Senior Power and Performance Validation Engineer

About the Company

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.

Responsibilities

• Define validation strategies for power, thermal and performance characterization of AI compute silicon and platforms
• Develop comprehensive validation plans covering functional, stress, workload and corner-case scenarios
• Lead post-silicon bring-up and characterization activities for power and performance validation
• Develop scalable automation frameworks, regression infrastructure and reporting tools using Python
• Design and execute benchmark workloads, parameter sweeps and performance experiments
• Collaborate with architecture, RTL, firmware, software and systems teams to debug and resolve complex technical issues
• Analyse power, thermal and performance data to identify bottlenecks and recommend improvements

Requirements

• Strong experience in power and performance validation or silicon characterization
• Deep understanding of modern SoC architecture (CPU, memory, interconnect, high-speed I/O)
• Strong Linux systems knowledge and low-level performance analysis experience
• Strong Python programming skills for automation and data analysis
• Experience with benchmarking and profiling tools such as stress-ng, fio, perf, or iperf
• Experience debugging complex hardware and software interactions

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI accelerator, GPU or high-performance compute architectures
• Experience with pre-silicon modelling or simulation environments
• Knowledge of power management technologies
• Programming experience in C/C++ for low-level system development
• Familiarity with hardware instrumentation and telemetry systems