Principal Execution & QA Validation Engineer

About the role

Reporting to the Validation leadership team, the Principal Execution and Quality Validation Engineer will be responsible for driving validation execution, automation, product quality, and release readiness across Graphcore silicon and platform technologies. The role combines deep expertise in hardware validation, test automation, and quality engineering with a strong focus on execution excellence.

What you'll do

• Define and drive validation strategies for complex silicon, subsystem, and platform technologies, ensuring comprehensive coverage across functional, performance
• Leverage advanced hardware knowledge to plan, optimize, verify, and test critical electronic systems, including silicon, FPGA-based platforms, test systems
• Develop and execute validation plans that ensure products meet quality, reliability, and performance objectives before release
• Create detailed test plans from high-level validation requirements and test cases, ensuring timely execution and high-fidelity results
• Design, develop, and maintain automation frameworks that enable rapid execution of test plans, regression suites, and validation activities

What you need

• Test cases
• Python
• Performance testing
• FPGA
• Test automation
• Root cause analysis
• Any graduate

Good to have

• CI/CD
• C++
• C