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We’re looking for an engineer who wants to own Bazel at scale and build the tooling that powers every part of Fractile, from ML models to kernel drivers to hardware simulation.This is a greenfield Bazel role in a fast-growing deep-tech company building a new class of ML hardware and software from first principles.
What you’ll work on:
Designing and owning Bazel rules and extensions
Scaling our monorepo as we grow across Python, C++, Rust, SystemVerilog and ML workloads
Creating reproducible, multi-language build pipelines
Optimising CI performance across large compute clusters
Defining the developer experience for every engineer at Fractile
Contributing upstream to Bazel rules we depend on
Why this role is unique?
No legacy — you’re building the Bazel ecosystem from scratch
Extreme variety — ML, compilers, kernel drivers, simulators, hardware verification
High impact — your work becomes the backbone of the entire engineering organisation
Deep collaboration with Simulation, Runtime, and Hardware teams
Real ownership — you shape how Fractile builds software
What we’re looking for:
5+ years in software or infrastructure engineering
3+ years with build systems
Strong experience with Bazel
Python scripting and automation
Experience with CI/CD for large-scale products
Bonus: ML pipelines, GitHub Actions, multi-language build systems, containers
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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
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
- Develop, own, and maintain tools and services to support AI research and engineering teams
- Deploy and maintain services with Kubernetes and Docker
- Manage our Cloud Infrastructure using tools such as Terraform
Candidate Profile
Essential:
- Knowledge of Python
- Familiarity with cloud services (e.g. AWS)
- Experience managing or developing in Linux environments
- Understanding of CI/CD principles
- Experience using Kubernetes (k8s)
- Experience of one of the following:
- maintaining machine learning applications.
- deploying ML orchestration tools (e.g. NV Ray, KFP, SkyPilot).
- managing ML accelerator hardware (e.g. DCGM).
Desirable
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g. Terraform/OpenTofu)
- Experience with GitHub Actions
- Experience with modern observability tooling (e.g. Prometheus)
- Experience with Grafana
- Knowledge of Go/Java/C++ (or similar language)
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
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Senior Software Infrastructure Engineer
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About Graphcore
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
- Develop, own, and maintain tools and services to support the software build and release process
- Deploy and maintain services with Kubernetes and Docker
- Manage our Cloud Infrastructure using tools such as Terraform
- Support the technical development of junior and graduate engineer
- Embody a strong engineering discipline for high reliability and minimal toil
Candidate Profile
Essential:
- Knowledge of Python/Go/C++ (or similar language)
- Experience deploying services in the cloud (AWS preferred)
- Deep understanding of Linux environments
- Native user of CI/CD for production deployments
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g. Terraform/OpenTofu)
Desirable
- Experience using Kubernetes (k8s) or OpenStack
- Experience with GitHub Actions
- Experience with build tools (e.g. CMake)
- Experience with modern observability tooling (e.g. Prometheus)
- Experience with Grafana
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
Ready to apply?
Apply to Graphcore
Senior Systems Engineer – Performance & Reliability
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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 decide whether entire racks of machines are good enough to enter production. Our team measures and evaluates large-scale Linux systems—from a single rack to data-centre scale. We don’t just run benchmarks; we determine whether a system behaves correctly, and whether it is reliable enough to be trusted.
The work spans designing workloads, building execution systems, and interpreting results. A measurement is only useful if it leads to a decision.
You won’t be confined to a narrow role. Some engineers here focus on infrastructure, others on workloads or analysis—but everyone contributes to understanding system behaviour at scale. You are free to specialise, but as a team we are responsible for leaving no gaps.
You might find yourself:
- Expanding measurement coverage from small clusters to full racks
- Designing workloads that expose system behaviour
- Building systems to run experiments across large clusters
- Interpreting results and defining what “good enough” looks like
This is not a pure infrastructure or data role. The work combines systems engineering, measurement, and judgement.
We’re looking for engineers who are comfortable working where the right answer isn’t obvious, and where careful measurement matters more than output volume.
Selection criteria:
Our engineers typically bring significant practical experience and sound engineering judgement. Depth in one area is valued, but the ability to work across boundaries is equally important.
Essential
- Strong software engineering experience, typically gained across multiple projects or systems over several years
- Experience working in Linux-based environments, ideally with distributed or high-performance systems
- Proficiency in Python
- Experience with automation and CI/CD systems (e.g. GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
- Ability to design, implement, and run experiments or tests that produce meaningful results
- Ability to interpret results and communicate findings clearly, with an emphasis on accuracy and usefulness to decision-making
- Comfortable working in areas where requirements are not fully defined and judgement is required
Desirable
- Experience working with large-scale or distributed systems (e.g. clusters, cloud platforms, HPC environments)
- Experience with performance, reliability, or systems-level testing/measurement
- Familiarity with pytest or similar frameworks for structured test/measurement execution
- Experience analysing system behaviour under load (compute, network, or ML workloads)
- Experience working with containerisation, orchestration, or provisioning systems (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack)
- Proficiency in other applications programming languages (e.g. C++)
- Exposure to data analysis, statistics, or interpreting variability in results
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.
Sponsorship
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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Graphcore
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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Graphcore
Senior Systems Engineer – Performance & Reliability (Analysis)
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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 turn large-scale system measurements into decisions. Our team runs workloads across clusters of machines and collects detailed performance data. The challenge isn’t running the measurements—it’s deciding what they mean, and whether a system is good enough to enter production.
You will work with results from real systems and help answer questions like:
- Is this system behaving as expected?
- Is performance stable enough to trust?
- Does this meet the criteria to enter production?
This work includes systems engineering and analysis. It involves understanding variability, repeatability, and the differences between signal and noise.
You won’t be confined to a single role. You may shape measurements, influence how they are run, or improve how results are interpreted. You are free to specialise, but the team is responsible for leaving no gaps.
This is not a dashboarding or reporting role in the traditional sense. The goal is to produce outputs that support real engineering decisions.
We’re looking for engineers who:
- Think carefully about uncertainty and evidence
- Prefer clarity over presentation
- Are comfortable challenging conclusions when data is weak
Selection criteria:
Our engineers typically bring significant practical experience and sound engineering judgement.
Depth in one area is valued, but the ability to work across boundaries is equally important.
Essential
- Strong software engineering experience, typically gained across multiple projects or systems over several years
- Experience working in Linux-based environments, ideally with distributed or high-performance systems
- Proficiency in Python
- Experience with automation and CI/CD systems (e.g. GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
- Ability to design, implement, and run experiments or tests that produce meaningful results
- Ability to interpret results and communicate findings clearly, with an emphasis on accuracy and usefulness to decision-making
- Comfortable working in areas where requirements are not fully defined and judgement is required
Desirable
- Experience working with large-scale or distributed systems (e.g. clusters, cloud platforms, HPC environments)
- Experience with performance, reliability, or systems-level testing/measurement
- Familiarity with pytest or similar frameworks for structured test/measurement execution
- Experience analysing system behaviour under load (compute, network, or ML workloads)
- Experience working with containerisation, orchestration, or provisioning systems (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack)
- Proficiency in other applications programming languages (e.g. C++)7. Exposure to data analysis, statistics, or interpreting variability in results
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.
Sponsorship
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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Graphcore
Senior Systems Engineer – Performance & Reliability (Analysis)
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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 turn large-scale system measurements into decisions. Our team runs workloads across clusters of machines and collects detailed performance data. The challenge isn’t running the measurements—it’s deciding what they mean, and whether a system is good enough to enter production.
You will work with results from real systems and help answer questions like:
- Is this system behaving as expected?
- Is performance stable enough to trust?
- Does this meet the criteria to enter production?
This work includes systems engineering and analysis. It involves understanding variability, repeatability, and the differences between signal and noise.
You won’t be confined to a single role. You may shape measurements, influence how they are run, or improve how results are interpreted. You are free to specialise, but the team is responsible for leaving no gaps.
This is not a dashboarding or reporting role in the traditional sense. The goal is to produce outputs that support real engineering decisions.
We’re looking for engineers who:
- Think carefully about uncertainty and evidence
- Prefer clarity over presentation
- Are comfortable challenging conclusions when data is weak
Selection criteria:
Our engineers typically bring significant practical experience and sound engineering judgement.
Depth in one area is valued, but the ability to work across boundaries is equally important.
Essential
- Strong software engineering experience, typically gained across multiple projects or systems over several years
- Experience working in Linux-based environments, ideally with distributed or high-performance systems
- Proficiency in Python
- Experience with automation and CI/CD systems (e.g. GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
- Ability to design, implement, and run experiments or tests that produce meaningful results
- Ability to interpret results and communicate findings clearly, with an emphasis on accuracy and usefulness to decision-making
- Comfortable working in areas where requirements are not fully defined and judgement is required
Desirable
- Experience working with large-scale or distributed systems (e.g. clusters, cloud platforms, HPC environments)
- Experience with performance, reliability, or systems-level testing/measurement
- Familiarity with pytest or similar frameworks for structured test/measurement execution
- Experience analysing system behaviour under load (compute, network, or ML workloads)
- Experience working with containerisation, orchestration, or provisioning systems (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack)
- Proficiency in other applications programming languages (e.g. C++)7. Exposure to data analysis, statistics, or interpreting variability in results
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.
Sponsorship
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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Graphcore
Software Infrastructure Kubernetes Engineer
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About Graphcore
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.
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 system
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
- Develop, own, and maintain tools and services to support the software org
- Deploy and maintain Kubernetes infrastructure to develop, test, and scale Graphcore hardware and its software stack
- Manage our Cloud Infrastructure using tools such as Terraform
Candidate Profile
Essential:
- Practical experience developing in Go
- Familiarity with cloud services (AWS preferred)
- Experience managing or developing in Linux environments
- Understanding of CI/CD principles
- Strong experience of Kubernetes (k8s) development and deployment
Desirable
- Experience developing Kubernetes Controllers
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (e.g. Terraform/OpenTofu)
- Experience with GitHub Actions
- Experience with distributed HPC systems
- Experience with modern observability tooling (e.g. Prometheus)
- Knowledge of Python/C++ (or similar language)
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
Ready to apply?
Apply to Graphcore
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 decide whether entire racks of machines are good enough to enter production. Our team measures and evaluates large-scale Linux systems—from a single rack to data-centre scale. We don’t just run benchmarks; we determine whether a system behaves correctly, and whether it is reliable enough to be trusted.
The work spans designing workloads, building execution systems, and interpreting results. A measurement is only useful if it leads to a decision.
You won’t be confined to a narrow role. Some engineers here focus on infrastructure, others on workloads or analysis—but everyone contributes to understanding system behaviour at scale. You are free to specialise, but as a team we are responsible for leaving no gaps.
You might find yourself:
- Expanding measurement coverage from small clusters to full racks
- Designing workloads that expose system behaviour
- Building systems to run experiments across large clusters
- Interpreting results and defining what “good enough” looks like
This is not a pure infrastructure or data role. The work combines systems engineering, measurement, and judgement.
We’re looking for engineers who are comfortable working where the right answer isn’t obvious, and where careful measurement matters more than output volume.
Selection criteria:
Our engineers typically bring significant practical experience and sound engineering judgement. Depth in one area is valued, but the ability to work across boundaries is equally important.
Essential
- Strong software engineering experience, typically gained across multiple projects or systems over several years
- Experience working in Linux-based environments, ideally with distributed or high-performance systems
- Proficiency in Python
- Experience with automation and CI/CD systems (e.g. GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
- Ability to design, implement, and run experiments or tests that produce meaningful results
- Ability to interpret results and communicate findings clearly, with an emphasis on accuracy and usefulness to decision-making
- Comfortable working in areas where requirements are not fully defined and judgement is required
Desirable
- Experience working with large-scale or distributed systems (e.g. clusters, cloud platforms, HPC environments)
- Experience with performance, reliability, or systems-level testing/measurement
- Familiarity with pytest or similar frameworks for structured test/measurement execution
- Experience analysing system behaviour under load (compute, network, or ML workloads)
- Experience working with containerisation, orchestration, or provisioning systems (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack)
- Proficiency in other applications programming languages (e.g. C++)
- Exposure to data analysis, statistics, or interpreting variability in results
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.
Sponsorship
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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Graphcore
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