Staff Engineering Program Support

Graphcore•Milpitas, CA

About The Position

The Staff Engineering Coordination Support role coordinates engineering activities across multiple teams, ensuring effective planning, execution tracking, communication, and operational alignment. Reporting to an Engineering leader, the role serves as a central point of coordination for engineering programmes and initiatives, helping teams manage priorities, dependencies, risks, and delivery commitments while supporting collaboration across the organisation. The Engineering Coordination team supports engineering functions across Graphcore. It works with engineering leaders, technical specialists, project stakeholders, and business partners to improve visibility, facilitate communication, coordinate planning, and enable successful delivery of engineering objectives. The team provides operational support across projects, teams, and locations.

Requirements

Experience coordinating complex technical, engineering, programme, or operational activities.
Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
Experience tracking actions, risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery milestones.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to engage a wide range of stakeholders.
Ability to influence outcomes and drive progress without direct authority.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
Experience using project management, planning, reporting, or collaboration tools.
Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to build effective working relationships.
Proactive approach to identifying improvements and resolving coordination challenges.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting engineering, software, hardware, semiconductor, or technology-focused organizations.
Knowledge of project, programme, or portfolio management methodologies.
Experience creating executive-level reporting and operational dashboards.
Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or similar delivery frameworks.
Experience coordinating activities across international or distributed teams.
Understanding of engineering product development lifecycles.

Responsibilities

Coordinate engineering planning activities, schedules, milestones, and deliverables across multiple teams.
Track progress against agreed plans and provide regular status updates to stakeholders.
Identify, monitor, and help manage project dependencies, risks, issues, and actions.
Facilitate engineering meetings, reviews, planning sessions, and cross-functional coordination activities.
Maintain project documentation, reporting dashboards, action logs, and operational records.
Support engineering leaders with resource planning, prioritization activities, and workload visibility.
Drive follow-up actions to ensure commitments are completed and blockers are escalated appropriately.
Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to improve communication and information flow.
Assist in implementing and continuously improving engineering processes, tools, and ways of working.
Produce clear and concise reports, presentations, and communications for engineering and business audiences.
Coordinate activities across geographically distributed teams to support efficient execution.
Contribute to operational excellence initiatives that improve predictability, efficiency, and delivery outcomes.