Senior Execution and Quality Validation Engineer
Graphcore•3h ago
Bengaluru, IndiaOnsiteFull-timeSenior Level5+ yrs exp
- 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
- 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
- improving product quality across Graphcore silicon and platform technologies.
- Working closely with architecture, design, verification, firmware, software, systems engineering
- validation teams, the successful candidate will contribute to scalable validation methodologies, improve test coverage and execution efficiency
- help ensure products meet high standards of functionality, reliability
- 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
- release readiness across Graphcore silicon and platform products.
- The team develops validation methodologies, automation frameworks, test execution infrastructure
- quality processes that enable engineering teams to execute validation activities at scale. Working closely with validation, architecture, firmware, software, systems
- 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, and system-level validation activities through development of scalable validation infrastructure and methodologies
- Contribute to validation best practices, documentation, and engineering standards
- Act as a quality-focused validation engineer, helping identify and resolve issues before products reach customers
- Candidate Profile
- Essential:
- Experience in silicon validation, hardware validation, system validation, or related engineering disciplines
- Strong understanding of validation methodologies, test planning, test execution, and quality processes
- Experience developing automation frameworks for validation, regression execution, and test orchestration
- Strong Python programming skills for automation, data analysis, and infrastructure development
- Strong understanding of hardware systems, silicon bring-up, and validation workflows
- Experience translating high-level requirements into structured validation plans and test cases
- Experience analysing validation results and participating in root-cause investigations for complex technical issues
- Understanding of validation coverage, quality metrics, release readiness criteria, and risk assessment methodologies
- Experience collaborating across architecture, design, verification, firmware, software, systems, and validation teams
- Excellent analytical, diagnostic, and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary engineering teams
- Desirable
- Experience with post-silicon bring-up and system integration activities
- Experience developing regression systems and automated test execution infrastructure
- Experience with FPGA-based validation environments
- Experience automating laboratory equipment and validation environments
- Familiarity with CI/CD systems and continuous testing methodologies
- Experience developing dashboards, reporting systems, or engineering analytics tools
- Experience with C, C++, or embedded software development
- Experience working on AI accelerator, high-performance compute, or semiconductor products
- Experience contributing to validation standards, quality metrics, and engineering best practices
Required skills
Pythonautomationvalidationhardware validationsystem validationtest planningtest executiondata analysis