Staff Engineer - Modelling Team

About Graphcore 

Graphcore is one of the world’s leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute.  

It is developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure that will unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs and power the widespread adoption of AI solutions across every industry.  

As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. Together, they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone.   

Graphcore’s teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives. A melting pot of AI research specialists, silicon designers, software engineers and systems architects, Graphcoreenjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation.  

Job Summary

Reporting to the Modelling Team Leader, the Staff Engineer is responsible for supporting the delivery of software models of the next generation platforms to allow early software development.  They will work in close conjunction with our partners, the hardware and silicon teams on upcoming changes and also with the software teams who will be using the models

The Team

This is an exciting opportunity to join an existing team at Graphcore who have already developed models for the current platform. The team will be supporting existing models and also updating the models for future platforms and also creating new models as appropriate.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Support and maintain models developed for the current platforms.
• Development of new features and models for future platforms.
• Creating designs, implementing features, unit testing implementations.
• Collaborate with members of other teams.
• Actively engage in and support Agile ways of working within the team.
• Debug issues, resolve bugs and generally improve the quality and functionality of the models.
• Support the team leader and technical leader when asked.

Candidate Profile 

Essential:

• Excellent C and C++ programming experience.
• Understanding of computer architectures.
• Experience of development in Python.
• Possess excellent written and oral communication skills, good work ethics, high sense of team-work.
• Proactive, self-driven, and committed to delivering high-quality solutions.

Desirable

• Experience of developing software models of hardware.
• Demonstrable understanding of software optimisations. 

Benefits

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