Graphcore is hiring

Senior Staff System Software Engineer

Cambridge, United KingdomSemiconductor Manufacturing 501-1000 Employees

5 Facts You Should Know About Graphcore

Acquired by SoftBank July 2024 — Wholly-owned SoftBank subsidiary; ~$500-600M deal price per FT/TechCrunch coverage.

$457M SoftBank capital injection (April 2026) — Single-share issuance per Graphcore filings; funds next-gen chip development.

£1B Bengaluru AI campus announced — Hiring hundreds across AI, silicon, software, systems engineering.

Izanagi next-gen IPU — IPU parallel processing + Ampere ARM server CPU; targets Stargate datacenters in US + Japan in 2026.

Bow IPU + Isambard-AI legacy — World's first wafer-on-wafer AI chip; powers UK's largest AI supercomputer for research.

The Role

Senior Staff System Software Engineer

Design, implement, test OS Kernel and Device Drivers for cutting-edge AI hardware.
Develop low-level drivers — integrating software with silicon/hardware for AI products.
Maximize performance and utility for cutting-edge AI products — enabling breakthroughs.

Core Skills

C/C++PythonLinuxWindowsPCIeCUDAOpenCLKubernetesOpenStack

Core Competencies

OS Kernel developmentDevice Driver developmentlow-level software stackhardware/software integrationCPU architectureSoC designfirmware developmentdebug and performance analysisagile/scrum developmentupstreaming kernel code to Linux

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