Staff Programme Manager
As a Staff Programme Manager within the Product Test and Diagnosis group at Graphcore, you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and supporting the delivery of manufacturing test solutions for New Product Introductions (NPI). This role involves developing and integrating plans across Chip Test, Board Test, System Test, Lab, and Silicon Characterisation teams, ensuring their activities are aligned into a cohesive, end-to-end programme that supports manufacturing readiness. You will work within the Manufacturing Operations organisation, which includes Manufacturing Technology, Supply Chain, Quality, and Product Test and Diagnosis teams, to drive cross-functional alignment and execution. Additionally, you will maintain visibility of the Graphcore product roadmap to anticipate upcoming technical and operational challenges, ensuring Manufacturing Operations is prepared to support future products.
Key responsibilities include defining, owning, and communicating the integrated programme plan for Product Test and Diagnosis, covering Manufacturing Test, Lab infrastructure and operations, and Silicon Characterisation activities in support of NPI. You will build and maintain cohesive, end-to-end plans that align the outputs of the Chip Test, Board Test, System Test, Lab, and Characterisation teams with broader Manufacturing Operations and product delivery milestones. Managing dependencies and execution across engineering, operations, and manufacturing is crucial, ensuring clear scope definition, deliverables, timelines, ownership, and success metrics. You will also coordinate and drive Design for X (DfX) reviews, ensuring timely input from test, characterisation, lab, and manufacturing perspectives into product design decisions. Maintaining strong cross-functional and multi-regional working relationships within Graphcore and with external partners, including contract manufacturers and key suppliers, is essential. Additionally, you will provide programme-level visibility, risk management, and issue resolution, proactively identifying schedule, resource, or technical risks and driving mitigation plans. Enhancing NPI and New Product Development (NPD) processes by assessing current workflows across test, lab, and characterisation activities, identifying efficiency improvements, and implementing best practices is also part of your role.
The ideal candidate will possess strong programme and project management skills, with the ability to apply and tailor different delivery methodologies (e.g., waterfall, Agile, Scrum) to suit hardware-centric, cross-functional programmes. A solid understanding of test and diagnosis solutions across the server product lifecycle, including silicon wafers, packaged devices, PCB assemblies, server blades, rack-scale systems, and associated lab and characterisation activities, is essential. You should have the ability to understand and communicate the interactions between hardware design, manufacturing, test, lab infrastructure, and silicon characterisation to provide effective Design for Manufacturing and Test (DfM/DfT) feedback. Proven ability to work independently while also driving alignment and execution across cross-functional and geographically distributed teams through strong interpersonal and communication skills is required. Experience managing complex dependency networks and aligning technical teams with operational and manufacturing constraints is also important.
In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working, a generous annual leave policy, private medical insurance, a 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 interviews and encourage you to chat with us if you require any reasonable adjustments.
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