Posted May 22, 2026
Applicants for this role should have strong experience designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality software systems. The role focuses on testing and validating a complex machine learning software stack, with particular emphasis on software architecture, automation, and engineering best practices. The ideal candidate is an experienced software engineer who values code quality, testability, and long-term maintainability, and enjoys building systems that other engineers rely on. This person will be comfortable working across large codebases, contributing to CI/CD infrastructure, and shaping technical direction through thoughtful design and mentoring in a technically demanding environment spanning ML frameworks, infrastructure, and AI accelerator hardware
The ML QA team is composed of highly skilled software engineers with a strong focus on automation, software quality, and data-driven validation. The team works closely with industry-standard machine learning frameworks and models, contributing to upstream open-source projects and collaborating across the wider software organization. Operating in a fast-paced environment, the team plays a critical role in ensuring reliability, performance, and maintainability across the ML software stack, helping to deliver robust and high-quality products to customers. ## Responsibilities and Duties
Essential:
Experience in production-quality software engineering roles. - Strong software design and architecture skills, with experience working on large or complex systems. - Strong proficiency in Python, including experience building and maintaining production codebases. - Solid experience with CI/CD systems and automated testing (preferably GitHub-based workflows). - Experience working in Linux environments. - Familiarity with C or C++, with the ability to read, debug, and reason about low-level code when needed. - Proven ability to mentor junior engineers and influence engineering practices within a team. - Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive, self-directed approach to work. - Bachelor/Master's/PhD or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Maths, Machine Learning, Data Science, or related field. Desirable
Exposure to machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, Triton, TensorFlow
Experience with distributed workload management systems such as Kubernetes, VLLM, Keras or MLOps pipelines
Experience working with hardware simulators or emulators (e.g. QEMU). - Experience developing for or working with FPGA-based systems. - Experience with people management or mentoring
In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working, a generous annual leave policy, private medical insurance and 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 interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments. Applicants for this position must hold the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately at this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or support for visa applications
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