Senior Systems Software Engineer

Job Description

Graphcore is seeking a Senior Systems Software QA Engineer to join their System Software Group in Bristol, UK. The company is focused on developing next-generation AI compute systems. This role involves designing and delivering software validation and quality assurance solutions for firmware, kernel, and baseboard management control modules.He/She will be responsible for test design and development, maintaining continuous integration, and working closely with development teams to support test-driven development. The Senior Staff System Software QA engineer will also provide technical leadership, train junior team members, and liaise with stakeholders to gather requirements and develop acceptance tests.Responsibilities:

• Test design and development for Firmware, Kernel and Baseboard Management Control modules.
• Maintaining and Enhancing Continuous Integration against Simulations, Emulations and Physical Hardware.
• Working closely with all System Software development teams supporting a culture of Test-Driven Development.
• Technical leadership on various sub-module within different projects
• Training new and/or junior team members.
• Liaising with stakeholders to gather requirements and developing acceptance tests for both internal and external customers.

Requirements:

• Test design and development experience for Firmware and/or Linux kernel.
• Understanding of OS kernel and device driver primitives with experience in Linux or similar systems.
• Experience in performance and latency measurements for a low-level software stack.
• Knowledge of virtualisation and hypervisor concepts.
• Working experience in one or more of these: OpenBMC, Firmware, Kernel Internals, Low level Security testing.
• Strong Proficiency in: C or C++ and scripting languages such as Python.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, good work ethics, high sense of teamwork.

Benefits:

• 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