Staff Software Engineer

About the Company

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.

Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing, testing and documenting Collectives Communication Library for new AI hardware accelerator
• Collaborating with other teams to design, implement and test new features
• Troubleshooting and resolving complex technical issues
• Ensuring seamless integration of new hardware with existing AI ecosystem
• Participating in agile development – working as part of a scrum team

Requirements

• Extensive experience in software development using C++
• Experience with Python and C programming
• Strong knowledge of multithreading and inter-process communication (IPC)
• Experience with unit testing frameworks such as Boost.Test and Google Test
• Proficiency with build tools such as CMake, Make and Ninja
• Strong understanding of version control systems
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with RDMA networking libraries (e.g., libibverbs, libfabric)
• Knowledge of parallel computing concepts and optimization for AI/ML and HPC systems
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
• Experience with communication libraries (e.g., NCCL, MPI)
• Knowledge of machine learning frameworks like PyTorch
• Knowledge of modern C++ standards 17/20

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Annual leave policy
• Medical and dental health plans
• Gym card
• Employee pension (matched up to 4%)