System Software Engineer

At Graphcore, we’re building the future of AI compute. We’re a team of semiconductor, software and AI experts, with deep experience in creating the complete AI compute stack - from silicon and software to infrastructure at datacenter scale. As part of the SoftBank Group, backed by significant long-term investment, we are delivering key technology into the fast-growing SoftBank AI ecosystem. Graphcore is expanding its teams around the world to solve tough problems and impact the future of artificial intelligence.

Essential:

• Industry experience in software development using programming languages such as C/C++
• Familiar with OS Kernel and Device Driver development and deployment on Linux or Windows systems
• Good understanding of lower-level software stack and interactions with the hardware layer
• Possess effective problem-solving skills, familiar with some debug and performance analysis tools and techniques
• Experience with one or more of the following: PCIe, CPU, device drivers, SoC, firmware, and hardware/software integration

Desirable:

• Experience developing firmware or drivers for GPUs or other accelerators
• Experience working on upstreaming of kernel code / contributing to Linux kernel
• Exposure to integration with data centre / cloud service operations – for example integration with Kubernetes or OpenStack

• Design, implement, test and document OS Kernel and Device Driver software at the highest standard using C/C++/Python programming languages
• Participate in agile development – working as part of a scrum team to develop the right software at pace
• Communicate effectively and contribute regularly to technical discussions with peers in software and hardware engineering, architects and other stakeholders
• Hands-on during key product development phases involving close working with hardware and silicon engineering groups to enable fast time to market delivery