Graphcore
Artificial Intelligence
AIPlatformArchitect
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“AI Platform Architect at Graphcore. Skills: AI Platform Architecture, Distributed AI Workloads, Hardware-Software Co-design. Design holistic architecture. Influence AI workload scheduling”
What You'll Achieve.
ensure our AI research and deployment teams have a flawless, frictionless, and extraordinarily powerful platform
Industry & Context.
eliminate system-level bottlenecks
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
systems engineering, cloud architecture, HPC, hardware engineering, distributed AI frameworks, data parallelism, tensor parallelism, pipeline parallelism, LLM architectures, system-level bottlenecks, data pathways, container orchestration platforms, infrastructure-as-code, GPU-heavy bare-metal, cloud environments, AI researchers, data scientists, low-level hardware, CPU, memory, storage, GPU, network engineers, model requirements, infrastructure specifications, Platform engineering requirement specifications
Nice to Have
Rack scale GPU AI Platforms experience, Python, JSON, Neural engine silicon solutions
What You'll Do.
Design holistic architecture
Influence AI workload scheduling
Manage distributed training jobs
Profile system-level bottlenecks
Tune deep learning frameworks
Work closely with engineering
Influence platform design
Drive technical vision
Collaborate with subject matter experts
Define requirements specifications
Communicate and present
Define board routing guidelines
Define thermal targets
Define feeds and speeds
Perform market competitive analysis
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work closely with software, firmware, and OS engineering; Collaborate closely with subject matter experts; Communicate and present to internal and external silicon teams; Bridge the gap between AI researchers/data scientists and low-level hardware/CPU/memory/storage/GPU/network engineers
Communication Scope
Ability to communicate and present to internal and external silicon teams
Full Job Description
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 and systems architects, Graphcore enjoys a culture of continuous learning and constant innovation. Job Summary We are seeking for a visionary AI Platform Architect to design and oversee the comprehensive infrastructure stack that powers our most demanding distributed AI workloads. Moving beyond individual hardware components, this role acts as the unifying technical authority across hardware, software, compute, network, and storage. You will be responsible for architecting a cohesive, AI rack scale platform optimized for trillion-parameter LLM training and high-throughput inference. By orchestrating everything from advanced clustering and distributed training frameworks down to the physical layer—spanning PCIe Gen 5/6 pathways, NVMe storage topologies, and RDMA fabrics—you will ensure our AI research and deployment teams have a flawless, frictionless, and extraordinarily powerful platform at their disposal. Responsibilities and Duties End-to-End Platform Architecture: Define the holistic architecture for highly clustered AI environments, ensuring zero-bottleneck data flow between parallel storage systems, AI compute nodes, and ultra-high-bandwidth network fabrics. Workload Orchestration: Influence the strategy for AI worklo
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