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 seeking a Senior Virtualisation Engineer to manage our corporate and engineering virtualisation platforms. These platforms support core services like Active Directory, DNS, source-control systems, and Kubernetes clusters. You will ensure the reliability, performance, and lifecycle management of our VM and container platforms. 

A key part of this role involves owning and managing our VDI environment for high-performance EDA CAD workloads. Experience with Omnissa Horizon or a similar virtual desktop platform is required. You will also manage the VM fleet daily, including provisioning, automation, patching, incident response, and optimization. Experience with VMware Tanzu or other Kubernetes orchestration platforms is highly valued. A strong automation approach is important to streamline deployment and simplify operations.

The Team

You’ll be joining a multidisciplinary team with strong technical skills and a very encouraging culture. We work closely together and regularly share knowledge, and your skills will make a direct impact on our business. It’s an exciting and pivotal moment for us right now, with plenty of new projects ahead. If you’re looking to solve interesting problems and see your work deliver real-world results, this is the team for you! 

Responsibilities and Duties

• Manage and maintain the corporate virtualisation platforms supporting core services.
• Run, track, and improve Kubernetes platforms (VMware Tanzu or alternatives).
• Manage the VDI environment used for EDA CAD workloads (Omnissa Horizon or similar).
• Carry out lifecycle tasks throughout the VM fleet, including provisioning, patching, and fault resolution.
• Automate deployment and operational processes (Ansible, Terraform, PowerCLI, Python, etc.).
• Automation of CI/CD based image/template creation to generate known secure images.
• Implement monitoring, capacity planning, and performance optimisation for hypervisors and virtual workloads.
• Diagnose intricate problems spanning virtualisation, network, and storage domains.
• Work with vendors on upgrades, support cases, and platform evaluations.

Candidate Profile

Essential:

• 5+ years experience coordinating enterprise virtualisation platforms.
• Strong hands-on experience with VMware vSphere/ESXi or equivalent.
• Experience handling VDI deployments at scale (Omnissa Horizon or VMware Horizon preferred).
• Experience managing core infrastructure (AD, DNS, SCM) in virtualised environments.
• Proficient in automation tools and scripting languages such as Ansible, Terraform, PowerCLI, Python, and others.
• Strong problem-solving abilities across compute, network, and storage.
• Experience with patching, upgrades, and capacity planning.
• Strong understanding of security architecture, hardening practices, and risk mitigation within virtualised environments.

Desirable:

• Experience supporting semiconductor or HPC/EDA environments.
• Familiarity with GPU-accelerated VDI or compute workloads.
• Knowledge of observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk).
• Understanding of high-performance networking (10/25/40/100GbE, RDMA, etc.).
• Experience with crafting sandbox environments for security and DR testing work, for example.
• Understanding of Kubernetes platforms (Tanzu, OpenShift, Rancher, etc.).
• Worked with third-party hyper-converged VMware platforms such as SimpliVity.

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.

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 highly experienced Lead Engineer Support Linux Engineer to guide and develop a small group supporting engineering systems in a fast-paced AI-centered environment. 

The position requires strong Linux skills combined with leadership, automation, and DevOps approaches to maintain systems that are reliable, scalable, and easy to support at scale. An important responsibility is developing and managing a configuration-as-code environment. In this setup, system configuration and operations are handled through automation, pipelines, and source control rather than manual intervention. 

You will be responsible for leading incident response, driving operational improvements, and setting standards for how Linux systems are managed and supported across the organization.

While the role includes leadership responsibilities, it will initially require a hands-on approach, including direct involvement in troubleshooting, system support, and automation efforts, while building team capability and scaling processes.

Collaborating intimately with engineering groups, platform engineers, and infrastructure experts, you will guarantee systems stay stable, efficient, and consistent with changing business and product delivery requirements. 

The Team

You’ll be joining a multi-disciplinary team with strong technical skills and a very supportive culture. We work closely together, regularly share knowledge, and your skills will make a direct impact on our business. It’s an exciting and pivotal moment for us right now, with plenty of new projects ahead. If you're looking to solve interesting problems and see your work deliver real-world results, this is the team for you!

Responsibilities and Duties

• Guide, mentor, and cultivate a team of Linux Engineering Support Engineers, defining clear roles, responsibilities, and methods of collaboration
• Own and oversee support for Linux-based systems and engineering environments, ensuring stability, performance, and availability
• Act as a point of contact for complex technical issues and outages, providing hands-on support when a customer concern arises
• Diagnose and resolve high-impact system and interoperability issues across mixed and distributed environments
• Perform hands-on investigation and troubleshooting to understand issues and drive effective solutions
• Direct incident response efforts, encompassing triage, coordination, and resolution
• Take responsibility for and lead Root Cause Analysis (RCA) processes, ensuring preventative improvements are identified and applied
• Establish and improve incident management processes, driving operational maturity and reliability
• Drive adoption of automation and configuration-as-code practices across Linux systems
• Ensure system changes are delivered through controlled, auditable processes wherever possible
• Oversee development and implementation of automation solutions for system management and operational tasks
• Promote and support use of workflows based on Git and CI/CD pipelines for configuration and operational processes
• Identify and prioritize opportunities to reduce manual effort through automation and improved tooling
• Collaborate with engineering teams to assist development environments and system requirements
• Act as a senior technical liaison between engineering teams and infrastructure/platform functions
• Support onboarding of new systems, services, and environments using standardized and automated approaches
• Ensure system configurations stay consistent and aligned with established standards and governance
• Oversee integration points (e.g. identity, CI/CD, tooling) and ensure issues are resolved effectively
• Identify and drive improvements in system performance, scalability, and maintainability
• Contribute to and enforce documentation, standards, and operational guidelines
• Ensure systems meet audit, compliance, and governance requirements, with full traceability of changes

Candidate Profile

Essential

• Extensive experience managing and maintaining Linux-based systems in complex technical or engineering environments
• Strong troubleshooting skills across operating systems, networking, storage, and application layers
• Demonstrated ability to identify and solve intricate technical problems, including within diverse or distributed settings
• Demonstrated experience managing significant incidents and outages, including directing resolution efforts and participating in Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
• Extensive background in automation and scripting (e.g., Bash, Python, or similar)
• Extensive background in configuration management or infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, or similar)
• Experience working with configuration-as-code practices and workflows managed through Git
• Experience building, managing, or assisting with CI/CD pipelines for configuration and operational processes
• Strong understanding of system interoperability across distributed environments
• Experience working within defined standards, governance frameworks, and controlled processes
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate closely with engineering, platform, and infrastructure teams
• Experience mentoring or supporting the development of other engineers
• Capability to work efficiently across different time zones within a dispersed organization
• Demonstrated capability to work autonomously, establish goals, and achieve results

Desirable

• Experience managing or coordinating incident response activities
• Experience working alongside DevOps, platform, or infrastructure engineering teams
• Experience with monitoring, observability, and logging systems
• Experience supporting AI/ML or high-performance computing environments
• Understanding of identity and access management concepts
• Experience building or scaling operational processes or support functions
• Experience managing and maintaining Linux-based systems in a technical or engineering environment

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.

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 seeking a Secrets Engineer to lead the development, deployment, and ownership of a secure, scalable secrets-management platform for the entire organization. You will build a new enterprise-grade HashiCorp Vault or OpenBao environment from scratch. It must be highly available, resilient, and suited for long-term use. 

This is a strategic role: you will deliver and operate the central platform. You will also collaborate with engineering, security, and operations teams that manage localized or ad-hoc secrets systems. A key part of your mission is to unify and standardize these methods across Graphcore, ensuring consistent guidelines, smooth migration, and organization-wide support. 

The Team

You’ll be joining a multidisciplinary team with strong technical skills and a very encouraging culture. We work closely together and regularly share knowledge, and your skills will make a direct impact on our business. It’s an exciting and pivotal moment for us right now, with plenty of new projects ahead. If you’re looking to solve interesting problems and see your work deliver real-world results, this is the team for you.

Responsibilities and Duties

Platform Ownership & Implementation

• Build, deploy, and operate an organization-wide HashiCorp Vault or OpenBao platform from scratch, ensuring high availability, scalability, and strong security posture.

• Define architecture for clustering, storage backends, auto-unseal, disaster recovery, and performance replication.

• Develop migration strategies and reference frameworks that allow other teams to move from their current secrets tools to the central platform.

• Standardization & Governance

• Collaborate with groups from engineering, security, and operations to merge various secrets stores into one unified system.

• Develop organizational standards, policies, access models, and workflows to ensure consistent, secure usage of the platform.

• Advocate for guidelines in secret lifecycle management, authentication methods, and identity federation.

Integrations, Enablement, and Developer Experience

• Build tooling, automation, onboarding guides, and libraries to help teams adopt Vault/OpenBao easily and accurately.

• Integrate Vault/OpenBao with CI/CD systems, cloud platforms, and internal services.

• Deliver workshops, training, and direct technical support to accelerate adoption.

Research & Advanced Security Capabilities

• Evaluate approaches for secure password storage for individual users—either within Vault/OpenBao or by assessing alternatives such as BitLocker or other credential-management systems.
• Conduct an initial study on the feasibility of implementing SPIFFE/SPIRE for workload identity, attestation, and zero-trust authentication, outlining future pathways and recommendations.

Collaboration & Cross-Team Work

• Partner with HPC, Networking, Storage, Security, and Cloud Engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of secrets workflows into broader infrastructure systems.
• Find opportunities to improve security posture and operational efficiency through automation and standardized secrets management. 

Candidate Profile

Essential:

• 4+ years in DevOps, SRE, security engineering, or platform engineering roles.
• Direct experience deploying and operating HashiCorp Vault, OpenBao, or a similar enterprise secrets-management system.
• Strong understanding of authentication backends (OIDC, LDAP, cloud IAM), secret engines, PKI, encryption, and token/credential lifecycle.
• Solid Linux administration and shell scripting experience.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred) and CI/CD automation.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across multiple engineering and security fields.

Desirable:

• Experience crafting HA/DR architectures for Vault/OpenBao.
• Experience connecting Vault with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of SPIFFE/SPIRE, workload identity, or zero-trust architectures.
• Understanding of modern security tooling, certificate management, or identity platforms.
• Python programming experience for automation and tooling.

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 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

In the role of Linux Engineer at Graphcore, you will be key to ensuring flawless operation of our systems and personnel. You will support core IT services and Linux environments daily, assisting colleagues with issue resolution efficiently. A strong focus on security and adherence to guidelines is essential. This is an outstanding chance to join a company breaking new ground in AI technology!

The Team

You’ll be joining a multidisciplinary team with outstanding technical skills and an encouraging culture. We collaborate closely, frequently exchanging knowledge, and your expertise will have a direct effect on our business. It's an exciting time to be part of Graphcore, with ambitious new projects ahead. If you’re eager to tackle interesting challenges and watch your work produce real-world outcomes, this is the team for you.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Logging and solving support requests face-to-face and via the ticketing system.
• Managing and supporting Linux-based systems, providing Layer 1 & 2 support.
• Security patching, including risk assessment for Linux environments.
• Collaborating with engineering teams to manage hybrid cloud and on-prem servers.
• Maintaining Infrastructure-as-Code specifications to deploy and automate changes.
• Handling key infrastructure services such as DNS, DHCP, VPN, and LDAP.
• Maintaining and supporting the virtualisation platform.
• Detailing solutions and maintaining a clear, up-to-date internal knowledge base.

Essential:

• Excellent communication and customer service skills.
• Strong understanding of troubleshooting principles and methodical problem-solving.
• Over 5 years of experience in System Administration concentrating on delivering essential infrastructure services and automation.
• Strong Linux administration skills in Debian & RedHat derivatives on bare metal and virtual machines.
• Good networking skills such as VLANs, VPNs, Wi-Fi, routing, and subnetting.
• Hands-on experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Experience in handling Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, or equivalent tools.
• Managing Virtualisation Platforms like VMware ESXi/vSphere and KVM/libvirtd.

Desirable

• Experience with identifying network/storage/CPU/RAM bottlenecks across complex workloads.
• Familiarity with various monitoring solutions and stacks (e.g., Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana Mimir, Open Telemetry).
• Experience handling web servers, load balancers, and reverse proxies (e.g., ha-proxy, nginx).
• Proficiency with containerisation frameworks and orchestration (e.g., Docker, containerd, Kubernetes).
• Python programming skills, with the ability to write code to interact with APIs, process data, and build small applications.

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 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.

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

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 seeking a Storage Engineer to be responsible for the architecture, performance, and management of the storage solutions that power our demanding EDA and HPC workloads. You will be the expert on all things storage, from high-performance parallel file systems to object storage and backup/recovery and corporate storage solutions. Your primary goal is to provide a resilient, scalable, and cost-effective storage platform that meets the requirements of our chip design and software development workflows. 

The Team 

You’ll be joining a multidisciplinary team with strong technical skills and a very supportive culture. We work closely together and regularly share knowledge, and your skills will make a direct impact on our business. It’s an exciting and pivotal moment for us right now, with plenty of new projects ahead. If you’re looking to solve interesting problems and see your work deliver real-world results, this is the team for you.  

Responsibilities and Duties 

• Manage and maintain on-premises storage platforms, including Linux-based NFS systems (e.g., ZFS) and enterprise storage arrays such as NetApp or Pure for both Corporate and Engineering workloads. 

• Manage backup and recovery systems (e.g., Rubrik, Cohesity), ensuring reliable data protection, retention, and tested restore processes. 

• Deploy and optimise scale-out or high-performance storage technologies such as Ceph, Lustre, GPFS, or WEKA to support EDA and HPC workloads. 

• Automate storage configuration, provisioning, and operational workflows. 

• Experience of managing storage in cloud environments such as AWS for engineering or backup purposes 

• Capacity planning, performance tuning, monitoring, incident response, and ongoing lifecycle management of storage services. 
• Work with vendors on hardware evaluation, procurement, updates, and support cases. 

Candidate Profile 

Essential: 

• 5+ years of experience in storage administration or engineering, with at least 3 years focused on cloud storage solutions in AWS 

• Hands on experience with enterprise storage platforms: NetApp ONTAP, Pure, DDN, Dell/EMC, etc. 

• Deep expertise in storage services, particularly NFS, CIFS, S3, and EBS 

• Hands-on experience with parallel or scale out file systems (Ceph, Lustre, WEKA, GPFS, etc.) in an HPC or high-throughput environment 

• Proven experience with backup, recovery, and DR strategies in a large-scale environment 

• Proficiency with using automation to deliver consistent storage configuration and deployment (Ansible, Terraform, Python, or similar) 

• Deep knowledge of providing storage to Virtualisation infrastructure 

• Good troubleshooting skills across storage, network, and compute boundaries. 

Desirable: 

• Experience in the semiconductor industry and familiarity with the storage demands of EDA workloads 

• Understanding of high-speed networking relevant to storage (10/25/40/100GbE, NFSv4.1, RDMA). 

• Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Splunk. 

• Experience of working with source control management tools such as Git. 

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 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

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.

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 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 

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

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 Kubernetes-managed 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. 
• 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. 

Skills and Experience (all required) 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in a relevant subject. 
• Experience with managing production Kubernetes clusters and workloads with a continuous delivery tool such as ArgoCD. 
• 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), virtual networks, block storage, resource management and monitoring. 
• Experience with IAC automation tools (Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, Packer). 
• 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 solutions for monitoring and observability. e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, OpenSearch/ElasticSearch, Loki.  
• Experience with High Performance Computing (HPC) environments using SLURM or similar batch workload solutions. 
• 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.

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.