Senior Staff Engineer - Platform QA

Job Description

Graphcore is seeking a Senior Staff Engineer to join their Platform Quality Assurance group in Bristol, UK. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in providing feedback to the engineering delivery and product management teams, influencing engineering efforts and product trajectory. They will be responsible for creatively exercising Graphcore's products, offering valuable observations and measurements in both typical and atypical scenarios.

The Senior Staff Engineer will work closely with development and quality teams to design and build novel tests and measurements, gathering insights from Graphcore's systems. They will balance established methods with customized measurements to build a catalogue of system and domain-specific insights, ensuring confidence in the platform's quality.

Responsibilities include:

• Planning, constructing, and executing tests and reports optimized for different decision-making readers.
• Organising and maintaining a repository of results & collaboration with the QA team.
• Developing or refining expertise in the domain area of the product component or the system in aggregate and at scale.

Requirements:

• Strong relevant programming experience in Python/Go/C++/infrastructure-as-code scripting or related to the domain.
• Experience working in Linux environments.
• Automation of building/testing with continuous integration systems.
• Strong impartial report writing optimized for the reader.
• Aptitude for planning, constructing, and executing responsibilities & duties above.
• English- C1 level.

Graphcore offers:

• Flexible working.
• Generous annual leave policy.
• Private medical insurance and health cash plan.
• Dental plan.
• Pension (matched up to 5%).
• Life assurance and income protection.
• Generous parental leave policy.
• Employee assistance programme.