Staff System Software Engineer

Job Summary

As a member of the drivers and utilities team you will contribute to the planning, design,   implementation   and testing of   low level   kernel drivers and user space   driver library   code. You will be part of one of the   two   teams in the system software department   (the firmware team being the other one)   and report to the drivers and utilities team   manager .   

The Team

The   drivers and utilities team   forms   part of the system software group – working closely with both software engineers developing our Poplar SDK and with silicon and hardware engineers developing   Graphcore’s   IPU solution.   The drivers and utilities team develop   custom   control software on the host in kernel and user space. Our solutions enable our customers to get maximum performance and utility for our   cutting-edge   products.    

Responsibilities and Duties

Design, implement, test and document OS Kernel and Device Driver software at the highest standard using C/C++/Python programming languages

Participate in agile development – working as part of a scrum team to develop the right software at pace

Communicate effectively and contribute regularly to technical discussions with your peers in software and hardware engineering, with architects and other stakeholders

Hands-on during key product development phases involving close working with hardware and silicon engineering groups to enable fast time to market delivery

Candidate Profile

Essential:

Proven industry experience in software development using programming languages such as C/C++/Python

OS Kernel and Device Driver development and deployment experience in Linux or Windows systems

Good understanding of lower-level software stack and interactions with the hardware layer

Possess effective problem-solving skills, familiar with a full suite of debug and performance analysis tools and techniques

Experience with one or more of the following: PCIe, CPU, device drivers, SoC, firmware, and hardware/software integration

Proactive in obtaining engineering or management input to solve issues

Motivated to schedule own workload

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, work well within a multinational team and with multinational customers. Excellent cultural awareness is essential.  

Desirable

Experience developing firmware or drivers for GPUs. 

Knowledge of CUDA or OpenCL  

Experience working on upstreaming of kernel code / contributing to Linux kernel.

Exposure to integration with data centre / cloud service operations – for example integration with Kubernetes or open stack.  

Benefits

In addition to a competitive salary, Graphcore offers flexible working, a generous annual leave policy, private medical insurance and health cash plan, a dental plan, pension (matched up to 5%), life assurance and income protection. We have a generous parental leave policy and an employee assistance programme (which includes health, mental wellbeing, and bereavement support). We offer a range of healthy food and snacks at our central Bristol office and have our own barista bar! 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.

 

Applicants for this position must hold the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately at this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or support for visa applications

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