Graphcore Director of Post-Silicon Validation at Graphcore leading validation of AI chips and platforms. Manage a team delivering post-silicon validation across silicon, firmware, and platform levels.
Responsibilities
Working within the Validation team, you will be involved with bringing first silicon to life, functionally validating it and working closely with many other teams to help it become a fully characterised and working product, reporting project status/progress to program management on a regular basis. You will have the opportunity to provide technical guidance to other engineering team members. In this role, you can leverage our experience and industry knowledge to architect and drive implementation of continuous improvements to test infrastructure and processes.
The Post-Silicon Bringup team sits within the Architecture and Validation team, we are responsible for bringup and validation of new silicon when it returns from manufacture, enabling and supporting the production SW and FW teams to bring up their software and supporting the Silicon Characterisation team.
Plan, design, develop and debug silicon validation tests in bare metal C/C++ on FPGA/Emulator prior to first silicon
Deploy silicon validation tests on first silicon and debugging them
Develop automated test framework and regression test suites in Python to optimize validation efficiency
Collaborate closely with engineers from many other disciplines on a variety of topics
Work with Validation and Production Test engineering peers to implement best practices and continuous improvements to test methodologies
Analyse test results, identify and debug failures/defects
Contribute to shared test and validation infrastructure
Provide feedback to architects
Qualification
Excellent problem-solving10+ years experienceExperience building and leadingMemory technologies (LPDDROther peripherals such as I2CExperience of Arm CPUsExperience of AMBA protocols
Required
Understanding of ML applications and their workloads
A self-starter who can apply independent judgement
A team player able to lead and support colleagues with difficult concepts
