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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,  Graphcore  enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation.     The Role: We are looking to hire Post-Silicon Validation Engineers to join our collaborative, cross-functional development team validating cutting edge, high performance AI chips and platforms. You will play a critical role in supporting new product introductions and post-silicon validation.   Working within the Post-Silicon 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, and be responsible for, leading, mentoring, and providing technical guidance to other engineering team members. In this role, you can leverage your experience and industry knowledge to architect and drive implementation of continuous improvements to test infrastructure and processes.   The Post-Silicon Validation team sits within the Architecture and Validation team, we are responsible for validation of new silicon when it returns from manufacture, enabling and supporting the production SW and FW teams to bring up their software and also supporting the Silicon Characterisation team.    Responsibilities and Duties   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   Essential skills:   Strong experience in Bare metal / embedded C/C++   Good knowledge of digital ASICs Be highly motivated, a self starter, and a team player    Ability to work across teams and programming languages to find root causes of deep and complex issues   Experience of the post-silicon validation process applied in digital ASIC environments   Python, Linux   Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate with others to solve problems Excellent problem-solving, analytical & diagnostic skills       Desirable skills:   Driver level experience with one or more of the following is highly desirable:   PCIe   Ethernet   Memory technologies (LPDDR, DDR, HBM, …)   Other peripherals such as I2C, I3C, SPI, …   Good knowledge of mixed-signal buildin