (ideally React).
• Problem-solving skills and ability to debug and resolve issues.
• Communication and collaboration skills.

Desirable:

• Experience using C++ or Rust.
• Experience with performance profiling tools.
• Experience with relational databases.
• Understanding of memory management, multithreading, and hardware utilisation.
• Knowledge of continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines and build tools

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. 

About us  

Graphcore 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 enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation.  

Job Summary 

Join our dynamic Software Infrastructure team and take a pivotal role in scaling and managing our infrastructure. You will develop essential tools and services that empower our broader software team. Your contributions will enhance the build, test, deployment, and productisation processes of our Machine Learning Software components. Work with our High-Performance Computing (HPC) AI platforms and gain invaluable experience in distributed systems. 

The Team 

The Software Infrastructure team provides critical platforms and services for software development teams across the business. Our responsibilities include managing the CI platform and services, build engineering, component integration, and packaging and release systems. We operate in squads, fostering a culture of service ownership and empowerment for our engineers. We focus on long-term engineering solutions and strive to eliminate toil wherever possible. 

Responsibilities and Duties 

• Supporting the delivery and ongoing maintenance of tools and services to support the software build and release process 

• Deploy and maintain services with Kubernetes and Docker 

• Supporting the ongoing management of our Cloud Infrastructure using tools such as Terraform 

• Working closely with development teams working on the ML Software Stack (SDK) 

Candidate Profile 

Essential: 

• Bachelor or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Maths, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related field 

• Knowledge of Python/Go/Java/C++ (or similar language) 

• Experience managing or developing in Linux environments 

• Understanding of CI/CD principles 

• Strong communication skills 

Desirable 

• Experience using Kubernetes (k8s) or OpenStack 

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g. Terraform/OpenTofu) 

• Experience with GitHub Actions 

• Experience with build tools (e.g. CMake) 

• Experience with Grafana 

• Familiarity with cloud services (e.g. AWS) 

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.  

About us 

Graphcore 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 enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation. 

Job Summary

The System Software group comprises of the Firmware team, the Drivers and Utilities team and, the System QA team. We are responsible for the enablement of all silicon and hardware platforms produced by our colleagues at Graphcore. Our aim is to produce high quality software and APIs that enable the wider software team to utilise our products efficiently and effectively. The Firmware and Drivers teams form the foundation of the Graphcore software stack, upon which all our customer-facing systems are built and run. 

The Team

The Drivers and Utilities team develop kernel and user space software to allow our customers to get maximum performance and utility from our unique hardware. We work closely with the software engineering team developing our Poplar SDK to support machine learning applications and with silicon and hardware engineers to fully exploit the capabilities of our Graphcore IPU solution.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Write code to Graphcore standards
• Ensure all code written has the appropriate unit tests created for it
• Participate in code reviews individually and as part of the team
• Participate in Scrum ceremonies
• Manually test code written by self and others
• Maintain our Continuous Integration system and fix when broken
• Contribute to and take part in technical design discussions with team members

Candidate Profile

Essential

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Maths, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related field.
• Previous experience with low-level software including embedded or device drivers. This could be a personal or university project
• Basic understanding of electronics including the ability to read and understand schematics and datasheets
• Introductory experience with any of the following languages: C, C++, Python
• Awareness of Continuous Integration systems such as Jenkins
• Experience using Git for managing source code, raising and reviewing Pull Requests, merging branches

Desirable

• Previously experience with hardware, perhaps with PCI cards or PC motherboards
• Has contributed to open-source projects
• Has designed and built own hardware and controlled it from a host (e.g. Linux-based system)
• Has an interest in how hardware and software platforms interact

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. 

About Us

Graphcore 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 enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation. 

Job Summary

We are looking for a Graduate Software Engineer to join a team pioneering the development of high-performance machine learning (ML) kernels for a new generation of AI hardware. 

In this role, you will contribute to building optimised compute kernels that support a wide range of ML operators—powering applications from convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to large language models (LLMs). 

You'll leverage low-level programming and hardware-aware optimisation techniques to extract maximum performance and efficiency from modern accelerators. This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of ML, numerical computing, and scalable systems.

The Team

This is an exciting opportunity to join an expanding team at Graphcore. The Kernel Engineering team is responsible for delivering high performance compute library to help customers gain the maximum performance from AI hardware.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Supporting the design and implementation of kernels for linear algebra and tensor ops (GEMM, batched GEMM, convolutions, reductions, elementwise and fused operations) in C++
• Profile and optimise for the next generation of AI hardware - threading, cache locality, memory layout, and kernel launch efficiency.
• Support performance and correctness - add microbenchmarks, regression tests, numerics validation
• Debug issues, resolve bugs and generally improve the quality and functionality of the product

About you

You are open-minded and collaborative with interests in performance optimisation and memory-efficient designs, and you are looking to join a team of experts.

You are comfortable to discuss technical tradeoffs, receive feedback and iterate on solutions and you are drawn to technically challenging problems and use analyticals reasoning to navigate unfamiliar domains.

Essential:

• Bachelor or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Maths, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related field
• Experirence in C/C++11.
• Familiarity with Python or scripting tools for automation and testing.
• Understanding of linear algebra, numerical methods, or scientific computing.
• Good problem-solving skills and ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Courseworks or past experience in using ML frameworks, parallel programming, or code optimisation.
• Exposure to math libraries such as MKL or OpenBLAS.
• Knowledge of performance analysis tools.

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.

About us 

Graphcore 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 enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation. 

Job Summary 

As a member of the Modelling team you will contribute to the planning, design, implementation and testing of software implementation of the upcoming AI hardware. You will also help other teams to integrate future versions of hardware and help them to scale out distributed modelling environments. You will report to modelling team manager. 

The Team

The Modelling team forms a part of larger frameworks group – working closely with framework engineers developing Graphcore’s cutting edge AI solution. The Modelling team is also working on the integration of modelling and profiling capabilities into the ML stack. 

Responsibilities and Duties

• Supporting the design, implementation, testing and documentation of the future hardware at the highest standard using C/C++/Python programming languages
• Participate in agile development – working as part of a scrum team to develop the right software at pace
• Communicate effectively and contribute regularly to technical discussions with your peers in software and hardware engineering, with architects and other stakeholders
• Hands-on during key product development phases involving close working with framework teams to enable fast time to market delivery

Candidate Profile 

Essential:

• Bachelor or Master's degree in Computer Science, Maths, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related field
• Good C++ knowledge
• Good understanding of lower-level software stack and interactions with the hardware layer
• Possess effective problem-solving skills, familiar with a full suite of debug and performance analysis tools and techniques
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, work well within a multinational team and with multinational customers. Excellent cultural awareness is essential.

Desirable:

• Previous hardware simulation or modelling experience.

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. 

About Us 

Graphcore 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 enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation.  

Job Summary 

Reporting to a Team Lead in the frameworks team you will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, optimising, maintaining and supporting the software required to ensure the machine learning accelerators that Graphcore develop enjoy first-class support in state-of-the-art machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch and Triton.  

This role sees you joining our PyTorch team, where you will be part of a SCRUM team working on delivering new features, optimise performance, reviewing code changes, writing technical documentation, working with upstream communities, maintaining the code base and supporting users.  

In this role you will closely collaborate with other engineers, both within the PyTorch team as well as other engineering teams. You will contribute to the delivery of complex, open-ended technical tasks and develop deep expertise in the PyTorch project. You understand the importance of managing code quality and code complexity and balancing this against the team’s goals and deadlines.  

The Team 

The Frameworks team ensures Graphcore hardware works seamlessly with the tools that ML engineers and researchers love – Pytorch, Triton and in future, Jax and TensorFlow. We’re a talented and diverse team of engineers and we foster a culture of collaboration, openness and learning. All our software teams follow agile working practices, and we care deeply about both ease-of-use as well as performance. We work closely work with other Graphcore teams as well as leading open-source communities.  

By joining us, you’ll join our exciting journey on the cutting edge of the machine learning industry. Your contributions will make a real difference – enabling machine learning engineers and researchers to unlock the full potential of Graphcore’s hardware.  

Responsibilities and Duties 

• Supporting the design and implementation of new features & maintaining and supporting existing features.  

• Developing and maintaining unit tests, component tests and integration tests.  

• Optimising the software stack to make it more performant for our users.  

• Managing code quality, code complexity and technical debt.  

• Contributing to documentation, including user manuals and tutorials.  

• Conducting code reviews.  

• Resolving regressions, performance issues and software defects.  

• Contribute to continuous improvements to improve ways of working.  

• Working with upstream open-source development teams.  

Candidate Profile  

Essential: 

• Bachelor or Master's in Computer Science, Maths, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related field  

• Experience of Python development.  

• At least one of:  

• Experience of compiler development.  

• Experience of using and/or development of ML Frameworks.  

• Experience in a computationally intensive engineering field.  

Desirable: 

• Demonstrable knowledge of AI/ML.  

• Understanding of computing architectures.  

• Experience of maintaining and supporting a complex code base.  

• Experience in profiling / optimising high performance code.  

• Experience of writing ML kernels.  

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.  

About Us 

Graphcore 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 enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation.  

Job Summary 

Reporting to a Team Lead in the frameworks team you will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, optimising, maintaining and supporting the software required to ensure the machine learning accelerators that Graphcore develop enjoy first-class support in using machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch and Triton.  

This role sees you joining our Triton team, where you will be part of a SCRUM team working on delivering new features, optimise performance, reviewing code changes, writing technical documentation, working with upstream communities, maintaining the code base and supporting users.  

The Team 

The Frameworks team ensures Graphcore hardware works seamlessly with the tools that ML engineers and researchers love – Pytorch, Triton, Jax and TensorFlow. We’re a talented and diverse team of engineers and we foster a culture of collaboration, openness and learning. All our software teams follow agile working practices, and we care deeply about both ease-of-use as well as performance. We work closely work with other Graphcore teams as well as leading open-source communities. 

By joining us, you’ll join our exciting journey on the cutting edge of the machine learning industry. Your contributions will make a real difference – enabling machine learning engineers and researchers to unlock the full potential of Graphcore’s hardware.  

Responsibilities and Duties 

• Supporting the design and implementation of new features & maintaining and supporting existing features. 

• Developing and maintaining unit tests, component tests and integration tests. 

• Optimising the software stack to make it more performant for our users. 

• Managing complex technical tasks with cross-team dependencies. 

• Managing code quality, code complexity and technical debt. 

• Contributing to documentation, including user manuals and tutorials. 

• Conducting code reviews. 

• Resolving regressions, performance issues and software defects. 

• Contribute to continuous improvements to improve ways of working. 

• Working with upstream open-source development teams. 

Candidate Profile 

Essential: 

• Bachelor or Master's degree in Computer Science, Maths, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related field 

• Hands-on experience with Python/C++ development. 

• Practical experience of compiler development. 

Desirable: 

• Demonstrable knowledge of AI/ML. 

• Understanding of computing architectures. 

• Experience of maintaining and supporting a complex code base. 

• Experience in profiling / optimising high performance code. 

• Experience of using and/or development of ML Frameworks. 

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.  

About us 

Graphcore 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 enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation. 

Job Summary

The System Software group comprises of the Firmware team, the Drivers and Utilities team and, the System QA team. We are responsible for the enablement of all silicon and hardware platforms produced by our colleagues at Graphcore. Our aim is to produce high quality software and APIs that enable the wider software team to utilise our products efficiently and effectively. The Firmware and Drivers teams form the foundation of the Graphcore software stack, upon which all our customer-facing systems are built and run. 

The Team

The Drivers and Utilities team develop kernel and user space software to allow our customers to get maximum performance and utility from our unique hardware. We work closely with the software engineering team developing our Poplar SDK to support machine learning applications and with silicon and hardware engineers to fully exploit the capabilities of our Graphcore IPU solution.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Write code to Graphcore standards
• Ensure all code written has the appropriate unit tests created for it
• Participate in code reviews individually and as part of the team
• Participate in Scrum ceremonies
• Manually test code written by self and others
• Maintain our Continuous Integration system and fix when broken
• Contribute to and take part in technical design discussions with team members

Candidate Profile

Essential

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Maths, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related field.
• Previous experience with low-level software including embedded or device drivers. This could be a personal or university project
• Basic understanding of electronics including the ability to read and understand schematics and datasheets
• Introductory experience with any of the following languages: C, C++, Python
• Awareness of Continuous Integration systems such as Jenkins
• Experience using Git for managing source code, raising and reviewing Pull Requests, merging branches

Desirable

• Previously experience with hardware, perhaps with PCI cards or PC motherboards
• Has contributed to open-source projects
• Has designed and built own hardware and controlled it from a host (e.g. Linux-based system)
• Has an interest in how hardware and software platforms interact

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. 

About us 

Graphcore 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 enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation. 

Job Summary

The System Software group comprises of the Firmware team, the Drivers and Utilities team and, the System QA team. We are responsible for the enablement of all silicon and hardware platforms produced by our colleagues at Graphcore. Our aim is to produce high quality software and APIs that enable the wider software team to utilise our products efficiently and effectively. The Firmware and Drivers teams form the foundation of the Graphcore software stack, upon which all our customer-facing systems are built and run. 

The Team

The Drivers and Utilities team develop kernel and user space software to allow our customers to get maximum performance and utility from our unique hardware. We work closely with the software engineering team developing our Poplar SDK to support machine learning applications and with silicon and hardware engineers to fully exploit the capabilities of our Graphcore IPU solution.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Write code to Graphcore standards
• Ensure all code written has the appropriate unit tests created for it
• Participate in code reviews individually and as part of the team
• Participate in Scrum ceremonies
• Manually test code written by self and others
• Maintain our Continuous Integration system and fix when broken
• Contribute to and take part in technical design discussions with team members

Candidate Profile

Essential

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Maths, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related field.
• Previous experience with low-level software including embedded or device drivers. This could be a personal or university project
• Basic understanding of electronics including the ability to read and understand schematics and datasheets
• Introductory experience with any of the following languages: C, C++, Python
• Awareness of Continuous Integration systems such as Jenkins
• Experience using Git for managing source code, raising and reviewing Pull Requests, merging branches

Desirable

• Previously experience with hardware, perhaps with PCI cards or PC motherboards
• Has contributed to open-source projects
• Has designed and built own hardware and controlled it from a host (e.g. Linux-based system)
• Has an interest in how hardware and software platforms interact

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. 

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.  

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

We're looking to hire for our Data side of our AI team at Speechify. This role is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. We are able to build high-quality datasets at petabyte-scale and low cost through a tight integration of infrastructure, engineering, and research work. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join us.

What You’ll Do

• Be scrappy to find new sources of audio data and bring it into our ingestion pipeline
• Operate and extend the cloud infrastructure for our ingestion pipeline, currently running on GCP and managed with Terraform.
• Collaborate closely with our Scientists to shift the cost/throughput/quality frontier, delivering richer data at bigger scale and lower cost to power our next-generation models.
• Collaborate with others on the AI Team and Speechify Leadership to craft the AI Team’s dataset roadmap to power Speechify’s next-generation consumer and enterprise products.

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of industry experience in software development.
• Proficiency with bash/Python scripting in Linux environments
• Proficiency in Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and professional experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (we use GCP)
• Experience with web crawlers, large-scale data processing workflows is a plus
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

What we offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
• A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
• An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
• Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
• Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
• Work in one of the fastest-growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

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Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.