About the company
Graphcore is one of the world's leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute, part of the SoftBank Group. It develops hardware, software and systems infrastructure for AI breakthroughs.
Responsibilities
- Communicate the long-term technical vision & strategy for the software architecture
- Define the processes and procedures to define, agree and maintain the software architecture
- Act as an advocate and thought leader for the long-term technical vision across the organisation
- Advocate for the user experience to ensure the software stack is easy to use
- Manage technical and project-level architectural risks
- Work closely with engineering, product, leadership, and partners to ensure alignment between business goals and architectural vision
- Inspire, grow, mentor and develop the software architecture team
- Clearly communicate trade-offs for architectural decisions with company-wide impacts
- Stay informed about trends and developments in the ML/software ecosystem
Requirements
- Proven experience in a leadership role
- Experience of working with silicon and hardware teams
- Technical expertise in the ML accelerator software space
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Collaborative mindset and ability to influence
- Pragmatic approach to decision making, aware of trade-offs and implications
- Experience in one or more of: Firmware, Drivers, ML frameworks (PyTorch, Triton, etc), Collectives, HPC, Tooling, C & C++, CPU architectures
Desirable
- Demonstrable experience in a previous architecture role
Conditions
- Competitive salary
- Flexible working, generous annual leave policy
- Private medical insurance and health cash plan, dental plan
- Pension (matched up to 5%), life assurance and income protection
- Generous parental leave policy and employee assistance programme
- Must hold the right to work in the UK; no visa sponsorship available