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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
Applicants for this role should have strong experience designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality software systems. The role focuses on testing and validating a complex machine learning software stack, with particular emphasis on software architecture, automation, and engineering best practices.
The ideal candidate is an experienced software engineer who values code quality, testability, and long-term maintainability, and enjoys building systems that other engineers rely on. This person will be comfortable working across large codebases, contributing to CI/CD infrastructure, and shaping technical direction through thoughtful design and mentoring in a technically demanding environment spanning ML frameworks, infrastructure, and AI accelerator hardware
The Team
The ML QA team is composed of highly skilled software engineers with a strong focus on automation, software quality, and data-driven validation. The team works closely with industry-standard machine learning frameworks and models, contributing to upstream open-source projects and collaborating across the wider software organization.
Operating in a fast-paced environment, the team plays a critical role in ensuring reliability, performance, and maintainability across the ML software stack, helping to deliver robust and high-quality products to customers.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Design, implement, and maintain robust test infrastructure and automation for a complex ML software stack.
- Architect and evolve test frameworks and tooling with a focus on scalability, maintainability, and developer experience.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines targeting simulators, emulators (e.g. QEMU), and physical hardware.
- Create representative ML workloads and gain insights from their execution. (Numerical accuracy, performance analysis and benchmarking).
- Work closely with all Software development teams, supporting a culture of quality, security and maintainability.
- Review code and designs, setting a high bar for software engineering best practices.
- Mentor and support junior engineers, helping raise the overall technical capability of the team.
- Evaluate existing test strategies and infrastructure, identifying gaps and driving improvements aligned with team and organizational goals.
Candidate Profile
Essential:
- Experience in production-quality software engineering roles.
- Strong software design and architecture skills, with experience working on large or complex systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python, including experience building and maintaining production codebases.
- Solid experience with CI/CD systems and automated testing (preferably GitHub-based workflows).
- Experience working in Linux environments.
- Familiarity with C or C++, with the ability to read, debug, and reason about low-level code when needed.
- Proven ability to mentor junior engineers and influence engineering practices within a team.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive, self-directed approach to work.
- Bachelor/Master's/PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Maths, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related field.
Desirable
- Exposure to machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, Triton, TensorFlow
- Experience with distributed workload management systems such as Kubernetes, VLLM, Keras or MLOps pipelines
- Experience working with hardware simulators or emulators (e.g. QEMU).
- Experience developing for or working with FPGA-based systems.
- Experience with people management or mentoring
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 are looking for an intern to join our Platform Quality Assurance group. You will learn how to creatively exercise our product and provide feedback to the engineering delivery and product management teams. This helps them make decisions about engineering effort and the trajectory of the product. Working in either the component Quality Assurance team you will develop a close working relationship with the relevant development teams; or working in the integration Quality Assurance exercising the aggregated and composed system at a much larger scale with a bias towards informing the product management team.
You will provide valuable observations and measurements of the product, looking beyond the natural focus of the delivery and product teams, painting a comprehensive behavioural picture of the product in typical and atypical scenarios.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Supporting the execution of tests and reports optimised for the different decision-making readers including delivery engineering and the product management teams.
- Supporting the organisation of a repository of results & collaboration with the QA team.
- Developing or refining your skills in the domain area of the product component or the system in aggregate and at scale.
- Specific domains include Workload Management (Kubernetes, Ray, and so on); Cloud Development; Management & Observability
Skills and Experience
Essential:
- Currently studying towards and Undergraduate/ Master’s Degree in Computer Science, or similar degree.
- Strong relevant programming experience Python/Go/C++/infrastructure-as-code scripting or related to the domain.
- Experience working in Linux environments.
- Automation of building/testing with continuous integration systems.
- Strong impartial report writing optimised for the reader.
- Aptitude for planning, constructing, and executing responsibilities & duties above.
Desirable:
- Domain experience of the products under test: Containerisation (e.g. Docker), Virtualisation and Provisioning, Workload and job scheduling (e.g. Kubernetes, Ray) on high core-count machines and rack-scale installations.
- Experience in quality assurance/testing teams.
- Experience with the Atlassian suite and CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins; GitHub or GitLab actions.
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
About Graphcore
How often do you get the chance to build a technology that transforms the future of humanity?
Graphcore products have set the standard in made-for-AI compute hardware and software, gaining global attention and industry acclaim. Now we are developing the next generation of artificial intelligence compute with systems that will allow AI researchers to develop more advanced models, help scientists unlock exciting new discoveries, and power companies around the world as they put AI at the heart of their business.
Graphcore recently joined SoftBank Group – bringing large and ongoing investment from one of the world’s leading backers of innovative AI companies.
Job Summary
We are looking for a Senior Network Engineer to join our Cloud Platform Team and help develop and deploy clouds and services. Working closely with our colleagues in Software Platform, Datacentre Operations and Product Development teams, you will deploy services onour fleet of cutting-edge AI systems. As part of our Software Platform organisation, you will be involved in the cloud integration, validation, performance benchmarking, optimisation, and development of our high-performance AI solutions. These include in-house AI systems alongside off-the-shelf high-performance servers, switches and storage solutions. This is a hand-on technical role requiring a solid background in the use of cloud infrastructure, deployment using Infrastructure-as-Code, observability, high-performance networkingand storage systems. You may have been working in an IT organisation, a datacentre, a cloud provider or as a developer of orchestration or cloud services.
The Software Platform team at Graphcore
We build Graphcore products into large-scale AI solutions for our customers and the Cloud Platform Team is responsible for providing such systems to both internal users via private clouds and customers via our own public clouds. Often the internal systems will be using and developing pre-release hardware and software, so it’s vital you are comfortable with unproven components.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Develop and operate high-performance ethernet infrastructure on our private clouds and support internal users in their use. You will turn end-user and product requirements into deployed services.
- Help to build automation to collect and analyse metrics and other data from the network infrastructure to support clear identification and reporting of any issues. Work with users to provide information of any product-related issues to Engineering and QA departments.
- Work with our Datacentre Operations Engineers to maintain, tune and operate the fleet of AI systems at peak performance in our private clouds.
- Work with external vendors of off-the-shelf switches, servers and storage solutions to integrate 3rd party products into our Cloud Reference Design, with a focus on network performance, automation and resilience.
Skills and Experience (all required)
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant subject.
- Significant hands-on experience with 1 or more vendor’s high-end (100Gb/s+) ethernet switch solutions.
- Experience managing on-premises or private-cloud environments.
- Solid software engineering or IT experience with a proven track record of delivering technical output as an individual contributor.
- Experience working in an AGILE and SCRUM framework, including understanding of priorities, risks, issues, impacts and constraints.
- Strong proven Linux scripting ability (bash, python, awk, sed).
- Strong proven Linux system administration (Ubuntu, RHEL and variants).
- Experience with a version control system (preferably Git) and using it to manage system configuration or automation.
- Experience with Continuous Integration or testing pipelines using GitLab, GitHub or similar.
- A solid hands-on understanding of the technologies underpinning cloud services (APIs, virtualisation of CPUs, IO, systems) and how they relate to high-performance networking.
- Experience with IAC automation tools (Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible).
- Experience with container deployment and management tools (e.g. docker).
- Experience with solutions for monitoring and observability. e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, Loki.
- Good communication and presentation skills, and experience dealing with end-users of IT services.
- An ability to work independently on critical infrastructure with minimal oversight, and with a focus on end-user availability.
Desirable but not required:
- Experience with Openstack cloud platforms.
- Experience with High Performance Computing (HPC) environments using SLURM or similar batch workload solutions.
- Experience with hardware offloading on RDMA-capable NICs and how that integrates with virtual networking on Open V-switch, KVM/QEMU.
- Experience with managing production Kubernetes clusters and workloads with an automation tool such as ArgoCD.
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 Graphcore
How often do you get the chance to build a technology that transforms the future of humanity?
Graphcore products have set the standard in made-for-AI compute hardware and software, gaining global attention and industry acclaim. Now we are developing the next generation of artificial intelligence compute with systems that will allow AI researchers to develop more advanced models, help scientists unlock exciting new discoveries, and power companies around the world as they put AI at the heart of their business.
Graphcore recently joined SoftBank Group – bringing large and ongoing investment from one of the world’s leading backers of innovative AI companies.
Job Summary
We are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our Cloud Platform Team and help develop and deploy clouds and services. Working closely with our colleagues in Software Platform, Datacentre Operations and Product Development teams, you will deploy services on our fleet of cutting-edge AI systems. As part of our Software Platform organisation, you will be involved in the cloud integration, validation, performance benchmarking, optimisation, and development of our high-performance AI solutions. These include in-house AI systems alongside off-the-shelf high-performance servers, switches and storage solutions. This is a hand-on technical role requiring a solid background in the use of cloud infrastructure, deployment using Infrastructure-as-Code, observability, high-performance networking and storage systems. You may have been working in an IT organisation, a datacentre, a cloud provider or as a developer of orchestration or cloud services.
The Software Platform team at Graphcore
We build Graphcore products into large-scale AI solutions for our customers and the Cloud Platform Team is responsible for providing such systems to both internal users via private clouds and customers via our own public clouds. Often the internal systems will be using and developing pre-release hardware and software, so it’s vital you are comfortable with unproven components.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Develop and operate end-user services on our private clouds and support internal users in their use. You will turn end-user and product requirements into deployed services.
- Help to build automation to collect and analyse metrics and other data from the cloud services to support clear identification and reporting of any issues. Work with users to provide information of any product-related issues to Engineering and QA departments.
- Work with our Datacentre Operations Engineers to maintain and operate the fleet of AI systems at peak performance in our private clouds.
- Configure and test new Graphcore AI hardware and systems using Continuous Deployment and Infrastructure-as-code in internal and external datacentres.
- Work with external vendors of off-the-shelf switches, servers and storage solutions to integrate 3rd party products into our Cloud Reference Design.
Skills and Experience (all required)
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant subject.
- Solid software engineering or IT experience with a proven track record of delivering technical output as an individual contributor.
- Experience managing on-premises or private-cloud environments.
- Experience working in an AGILE and SCRUM framework, including understanding of priorities, risks, issues, impacts and constraints.
- Strong proven Linux scripting ability (bash, python, awk, sed).
- Strong proven Linux system administration (Ubuntu, RHEL and variants).
- Experience with a version control system (preferably Git) and using it to manage system configuration or automation.
- Experience with Continuous Integration or testing pipelines using GitLab, GitHub or similar.
- A solid hands-on understanding of the technologies underpinning cloud services (APIs, virtualisation of CPUs, IO, systems), virtual networks, block storage, resource management and monitoring.
- Experience with IAC automation tools (Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, Packer).
- Experience with container deployment and management tools (e.g. docker).
- Experience with solutions for monitoring and observability. e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, Loki.
- Good communication and presentation skills, and experience dealing with end-users of IT services.
- An ability to work independently on critical infrastructure with minimal oversight, and with a focus on end-user availability.
Desirable but not required:
- Experience with Openstack cloud platforms.
- Experience with High Performance Computing (HPC) environments using SLURM or similar batch workload solutions.
- Experience with managing production Kubernetes clusters and workloads.
- Programming experience with Python3 utilising classes and inheritance.
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 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
Applicants for this role should have strong experience working with machine learning systems and frameworks, along with a solid understanding of core AI concepts and model behaviour. The role centres on testing, validating, and benchmarking a complex ML software stack, with a particular focus on performance, reliability, and correctness across modern AI workloads.
The ideal candidate is an experienced ML engineer who understands how contemporary models are trained and executed, and who has hands-on experience debugging functional and performance issues in ML systems. This person will be comfortable working with industry-standard frameworks and state-of-the-art models, bringing them up on internal infrastructure, and collaborating closely with software and hardware teams in a technically demanding environment spanning ML frameworks, infrastructure, and AI accelerator hardware.
The Team
The ML QA team is composed of highly skilled software engineers with a strong focus on automation, software quality, and data-driven validation. The team works closely with industry-standard machine learning frameworks and models, contributing to upstream open-source projects and collaborating across the wider software organization.
Operating in a fast-paced environment, the team plays a critical role in ensuring reliability, performance, and maintainability across the ML software stack, helping to deliver robust and high-quality products to customers.
Responsibilities and Duties
• Benchmark ML models and frameworks, analysing results to identify regressions, performance bottlenecks, and correctness issues.
• Work hands-on with industry-standard ML frameworks to validate functionality and performance across different execution environments.
• Build and maintain automated testing and benchmarking pipelines targeting simulators, emulators, and physical hardware.
• Collaborate closely with software teams to ensure adequate test coverage for new and existing features.
• Develop tooling and scripts (primarily in Python) to support testing, benchmarking, and functional reporting.
• Take ownership over aspects of our testing and infrastructure, owning the roadmap and driving innovation independently.
Candidate Profile
Essential:
• Experience working in Machine Learning or ML-adjacent engineering roles.
• Strong foundation in core AI and ML concepts (e.g. neural networks, training vs inference, numerical precision, performance trade-offs).
• Hands-on experience with one or more major ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, or similar.
• Strong proficiency in Python for ML workflows, experimentation, and automation.
• Experience designing, running, and analysing ML benchmarks or experiments.
• Experience working in Linux environments.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills, with the ability to reason about model behaviour and system performance.
• Bachelor/Master's/PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Maths, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related field.
Desirable
• Experience with MLOps pipelines, model deployment, or production ML systems.
• Familiarity with performance analysis, profiling tools, or numerical accuracy validation.
• Exposure to distributed training or inference systems.
• Experience with hardware-accelerated ML, compilers, or system-level performance considerations.
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems used for ML workflows.
• Experience contributing to open-source ML frameworks or tooling.
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
Applicants for this role should have strong experience designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality software systems. The role focuses on testing and validating a complex machine learning software stack, with particular emphasis on software architecture, automation, and engineering best practices.
The ideal candidate is an experienced software engineer who values code quality, testability, and long-term maintainability, and enjoys building systems that other engineers rely on. This person will be comfortable working across large codebases, contributing to CI/CD infrastructure, and shaping technical direction through thoughtful design and mentoring in a technically demanding environment spanning ML frameworks, infrastructure, and AI accelerator hardware
The Team
The ML QA team is composed of highly skilled software engineers with a strong focus on automation, software quality, and data-driven validation. The team works closely with industry-standard machine learning frameworks and models, contributing to upstream open-source projects and collaborating across the wider software organization.
Operating in a fast-paced environment, the team plays a critical role in ensuring reliability, performance, and maintainability across the ML software stack, helping to deliver robust and high-quality products to customers.
Responsibilities and Duties
- Design, implement, and maintain robust test infrastructure and automation for a complex ML software stack.
- Architect and evolve test frameworks and tooling with a focus on scalability, maintainability, and developer experience.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines targeting simulators, emulators (e.g. QEMU), and physical hardware.
- Create representative ML workloads and gain insights from their execution. (Numerical accuracy, performance analysis and benchmarking).
- Work closely with all Software development teams, supporting a culture of quality, security and maintainability.
- Review code and designs, setting a high bar for software engineering best practices.
- Mentor and support junior engineers, helping raise the overall technical capability of the team.
- Evaluate existing test strategies and infrastructure, identifying gaps and driving improvements aligned with team and organizational goals.
Candidate Profile
Essential:
- Experience in production-quality software engineering roles.
- Strong software design and architecture skills, with experience working on large or complex systems.
- Strong proficiency in Python, including experience building and maintaining production codebases.
- Solid experience with CI/CD systems and automated testing (preferably GitHub-based workflows).
- Experience working in Linux environments.
- Familiarity with C or C++, with the ability to read, debug, and reason about low-level code when needed.
- Proven ability to mentor junior engineers and influence engineering practices within a team.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive, self-directed approach to work.
- Bachelor/Master's/PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Maths, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related field.
Desirable
- Exposure to machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, Triton, TensorFlow
- Experience with distributed workload management systems such as Kubernetes, VLLM, Keras or MLOps pipelines
- Experience working with hardware simulators or emulators (e.g. QEMU).
- Experience developing for or working with FPGA-based systems.
- Experience with people management or mentoring
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
Applicants for this role should have strong experience working with machine learning systems and frameworks, along with a solid understanding of core AI concepts and model behaviour. The role centres on testing, validating, and benchmarking a complex ML software stack, with a particular focus on performance, reliability, and correctness across modern AI workloads.
The ideal candidate is an experienced ML engineer who understands how contemporary models are trained and executed, and who has hands-on experience debugging functional and performance issues in ML systems. This person will be comfortable working with industry-standard frameworks and state-of-the-art models, bringing them up on internal infrastructure, and collaborating closely with software and hardware teams in a technically demanding environment spanning ML frameworks, infrastructure, and AI accelerator hardware.
The Team
The ML QA team is composed of highly skilled software engineers with a strong focus on automation, software quality, and data-driven validation. The team works closely with industry-standard machine learning frameworks and models, contributing to upstream open-source projects and collaborating across the wider software organization.
Operating in a fast-paced environment, the team plays a critical role in ensuring reliability, performance, and maintainability across the ML software stack, helping to deliver robust and high-quality products to customers.
Responsibilities and Duties
• Benchmark ML models and frameworks, analysing results to identify regressions, performance bottlenecks, and correctness issues.
• Work hands-on with industry-standard ML frameworks to validate functionality and performance across different execution environments.
• Build and maintain automated testing and benchmarking pipelines targeting simulators, emulators, and physical hardware.
• Collaborate closely with software teams to ensure adequate test coverage for new and existing features.
• Develop tooling and scripts (primarily in Python) to support testing, benchmarking, and functional reporting.
• Take ownership over aspects of our testing and infrastructure, owning the roadmap and driving innovation independently.
Candidate Profile
Essential:
• Experience working in Machine Learning or ML-adjacent engineering roles.
• Strong foundation in core AI and ML concepts (e.g. neural networks, training vs inference, numerical precision, performance trade-offs).
• Hands-on experience with one or more major ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, or similar.
• Strong proficiency in Python for ML workflows, experimentation, and automation.
• Experience designing, running, and analysing ML benchmarks or experiments.
• Experience working in Linux environments.
• Strong analytical and debugging skills, with the ability to reason about model behaviour and system performance.
• Bachelor/Master's/PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Maths, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related field.
Desirable
• Experience with MLOps pipelines, model deployment, or production ML systems.
• Familiarity with performance analysis, profiling tools, or numerical accuracy validation.
• Exposure to distributed training or inference systems.
• Experience with hardware-accelerated ML, compilers, or system-level performance considerations.
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems used for ML workflows.
• Experience contributing to open-source ML frameworks or tooling.
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 Software Engineer, Windows/Desktop Applications - Bristol, United Kingdom
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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
- Lead the design, architecture, and development of native Windows desktop applications using Windows App SDK, WinUI (or related UI frameworks), C#, XAML, and — when needed — C++.
- Define and enforce best-practices for Windows desktop development across the codebase: code architecture, performance, memory usage, responsive UI, cross-version compatibility (Windows 10/11+), and maintainability.
- Drive accessibility efforts: integrate and validate support for accessibility APIs (e.g. Microsoft UI Automation or other relevant Windows accessibility frameworks), ensure UI controls, focus management, keyboard navigation, screen-reader support, and usability for users with disabilities.
- Collaborate closely with product designers, UX researchers, QA, and other stakeholders to shape feature planning, UI/UX architecture, and long-term roadmap for the Windows platform.
- Take ownership of full lifecycle of features: conception → design → implementation → testing → release → maintenance. Ensure quality, reliability, and consistency across releases.
- Identify, diagnose, and resolve complex bugs, performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, rendering issues, or compatibility problems — and propose robust architectural or design solutions.
Required:
- 3+ in Windows desktop application development using Windows App SDK, WinUI (or similar), C#, XAML — and ideally additional experience with native Windows code (C++, Win32/WinRT/COM).
- Deep understanding of Windows application architecture, including interop between managed code (.NET) and native code.
- Proven track record of designing, building, and shipping production-quality desktop applications, with an emphasis on reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
- Strong experience with accessibility APIs on Windows (e.g. Microsoft UI Automation or similar), and a dedication to building accessible and inclusive software.
- Excellent software engineering fundamentals: OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, memory management, multi-threading or asynchronous programming (where relevant).
- Experience leading technical design, mentoring other engineers, conducting code reviews, and making architecture-level decisions.
- Strong communication skills; ability to articulate tradeoffs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive consensus.
- A user-centric mindset: focus on building polished, intuitive, and accessible experiences for end users.
Preferred / Bonus:
- Experience with writing automated tests for UI — unit tests, integration tests, UI automation tests; familiarity with relevant testing frameworks.
- Experience with performance optimization for desktop apps (memory usage, startup time, rendering performance, high-DPI support, responsiveness under load).
- Experience with localization/globalization, right-to-left UI support, internationalization, accessibility for multiple regions.
- Familiarity with telemetry, analytics, crash reporting, logging, and error monitoring in desktop applications.
- Previous experience in shaping CI/CD workflows, release pipelines, and deployment strategies for desktop applications.
- Demonstrated ability to take ownership of feature areas or modules and drive them long-term, including maintenance, refactoring, and technical debt management.
What we offer
- A high-impact role: you will define architecture, shape the future of our Windows product, and directly influence what millions of users see and experience.
- A collaborative, flat-structure engineering culture — you are not just a coder, but a builder and a decision-maker.
- Opportunities to lead — mentor others, steer technical direction, and grow into broader technical leadership (e.g. Tech Lead, Architect).
- Flexibility, autonomy, and responsibility: you define how to solve problems, own features end-to-end, and contribute to long-term product vision.
- A purpose-driven mission: building software that’s reliable, accessible, and user-centered — making a real difference for people.
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