Senior Execution and Quality Validation Engineer

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 Reporting to the Validation leadership team, the Senior Execution and Quality Validation Engineer will be responsible for executing validation plans, developing automation solutions, and improving product quality across Graphcore silicon and platform technologies. Working closely with architecture, design, verification, firmware, software, systems engineering, and validation teams, the successful candidate will contribute to scalable validation methodologies, improve test coverage and execution efficiency, and help ensure products meet high standards of functionality, reliability, and performance before customer deployment. The role requires strong technical skills, attention to detail, and a passion for improving validation quality through effective execution, automation, and continuous improvement. The Team The Validation Execution and Quality team sits within the Validation organisation and is responsible for improving validation effectiveness, test execution efficiency, product quality, and release readiness across Graphcore silicon and platform products. The team develops validation methodologies, automation frameworks, test execution infrastructure, and quality processes that enable engineering teams to execute validation activities at scale. Working closely with validation, architecture, firmware, software, systems, and design teams, the group helps ensure products are thoroughly validated before release. Responsibilities and Duties Execute validation strategies for silicon, subsystem, and platform technologies across functional, performance, reliability, and stress testing Plan, optimize, verify, and test critical electronic systems, including silicon, FPGA-based platforms, test systems, and associated validation infrastructure Develop and execute validation plans to ensure products meet quality, reliability, and performance objectives Create detailed test plans from high-level validation requirements and test cases, ensuring timely execution and high-quality results Design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks that enable efficient execution of test plans, regression suites, and validation activities Support silicon and platform validation activities from bring-up through product readiness Analyse validation results and system behaviour to identify issues and opportunities for improvement Collaborate with architecture, design, verification, firmware, software, systems engineering, and validation teams to implement new validation requirements and improve test coverage Integrate new validation capabilities and test solutions into existing validation infrastructure to improve productivity, quality, and execution efficiency Develop automated data collection, analysis, and reporting solutions to improve engineering visibility and decision-making Evaluate design features to identify functional, compatibility, integration, and reliability risks Investigate validation failures using structured debug and root-cause analysis methodologies Contribute to improvements in validation techniques, workflows, automation, and engineering processes Support power, performance, a