Tech Director, Post Silicon Validation
Graphcore
About this role
The SoC Validation Lead at Graphcore is responsible for enabling pre-production software to run reliably on new silicon, ensuring quality, reliability, and functionality for production deployment. The role involves leading post-silicon validation across hardware, firmware, and platform levels, with a focus on debugging, collaboration, and validation automation.
Skills
Qualifications
About Graphcore
graphcore.aiGraphcore is a semiconductor and systems company that designs the Intelligence Processing Unit (IPU), a processor architecture purpose-built for machine intelligence to accelerate machine learning and AI workloads. It offers IPU-based servers and cloud access together with the Poplar software stack, compilers and developer tools to run training and inference at scale and integrate with common ML frameworks. Graphcore’s platform targets researchers and enterprises that need higher performance, efficiency and scalability for large models and intelligent applications across cloud and on‑prem deployments.
Recent company news
HPCwireSoftBank Expands AI Portfolio with Graphcore Acquisition
2 weeks ago
SiftedGraphcore cofounder exits company one year on from SoftBank acquisition
Aug 26, 2025
Built In AustinGraphcore
1 month ago
Yahoo FinanceGraphcore - a SoftBank Group company - to invest £1bn in India, creating 500 semiconductor jobs
Oct 9, 2025
Bloomberg.comSoftBank’s Graphcore Plans $1.3 Billion Chip Investment in India
Oct 9, 2025
About Graphcore
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Leadership Team
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
Unlock Company Insights
View leadership team, funding history,
and employee contacts for Graphcore.
More jobs at Graphcore
Similar Jobs
Pre and Post Silicon Validation Engineer
Insilico
Hardware & Silicon Validation Principal Engineer
Marvell Technology
Sr. Staff Engineer, Post-Silicon Validation
Tenstorrent
Spring 2023 Post Silicon Validation Engineer Co-Op/ Intern
Shelby County Government of Tennessee
Embedded Systems Engineer – Post-Silicon Validation (NPU)
Intel
Post-Silicon Validation and Debug Engineer
Intel