Hardware Design Team Lead

About the job Lead the team making high-speed connections and power delivery reliable across Graphcore’s AI compute hardware. You’ll help specialists shape requirements, design margins and acceptance criteria across silicon, package, PCB and system boundaries. Your team’s constraints and verification evidence will help design owners make informed trade-offs before problems become harder to resolve. You’ll line-manage engineers, shape their development, agree achievable delivery commitments, and plan for tools, licences and compute capacity. You’ll coordinate analysis and hardware correlation, ensuring discrepancies receive specialist attention and integrity issues reach review and closure. The methods and knowledge your team builds will outlast individual designs, strengthening how Graphcore approaches future signal and power challenges. Grow your leadership across interconnected engineering disciplines, combining people development with judgement that influences hardware from architecture to bring-up. The team and culture Signal and power integrity specialists retain technical ownership, rather than relying on one person to solve every problem. You’ll connect their work with design, firmware, test, bring-up and manufacturing colleagues. Programme management owns the integrated plan. You’ll raise capacity conflicts early, bring practical options and make delivery confidence visible. Decisions depend on evidence, documented assumptions and proportionate peer review. You’ll encourage challenge, seek specialist input when needed and escalate unresolved disagreements before they hold work back. What we’re looking for People leadership that develops engineers, sets expectations and addresses difficult performance issues, with readiness for formal line management. Strong engineering foundations and experience in signal or power integrity, with sufficient understanding of the other discipline to challenge approaches. Experience coordinating specialist engineering delivery,

About the job Shape how Graphcore products move from hardware design into reliable volume manufacturing. As Staff Manufacturing Product Engineer, you will take a leading role in supporting NPI development and volume production across complex hardware products. You will connect design, test, quality and supply chain decisions with real manufacturing outcomes. Your work will help ensure products are manufacturable, resilient and ready for supplier capability. You will provide DfM feedback that improves PCB and system design before issues reach production. You will work closely with contract manufacturers, especially during NPI and early volume manufacture. You will drive yield improvement, analyse production data and resolve L6 manufacturing issues. This role suits someone who enjoys practical engineering ownership across design and production. You will travel to Taiwan and work close to suppliers shaping next generation manufacturing technologies. The team and culture You will join the Manufacturing and Technology Process team within Operations. The team works across Bristol, Cambridge and Taiwan, close to foundry, package assembly and PCBA partners. Work happens through clear ownership, supplier engagement and fast feedback into design teams. You will speak up early when manufacturability, yield or capability needs attention. The team values evidence, responsibility and strong cross-regional relationships. Decisions are made through engineering judgement, data and direct accountability for manufacturing performance. What we're looking for · Strong fault diagnosis, problem solving and failure analysis skills, including ICT to SMT debug · Thorough understanding of Automated surface mount assembly processes and manufacturing methodologies · Working knowledge of L10 mechanical design and system build, ideally for HPC products · Ability to connect silicon, package and PCB interactions into clear DfM feedback · Experienced in statistical analysis tools (e.g JMP, SQL, Pyth

About the job Build the framework support that helps AI developers unlock Graphcore hardware. You will help Graphcore accelerators work seamlessly with state-of-the-art ML frameworks, including Triton and PyTorch. Reporting to a Team Lead in Frameworks, you will design, implement, optimise and support critical software. Your work will shape how researchers and engineers use Graphcore hardware for demanding machine learning workloads. You will improve performance, quality and usability across a complex software stack. You will join our Triton team, delivering new features, reviewing code, writing technical documentation and working with upstream communities. You will also help coordinate open-ended technical work across teams. This role offers deep technical ownership and visible impact as the ML software landscape evolves. You will keep learning and may contribute across other framework teams. The team and culture The Frameworks team connects Graphcore hardware with the tools ML engineers and researchers rely on. We work across PyTorch, Triton, JAX and TensorFlow, focusing on usability and performance. Work happens through agile practices, close technical discussion and clear ownership. Engineers are trusted to speak up, solve hard problems and move work forward with pace. Decisions are shaped by evidence, code quality and business outcomes. You will work across Graphcore and with open-source communities to deliver software developers can trust. What we’re looking for · Strong software engineering skills, with the judgement to manage quality, complexity and technical debt. · Experience developing in Python and C++. · Experience in compiler development. · Ability to manage complex technical tasks with cross-team dependencies. · Clear communication skills, with a proactive approach to collaboration and technical leadership. · Interest in AI, ML frameworks, performance optimisation or computationally intensive engineering. Benefits · Flexible working: Balance your work

About the job Help shape the first moments of life for the next generation of AI processors. You'll lead the bring-up and characterisation of Graphcore's silicon devices and system platforms. Your work will ensure products perform reliably before they reach customers. You'll build and lead a team that develops characterisation plans, automates testing, and analyses results across silicon and system platforms. You'll work closely with architecture, silicon, hardware, operations and product teams to solve complex technical challenges. This is a hands-on technical leadership role with the opportunity to influence product design, shape new capabilities, and build a team from the ground up. The team and culture You'll join a newly formed team within Manufacturing Operations and help define how bring-up and characterisation is delivered at Graphcore. Your decisions will shape the team's direction as it grows. The team works closely with colleagues across Bristol, Cambridge and Taiwan. Success comes from solving problems together, sharing data, and making informed engineering decisions. You'll be trusted to take ownership, remove blockers, and improve how work is done. We value people who speak up, challenge assumptions, and turn ideas into practical solutions. What we're looking for Essential Proven track record of delivering technical outcomes as an individual contributor, manager, or project manager, with strong communication and stakeholder management skills. Solid experience in silicon digital device design, bring-up, and characterisation, with a good understanding of silicon process technology and its impact on transistor- and system-level performance. Strong knowledge of high-performance processors, system-on-chip (SoC) architectures, and high-speed digital interfaces such as PCIe, Ethernet, and DDR. Experience with measurement automation, data analysis, and developing code or scripts to support automated testing and analysis workflows. Bachelor's degree (or e

About the job Define how Graphcore tests complex hardware before it reaches production and the field. As Principal Board Test Engineer, you will lead advanced manufacturing test strategy for complex Circuit Board Assemblies. You will shape how Graphcore improves defect coverage, diagnostic resolution and production quality. Your work will influence products, test architectures and manufacturing partners. You will define methods, evaluation criteria and technical approaches that help PTD move faster with confidence. You will design and direct test strategies across optical inspection, X-ray inspection, in-circuit test, boundary scan and functional test. You will turn complex issues into clear decisions for engineering, suppliers and CEM partners. This is a senior technical role with real ownership. You will set direction, mentor engineers and help Graphcore build stronger test capability for future products. The Team and Culture The Product Test and Diagnosis team detects, diagnoses and manages hardware defects across chips, boards and full systems. The team works close to design, manufacturing, silicon, software and systems engineering. Work moves through hands-on investigation, clear technical judgement and direct ownership. You will be expected to act fast, speak up and take responsibility for test strategy decisions. Decisions are shaped by evidence, design intent and manufacturing reality. You will help the team think big, challenge assumptions and raise engineering standards across disciplines. What we’re looking for · Deep expertise in manufacturing test for advanced, high-complexity Circuit Board Assemblies. · Strong knowledge of electronics fundamentals, CCA manufacturing processes and defect mechanisms. · Expertise in JTAG 1149.x boundary scan, iJTAG and embedded or processor-controlled functional test. · Experience architecting, programming and debugging bed-of-nails MDA/ICT and board-level test systems. · Capability to define test methods, evaluation fram

About the job Build the test systems that help deliver AI hardware at production scale. As a Staff Hardware System Test Engineer, you'll develop manufacturing test solutions for complex compute systems. Your work will help ensure products reach customers with the quality and reliability expected from Graphcore. You'll shape how hardware is tested across Host Processor Modules, server blades, and multi-node racks. The tools, test content, and diagnostics you create will directly influence manufacturing efficiency and product quality. You'll develop test software, design test approaches, and solve challenging hardware issues. You'll work closely with hardware, firmware, software, and manufacturing teams to improve test coverage and diagnose problems quickly. This role offers broad technical scope across silicon, boards, systems, software, and manufacturing. You'll have the opportunity to influence engineering decisions and raise technical standards across the organisation. The team and culture The Product Test and Diagnosis team owns the strategy for finding and diagnosing hardware defects throughout the product lifecycle. The team works across silicon, boards, servers, and rack-scale systems. Day to day, engineers work closely with design, firmware, software, quality, and manufacturing teams. Problems are solved through data, technical debate, and hands-on investigation. You'll join a global engineering group spanning the UK, Taiwan, India, and the United States. People are trusted to take ownership, make decisions, and drive improvements that deliver measurable results. What we're looking for Essential: Significant experience developing and deploying manufacturing test solutions for high-performance servers, accelerators (GPU-class), or comparable large-scale compute hardware. Strong technical leadership as an individual contributor, with experience owning substantial technical workstreams and collab