Senior Framework Automation and Release Engineer

Graphcore•Austin, TX

About The Position

Graphcore is a leading innovator in Artificial Intelligence compute, developing hardware, software, and systems infrastructure to drive AI breakthroughs and widespread adoption across industries. As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is committed to enabling Artificial Super Intelligence and making its benefits accessible to all. The company fosters a culture of continuous learning and innovation, with diverse teams of AI research specialists, silicon designers, software engineers, and systems architects. The Release Engineer will be responsible for developing, automating, and maintaining the infrastructure used for building, testing, packaging, and releasing Graphcore’s hardware validation software. This role, within the Systems Engineering organization, aims to enhance engineering productivity, software quality, and release reliability through effective automation, continuous integration, and maintainable development tooling. The Test Software and Automation Team, part of the Hardware Platform department within Systems Engineering, focuses on developing and maintaining the software infrastructure, automation, and tools essential for hardware validation and test execution. They collaborate closely with framework developers, test engineers, diagnostics engineers, hardware engineers, and infrastructure partners to establish reliable and repeatable engineering workflows.

Requirements

Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Demonstrated experience developing CI/CD systems, automation infrastructure or software engineering tools.
Strong proficiency in Python and Bash for automation and tooling development.
Strong experience working with Linux systems.
Experience using CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Buildkite or comparable technologies.
Experience automating software build, test, packaging and release workflows.
Experience with Git, version-control workflows and code-review practices.
Ability to diagnose and resolve complex build, test, deployment and infrastructure issues.
Strong software engineering practices, with an emphasis on maintainability, reliability and developer experience.
Ability to evaluate technical options and select practical solutions with minimal guidance.
Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor technical information to different audiences.
Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across multiple engineering teams.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting hardware validation or embedded software development.
Experience managing Python packages and software dependencies.
Experience with Docker, containerized development environments or Kubernetes.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration-management tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
Familiarity with hardware laboratory automation environments.
Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
Familiarity with code-quality tools, static analysis and security scanning.
Experience using artifact repositories and release-management systems.
Experience supporting engineering teams distributed across multiple locations.

Responsibilities

Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting hardware validation and test framework development.
Develop automation to build, package, test and release validation software across multiple engineering environments.
Create maintainable tools for framework deployment, configuration and environment provisioning.
Improve developer productivity through reusable automation and streamlined development workflows.
Develop automated quality gates, including unit testing, integration testing, regression testing, static analysis and code-quality checks.
Manage framework versioning, artifact publishing, dependency management and release processes.
Build infrastructure that enables repeatable automated validation across local development, laboratory and validation environments.
Automate framework installation, upgrades and configuration management.
Develop dashboards and reporting for build health, regression status, release quality and pipeline performance.
Partner with framework developers and other engineers to improve software maintainability, reliability and deployment automation.
Investigate CI/CD failures, infrastructure issues and release problems, identifying practical solutions and longer-term improvements.
Review automation and tooling changes produced by colleagues, providing constructive technical feedback.
Provide technical guidance and support to team members working with automation, build and release workflows.
Contribute to larger engineering initiatives by coordinating defined areas of automation and release work.
Document automation workflows, release procedures and operational practices clearly and accurately.