Principal Execution & QA Validation Engineer
The Principal Execution & QA Validation Engineer at Graphcore will lead validation execution, automation, product quality, and release readiness across Graphcore's silicon and platform technologies. This role combines deep expertise in hardware validation, test automation, and quality engineering with a strong focus on execution excellence. The successful candidate will work closely with architecture, design, verification, firmware, software, systems engineering, and validation teams to develop scalable validation methodologies, improve test coverage and execution efficiency, and ensure products meet the highest standards of functionality, reliability, and performance before customer deployment.
Key responsibilities include defining and driving validation strategies for complex silicon, subsystem, and platform technologies, ensuring comprehensive coverage across functional, performance, reliability, and stress testing. The engineer will leverage advanced hardware knowledge to plan, optimize, verify, and test critical electronic systems, including silicon, FPGA-based platforms, test systems, and associated validation infrastructure. They will develop and execute validation plans that ensure products meet quality, reliability, and performance objectives before release, create detailed test plans from high-level validation requirements and test cases, and design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks that enable rapid execution of test plans, regression suites, and validation activities. Additionally, the role involves leading silicon and platform validation activities from bring-up through product readiness, conducting complex analysis of validation results and system behavior to identify issues and opportunities for improvement, and collaborating with various teams to implement new validation requirements and improve test coverage.
The ideal candidate should have a strong background in hardware validation, test automation, and quality engineering, with experience in developing and executing validation strategies for complex silicon and platform technologies. Proficiency in designing and maintaining automation frameworks, conducting root-cause analysis, and collaborating with cross-functional teams is essential. Experience in developing automated data collection, analysis, and reporting solutions to improve engineering visibility and decision-making is also important. A deep understanding of validation techniques, workflows, and engineering processes, along with the ability to introduce automation and process improvements to maximize productivity, is required.
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Graphcore is a leading innovator in Artificial Intelligence compute, developing hardware, software, and systems infrastructure that unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs. As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is committed to enabling Artificial Super Intelligence and ensuring its benefits are accessible to everyone. The company fosters a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation, drawing teams from diverse backgrounds to bring a broad range of skills and perspectives.