Post Silicon Validation Engineer
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About Graphcore
Graphcoreis one of the worlds 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 GroupGraphcoreis a member of an elite family of companies responsible for some of the worlds most transformative technologies. Together they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone.
Graphcoresteams 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 architectsGraphcoreenjoys 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 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 building blocks such as PLLs high speed PHYs and IC control/communication protocols is highly desirable
- Experience of Arm CPUs System IPand debug tools
- Experience of AMBA protocols
- Understanding of ML applications and their workloads
- Experience in Characterization Failure Analysis Test Development Statistical analysis and Customer Support
Benefits:
In addition to a competitive salary Graphcore offers flexible working a generous annual leave policy private medical insurance and health cash plan a dental plan pension (matched up to 5%) life assurance and income protection. We have a generous parental leave policy and an employee assistance programme (which includes health mental wellbeing and bereavement support). We offer a range of healthy food and snacks at our central Bristol office and have our own barista bar! We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; were committed to building an inclusive work environment that makes Graphcore a great home for everyone. We offer an equal opportunity process and understand that there are visible and invisible differences in all of us. We can provide a flexible approach to interview and encourage you to chat to us if you require any reasonable adjustments.
Required Experience:
IC
