Validation Chief of Staff
Support strategic execution and operational coordination as the Validation Chief of Staff at Graphcore.
Posted by employer 6 days ago
First seen on Joblaze 5 days ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
What you'll build
- Coordinate execution across validation initiatives
- Drive organisational planning and operational tracking
- Improve visibility of project status and technical risks
- Support leadership reviews and validation status reporting
- Track key validation metrics and deliverables
Must have
- Strong experience working within silicon validation
- Strong understanding of hardware and software development lifecycles
- Excellent organisational and planning skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
Nice to have
- Experience within post-silicon validation
- Understanding of SoC architectures
- Experience supporting engineering leadership
- Familiarity with validation infrastructure
- Knowledge of AI accelerator systems
Practical constraints
- Travel up to 25%
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Benefits
Joblaze summary
The Validation Chief of Staff at Graphcore plays a crucial role in enhancing the effectiveness of multiple validation teams by coordinating priorities and improving operational visibility. This position requires a solid technical background in silicon validation, along with strong organizational and communication skills to manage cross-functional initiatives. It is well-suited for someone with experience in engineering environments, particularly those familiar with hardware and software development lifecycles. The role involves collaboration across geographically distributed teams, contributing to the overall efficiency of the validation organization.
Joblaze insights
Quick facts
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI/ML, Linux, Python.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Graphcore targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Validation Chief of Staff role at Graphcore.
From the original posting
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.
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 and systems architects, Graphcore enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation.
Reporting to senior leadership within Architecture and Validation, the Validation Chief of Staff will support strategic execution, operational coordination and cross-functional alignment across the validation organisation.
This role is responsible for driving organisational effectiveness across multiple validation teams, helping coordinate priorities, improve execution visibility and support delivery of key engineering milestones. The position requires strong technical understanding of silicon validation and bring-up environments combined with exceptional organisational, communication and stakeholder management skills.
The Validation Chief of Staff will partner closely with validation leadership, program management, architecture, silicon, firmware, software and systems engineering teams to improve operational efficiency, manage critical initiatives and help scale validation processes, infrastructure and team effectiveness across global sites. This role may require travel of up to 25% to support collaboration across engineering locations and program activities.
The Architecture and Validation organisation is responsible for bring-up, validation, characterization and system readiness of Graphcore silicon and platforms.
The organisation works across the full product lifecycle, supporting pre-silicon readiness, first silicon bring-up, subsystem validation, system integration and production readiness activities. Teams collaborate closely with architecture, hardware, firmware, software and systems engineering groups to deliver high-quality AI compute products.
The Validation Chief of Staff role operates across multiple validation disciplines and teams, helping coordinate activities, improve communication flows and support operational execution across geographically distributed engineering organisations.
USA Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working and a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, wellbeing and financial future. Our benefits include medical, dental and vision coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), disability and life insurance, a 401(k) retirement plan, commuter benefits, wellness services and an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP). We welcome people of different backgrounds and experiences; we're 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.
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