QA Test Engineer, Graphcore
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2+ days a week in office
Advanced AI systems and services
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Advanced AI systems and services
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make machine learning faster, easier and more intelligent.
Role
Who you are
- Strong relevant programming experience Python/Go/C++/infrastructure-as-code scripting or related to the domain
- Experience working in Linux environments
- Automation of building/testing with continuous integration systems
- Strong impartial report writing optimised for the reader
- Aptitude for planning, constructing, and executing responsibilities & duties above
Desirable
- Domain experience of the products under test: Containerisation (e.g. Docker), Virtualisation and Provisioning, Workload and job scheduling (e.g. Kubernetes, Ray) on high core-count machines and rack-scale installations
- 5+ years experience in quality assurance/testing teams
- Experience with the Atlassian suite and CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins; GitHub or GitLab actions
What the job involves
- We need an engineer to join our Platform Quality Assurance group
- You will creatively exercise our product to provide feedback to the engineering delivery and product management teams
- This helps them make decisions about engineering effort and the trajectory of the product
- Working in a component Quality Assurance team means you will have a close working relationship with the relevant development teams; or working in the integration Quality Assurance team means you will be exercising the aggregated and composed system at a much larger scale with a bias towards informing the product management team
- You will provide valuable observations and measurements of the product, looking beyond the natural focus of the delivery and product teams, painting a comprehensive behavioural picture of the product in typical and atypical scenarios
- Planning, constructing, and executing tests and reports optimised for the different decision-making readers including delivery engineering and the product management teams
- Organising and maintaining a repository of results & collaboration with the QA team
- Developing or refining your expertise in the domain area of the product component or the system in aggregate and at scale
- Specific domains include Workload Management (Kubernetes, Ray, and so on); Cloud Development (SC/NH help here!); Management & Observability (SS/RH help here!)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Traditional hardware, mainly GPUs, used for training these models, comes at a high cost, both financially and environmentally, producing millions of dollars in expenses and hundreds of tons of greenhouse gases. In response, Graphcore is developing accelerator chips designed to expedite AI system training while significantly reducing power consumption.
AI accelerators like those crafted by Graphcore specialise in enhancing specific AI applications, such as artificial neural networks, deep learning, and machine learning. Utilising multicore designs and prioritising low-precision arithmetic or in-memory computing, these accelerators elevate the performance of large AI algorithms, achieving breakthrough results in natural language processing and computer vision.
Graphcore has ambitious plans to creat an AI supercomputer set to debut in 2024, aiming to be one of the most powerful in its class. The company is actively seeking strategic partnerships to bring this vision to fruition, signaling its commitment to shaping the future of AI computing.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2020
$222m
SERIES E
Feb 2020
$150m
SERIES D
Total funding: $682m
Company benefits
- Work-Life Balance: We believe you should have a good work-life balance. Everyone's situation is different, so we offer flexible working arrangements and start and finish times, allowing you to choose when to work from home or come into the office
- Wellbeing: We want to ensure that our employees have the resources and support they need to prioritise their health and wellbeing
- Healthcare: We offer Private Medical Insurance (PMI) to our employees to help them take care of their health and that of their loved ones
- Progression: We prioritise learning and development as an integral part of our culture at Graphcore. Our Talent Development team is dedicated to equipping all our employees with the necessary tools, resources, and support to enhance their skills and reach their full potential in their careers
- Pension: We believe that our employees deserve the best when it comes to planning for their future
- Income Protection: Graphcore understands that unforeseen circumstances can happen, and we want to ensure our employees have the necessary financial security in place
Company HQ
Old City, Bristol, UK
Leadership
Nigel Toon
(CEO)Previously the President and CEO at picoChip Designs (processors for telecoms). As well as the VP and GM of Europe at Altera (semiconductors, merged with Intel).
Simon Knowles
(CTO)Founded two successful semiconductor companies, Element14 and Icera, for a combined value of over $1 billion.
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