Technical Program Manager

About Us

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, Graphcore enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation. 

Job Summary 

As a Senior Technical Project Manager focussed on Platform you will play a key role in bridging the technical and management domains of teams responsible for the planning and delivery of solutions for workload management, systems management & observability, integrated hardware/software quality assurance and cloud development.

You will collaborate with highly technical engineering leads, and multi-functional teams across systems, software, operations, and product to support the flawless delivery of our fully integrated hardware and software AI systems.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Serve as the primary liaison for the technical teams in multi-functional discussions, ensuring alignment on project requirements.

• Support the planning, development and management of project schedules and deliverables to achieve programme objectives on schedule.
• Ensure each team’s programme deliverables satisfy requirements and are fulfilled by the engineering work.
• Monitor and track dependencies both within Platform and with other programme teams, communicating any near-term inputs for the individual team backlogs.

• Represent Platform in programme management syncs and reviews. Efficiently aid teams’ navigation of scope changes to minimize impacts on project timelines and outcomes.

• Work with Release Management and Engineering teams to minimise time-to-delivery and remove blockers for developing at scale.
• High-level technical understanding of the software, QA, cloud development solutions so that you can contribute meaningfully to priority discussions.

• Proactively identify risks and dependencies, support the teams’ development of mitigation strategies, and inform/escalate issues.
• Provide regular updates on program status, highlighting challenges and proposing solutions to internal partners, facilitating informed decision-making.

• Facilitate process for internal compute resource allocations among engineering teams.

• Continually improve processes, optimize workflow, and maintain the highest quality levels.

Skills and Experience

Essential:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant subject or equivalent experience.
• Experience of working in programs with a strong software and hardware mix.
• Track record of working with Agile project development practices.
• Excellent communicator, translating complex situations into plain narrative.
• Outstanding facilitator to help resolve complex issues.
• Great organiser of people, processes, and product plans.
• Experience working with Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence) to represent complex work hierarchies and dependencies.
• An ability to work independently without daily oversight in projects that can rapidly evolve and change.
• A demonstrable understanding and application of knowledge and skills managing dependencies, priorities, risks, issues, impacts and constraints.
• A proven track record of delivering technical output, perhaps as an individual contributor, manager or project manager, especially in software development.

Desirable:

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience including at least 3 years in a technical program management role, ideally within multi-functional teams.
• Understanding of AI or HPC systems and how each component interacts with the system.
• Knowledge of data centre design, infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Experience working with satellite teams.

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.

Sponsorship

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.